Argus Leader excerpt:
State senators voted moments ago to censure Sen. Dan Sutton for his behavior with a teenager who served as a legislative page last year.
The vote was 32-2 in favor of the censure. Voting against censure were Sens. Jerry Apa, R-Lead, and Bill Napoli, R-Rapid City.
"It's a relief," Sutton said shortly after the vote.
An earlier vote to expel him from the Legislature needed 24 votes to pass, but failed when only 14 senators voted for expulsion.
Sutton, a Democrat from Flandreau, was the subject of an investigation by a nine-member Senate committee last week.
The censure is an official reprimand. Sutton will not lose any of his privileges as a senator.
Readers of the Argus Leader are almost evenly split regarding Dan Sutton:
(screen shot taken at 4:30 p.m., 1/31/07)
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