Less than a month after I celebrated the exit of process-story-writing Jim VandeHei, in comes someone (potentially) worse.

AP spokesman John Stokes confirms. “John Solomon is departing at year’s end for the Washington Post,” he wrote to us in an email that reproduces verbatim the memo we posted above.

In case, you don’t know/remember John Solomon, he was the AP reporter that wrote the story about Harry Reid’s boxing tickets. You know, the story where Reid followed the law, McCain broke the law (well, tried to), Reid voted against the wishes of his supposed donors, and yet Solomon decides to write a hit peice about Reid? Oh, and Solomon was also the one who tried to parlay Reid’s transfer of his land to a LLC (which he also controlled) as something nefarious.