Rep. Mark Kennedy (R-MN), who's running to replace retiring Sen. Mark Dayton (D-MN), is coming under some heat these days for scrubbing news articles of negative comments. The AP's Margita Lohn reports that the Kennedy campaign is backing away from the quesitonable practice.

A congressman's campaign Web site, under fire for deleting negative comments from news stories before posting them, will now link viewers to the full text of the articles, a spokeswoman said Wednesday.

Some of the partial versions might still remain on the site, though, said Heidi Frederickson, a campaign spokeswoman for Republican U.S. Rep. Mark Kennedy (news, bio, voting record), who is running for an open Senate seat.

Wednesday morning, a day after the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee accused Kennedy of selective editing to make himself look better, parts of news articles from The Associated Press, the Star Tribune of Minneapolis, and the New York Times were still on site.

Some of the stories had been removed from the "News" section of http://www.markkennedy06.com but could still be found under "Issues."

Frederickson, who runs the site and chose the excerpts, said the flap over the articles was politically motivated.