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- Norquist: McCain Fiscal Policies Positive for GP
- Republicans who broke ranks taste retaliation
- Clallam Republicans suspend Chapman from party support
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- GP kicks county commissioner out of party
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… – Byrd Hospitalized After Fall – Politics | Republican…
FXNews – Feb 26, 2008
Robert Byrd of West Virginia was hospitalized Tuesday after complaining of back pain following a fall at his home his spokesman said. Byrd 90 the Democratic chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee and the longest-serving senator in history was staying overnight at Walter Reed Army Medical Center for observation said spokesman Jesse Jacobs. It was not immediately clear whether he had suffered broken bones. Jacobs said Byrd fell at his Virginia home Monday night. He came to his office Tuesday and was on the Senate floor to vote for an Indian health bill.
Norquist: McCain Fiscal Policies Positive for GP
NPR – Feb 26, 2008
But immigration is also a key to success for Republicans Norquist says. “To go from ’secure the border’ which is a rational position to ‘deport people’ is to lose the next generation [of Hispanics] and to lose power in America” Norquist says. “The Republican Party needs to focus on dealing with the immigration issue in a way that does not antagonize Hispanic voters or damage the economy” he adds. “And they need to focus on American domestic politics while maintaining a strong position in terms of national defense. They need to focus on the tax-and-spending issues.
Republicans who broke ranks taste retaliation
Minneapolis Star-Tribune – Minneapolis Star Tribune – Feb 26, 2008
"There are a lot of members of my caucus who don’t have confidence in following someone who wasn’t willing to follow me on the floor. It doesn’t mean that I’m taking an ax to them or anything of that sort" Seifert said. Minnesota Republican Party Chairman Ron Carey said that the party will support the endorsed party candidates but that he expects contentious conventions in the House districts whose members strayed. "These are people who are good Republicans who left the reservation on this issue" he said. "This was a critical watershed issue this is the largest tax increase in the history of the state of Minnesota. To have Republicans not stand against the largest tax increase that’s really baffling. It should have been an easy vote for these Republicans to have taken.
Clallam Republicans suspend Chapman from party support
Peninsula Daily – Feb 26, 2008
In a letter dated Feb. 19 that Chapman said he received Saturday the county GP’s executive board cited Chapman’s endorsement of Democratic Commissioner Steve Tharinger over Bob Forde in the general election last Nov. By doing so Chapman broke the party’s bylaws and so was “barred from holding yourself as a Republican with any standing” for two years of probation the letter said… Blaylock Lois Perry Robert Philpott Will Gormley and Maggie Roth. A state Republican Party spokesman referred questions to Sue Forde.
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Indianapolis Star – Feb 26, 2008
Party mirrorIn some ways said Brian Vargus a political scientist at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis Elrod seems to epitomize the struggle gripping the Republican Party the same struggle evident in the Republican presidential nominating process. John McCain is capturing votes but has yet to be embraced by Christian conservatives. “The Republican Party is undergoing significant tensions within itself” Vargus said. “It is kind of hard to characterize them one way or another. “The irony with Elrod’s opposition to the marriage amendment is that Elrod said his position is rooted in a basic Christian principle. “I think marriage is a sacrament. That means it is something ordained by God.
GP kicks county commissioner out of party
KNP.CM 1450 – Feb 26, 2008
G–P officials say Chapman broke party by-laws in endorsing Democrat Steve Tharinger in last fall’s county commissioners’ race. Clallam County Republican Party Vice-Chairman David Cummins says the party’s executive board voted unanimously to enforce the by-laws at its meeting on February 18th yet lauded Chapman for his seven and a half years in holding the Republican banner as a county commissioner. Chapman yesterday said he knew some of the party leaders were unhappy with him but felt free speech should trump party rules. Cummins says the Party’s Central Committee debated for about 45 minutes on the issue in 2 consecutive monthly meetings on how to handle the Chapman situation.
… Conservatives GP Longshot Depending n Those Who Control…
CBS News – Feb 26, 2008
Because the Texas Republican Party is controlled by social and religious conservatives who usually drive primary voting the race between Huckabee and McCain could be closer than in other big states. Polls have shown McCain ahead in Texas but not always by large margins. A CNN-pinion Research Corp. poll conducted over the weekend showed McCain ahead in Texas with 56 percent to Huckabee’s 31 percent. The GP bloc – in control since the 1990s and creator of the state party’s staunchly conservative platform on issues from abortion to foreign policy – also has been at odds with Republican Gov.
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