Chicago GP markets self as the anti-Blago party
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- Chicago GP markets self as the anti-Blago party
- Moderate Republicans may be in big demand in Senate
- Parkinson takes himself out of governor picture
- The City Boss Becomes the Country Boss
- Public service in Driehaus’ blood
- FREDERICK Md. (AP) -
Chicago GP markets self as the anti-Blago party
The Swamp – Tribune’s Washington Bureau DC
Use the suffering of others to advance yourself. This time it’s the Chicago Republican Party — yes there is one — seeking to capitalize on the misfortune of Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich who is accused of trying to peddle Barack bama’s former Senate seat to the highest bidder. The local party sent out an email invite recently to “join the party for the post-Blagojevich era. But being Republicans they can’t help themselves. This isn’t an all-comers call though you’d think the local Republicans who hold exactly one of 50 seats on the city council would take help from wherever they could get it.
Moderate Republicans may be in big demand in Senate
Los Angeles Times CA
bama’s choice for secretary of Transportation — Ray LaHood of Illinois — was a moderate GP leader in the House until he retired this year. But if recent elections are any guide being a moderate — one who supports abortion rights for example opposed the war in Iraq or supported labor unions — is hazardous to a Republican’s political health. Swing voters have been alienated by President Bush’s policies and perceptions that the Republican Party is dominated by extremists. The litany of Republican lawmakers who lost reelection over the last few years includes such centrists as Rep. Christopher Shays (R-Conn.
Parkinson takes himself out of governor picture
Kansas City Star M
Mark Parkinson will not run for governor in 2010 he said Friday. Parkinson — a former state Republican Party Chair who defected to the Democrats to run alongside Gov. Kathleen Sebelius in 2006 – said in an emailed announcement that he would not seek any elected office in 2010.
The City Boss Becomes the Country Boss
New York Times United States
Almost everyone has heard of William Tweed the Boss Tweed of 19th-century New York; James Michael Curley of Boston fictionalized in “The Last Hurrah”; and Frank Hague of Jersey City known for his declaration “I am the law. ”More recently but without much notice bosses (and their organizations) have begun to flourish among suburbia’s manicured lawns and megamansions where jobs not Christmas turkeys are the coin of the realm. Joseph Margiotta who died last month ruled the Nassau County Republican Party in the 1960s and ’70s as a personal fief. Even lifeguards it was said had to go through Mr. Margiotta to get their jobs and figures like former Senator Alfonse D’Amato and Joseph Mondello the current state Republican chairman owed their starts to him. Margiotta’s reign might have continued longer were it not for those pesky prosecutors who in his case obtained a conviction related to the payment of insurance commissions to party stalwarts who did little work.
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Public service in Driehaus’ blood
Cincinnati.com H
In his new job Driehaus will be living a dream that his father Don once chased in 1968 when he ran for the same congressional seat and lost. “My father felt very deeply that service through public office was a very honorable thing that you could achieve real change for people through elected office” Driehaus said. Bipartisanship aside Hamilton County Republican Party chairman Alex Triantafilou said his party will assuredly try to grab the seat back in two years. “We don’t think he has the right set of values to represent the first district” Triantafilou said. “He is to the left of where the district is. “Triantafilou said possible contenders are state Sen. Bill Seitz R-Green Township; state Rep.
FREDERICK Md. (AP) -
WMDT MD
He says he doesn’t think he can devote enough time to the chairmanship and his job as president and CE of the United Way of Frederick County. Weldon says he will complete his term as delegate which ends in 2010 but won’t run again. In September Weldon left the Republican Party and became the only member of Maryland’s General Assembly to be unaffiliated with a political party. — Information from: The Frederick (Md.
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