Minn. governor urges GP to broaden party base
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- Minn. governor urges GP to broaden party base
- Iowa NH defend spots in presidential contests
- GP and South vs. rest of the US
- Republican Party: North vs. South in GP
- Florida Republican Party chairman wins national GP post
- New Milford Republican Party caucus shows ‘total unity’
Minn. governor urges GP to broaden party base
The Associated Press
Check back soon for further information. AP’s earlier story is below. LS ANGELES (AP) — With Congress and the White House in Democratic hands Republican Party leaders meeting in San Diego hope to map plans for a rebound that will repair the party’s tarnished brand lure back big-dollar contributors and increase voter registration from coast to coast. The Republican National Committee is gathering for several days of talks after a difficult stretch for the party. John Ensign of Nevada and South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford once seen as rising stars have been damaged by extramarital affairs; Democrat Al Franken ousted Republican Sen.
Iowa NH defend spots in presidential contests
The Associated Press
With those dates set the issue is where other states eager to influence the nomination will fit in. Several plans have been proposed to rearrange the calendar including grouping states in regions and rotating the order every four years. California Republican Party Chairman Ron Nehring told the panel the nation needs a presidential calendar “that looks like it was designed on purpose which currently is not the case. “Nehring warned that the nation is drifting toward a national primary day which he said would inevitably favor better-known and better-financed candidates. He noted California moved its presidential primary to February from June last year triggering other states to leapfrog forward. Former New Hampshire Gov.
GP and South vs. rest of the US
msnbc.com
2010 is coming up!Liberty is on the way! Belief in the Individual not the state is on the way!Cicero (Sent Friday July 31 2009 10:46 AM)h one more thing If all things were reverse (something I know you folks aren’t capable of) this site would read like a Liberal Stormfont and the Northern Poverty Law Center would be tracking the movements of people who post here. Dave Tn (Sent Friday July 31 2009 10:52 AM)Repukes all you are is the few southern red states left anymore America is a changing society and your conservative ideas really cant control anyones lives anymore so no more cramming religion and your principles down peoples throats conservatism and the republican are a party and breed of people that is shrinking each daySean DEnver (Sent Friday July 31 2009 10:52 AM)I think this is the just-fruits of what Pat Buchanan’s "Southern Strategy" and Lee Atwater’s racially charged campaigns have wrought. Eventually this was going to catch up to the Republican Party; I think they were just of the opinion that it would take longer. guess what? Time’s up!The racial make up of the USA is changing and there are some white folks out there (I’m white myself incidentally!) who still harbor discriminatory thoughts towards anyone who’s skin isn’t lily white.
Republican Party: North vs. South in GP
The Star-Ledger – NJ.com
George Voinovich (R-hio) talks to reporters. If the signs are right the Republican Party already reeling from a series of national election reversals is flirting with a re-run of the civil war that it surely doesn’t need. George Voinovich of hio in a kind of Fort Sumter moment fired the first public shot in telling the Columbus (hio) Dispatch that the downfall of the GP is attributable chiefly to its takeover by Southern conservatives. “We’ve got too many Jim DeMints and Tom Coburns” Voinovich said a reference to conservatives Republican senators from South Carolina and klahoma both outspoken and intensely conservative. “It’s the southerners” Voinovich added.
Florida Republican Party chairman wins national GP post
Palm Beach Post
State Republican Party Chairman Jim Greer won the coveted position of the national party?s rules chairman on Thursday but he immediately dismissed the possibility that he would sway the calendar to benefit Florida voters or a possible presidential run by Gov. Crist who is facing opposition from Republicans and Democrats in a 2010 race for the U. Senate was often mentioned last year as a possible running mate for GP presidential nominee John McCain.
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New Milford Republican Party caucus shows ‘total unity’
Danbury News Times
“That’s the way it goes in politics. Someone had to lose and it was me. Sherry’s wife Patricia a former Town Council and school board member is the Republican Town Committee chairwoman. ne Advertisement yld_mgr. place_ad_here(”adPosBox”); of the party’s focuses this year is to regain Republican leadership on the nine-member Board of Education. But it was able to field only four candidates for the four-year seats with two two-year seats now held by Democrats still open. The party candidates will be incumbents Wendy Faulenbach a former school board chairwoman seeking a third term and William Wellman who was appointed last year.
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