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  • Rhode Island's Lessons For Real Republicans (If GOP Stands For Nothing, It Deserves To Lose Alert)

    09/13/2006 10:45:32 PM PDT · by goldstategop · 72 replies · 1,015+ views
    Worldnetdaily.com ^ | 09/14/06 | Jane Chastain
    How did our country stray so far from the founding principles of limited government, states' rights, self-reliance and moral integrity? Most Americans blame it on Congress. Americans have little faith in members of Congress, but we keep re-electing our own congressman and senators, often with little or no serious thought on the matter. In 1994, after 40 years in the political wilderness, Republicans assumed control of Congress with the promise that they would get back to those founding principles. A few tried. Fewer are still trying, but we are torpedoing their efforts. Even if we are alert enough to know...
  • Republicans file complaint against Laffey (RI Senate primary)

    07/13/2006 3:58:53 PM PDT · by Clintonfatigued · 12 replies · 374+ views
    The Providence Journal ^ | July 11, 2006 | Mark Arensault
    national Republican political committee that supports Sen. Lincoln D. Chafee yesterday filed a Federal Election Commission complaint against the senator's Republican primary opponent, Stephen P. Laffey, accusing the two-term Cranston mayor of using taxpayer money to advance his Senate campaign. The National Republican Senatorial Committee, a group of Republican senators chaired by Elizabeth Dole of North Carolina, claims that a letter from Laffey sent to Cranston residents last month with their tax bills was "a promotional campaign mailing at city taxpayer expense," according to a statement from the NRSC. A campaign spokeswoman for Laffey called the complaint "ridiculous and frivolous."
  • A Way to Inject Decency and Lower Campaign Costs

    06/20/2006 5:27:55 AM PDT · by PurpleMountains · 66+ views
    From Sea to Shining Sea ^ | 6/20/06 | Purple Mountains
    Here in Rhode Island, over the last several weeks, we have been subjected to an unending slinging of negative political ads by Senator Chafee and his opponent in the Republican primary, Steve Laffey, both on TV and on the radio. These ads are disgusting, often untruthful, irritating, and most likely, effective in driving up the negatives of each man.
  • Poll: Chafee and Laffey in dead heat (Rhode Island GOP primary)

    06/02/2006 4:28:52 PM PDT · by Clintonfatigued · 78 replies · 1,442+ views
    The Providence Journal ^ | June 1, 2006 | John Mulligan
    The conservative Club for Growth has released highlights of a poll that shows Sen. Lincoln D. Chafee in a statistical dead heat with his Republican primary challenger, Stephen P. Laffey. The Washington-based group, which has endorsed Laffey, said its survey of 300 very likely Republican primary voters showed that Chafee would get 45.7 of the vote if the election ``were held today'' and Laffey, the mayor of Cranston, would get 44.3 percent
  • A Republican On The Edge

    04/14/2006 2:45:29 PM PDT · by youthgonewild · 32 replies · 1,246+ views
    Washington Post ^ | April 14, 2006 | Shailagh Murray
    EXETER, R.I. -- Lincoln Chafee was cleaning a horse stall on his well-manicured farm one recent early morning, describing his latest encounter with hostile home-state Republicans. The GOP senator had appeared the previous night before the Scituate Republican Town Committee to seek the endorsement of the small but influential group. In his halting, soft-spoken way, Chafee defended his opposition to the war in Iraq, domestic wiretapping and the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. as the principled positions of an old-school conservative. Chafee, 53, once could count on voters in Rhode Island to tolerate his maverick ways,...
  • Interst Is Surging In Race To Unseat (RINO) Senator Chafee

    01/04/2006 11:18:08 AM PST · by Clintonfatigued · 21 replies · 822+ views
    The New York Sun ^ | January 3, 2005 | Josh Gerstein
    A Republican primary challenge to Senator Chafee of Rhode Island is attracting backing from national groups that favor tax cuts and a strong U.S.-Israel relationship. The mayor of Cranston, R.I., Stephen Laffey, 43, is hoping to unseat Lincoln Chafee, a Republican who was appointed to the Senate in 1999 after the unexpected death of his father, John Chafee, and who won election to his father's former seat the following year.
  • NRSC Launches Negative Ad Campaign Against GOP Senate Candidate Stephen Laffey In RI

    10/05/2005 9:53:30 AM PDT · by Clintonfatigued · 31 replies · 2,915+ views
    Politics1.com ^ | October 4, 2005 | Ron Gunzburger
    The NRSC quickly waded into US Senator Linc Chafee's 2006 re-election race. The party organization is already running harsh TV spots in the state attacking investment banker and Cranston Mayor Steve Laffey, Chafee's conservative GOP primary opponent. The commercials try to tie Laffey to the unpopular oil industry and high gas prices, blasting Laffey for having previously run "a company selling oil industry stocks on Wall Street. Profiting from offshore oil drilling. The oil companies made a fortune. Steve Laffey made a fortune."
  • Lincoln Chafee (R), Sheldon Whitehouse (D) Front-Runners For U.S. Senate Nominations In RI

    09/14/2005 4:37:24 PM PDT · by Clintonfatigued · 17 replies · 408+ views
    Brown University ^ | September 11, 2005
    U.S. Lincoln Chafee leads Cranston Mayor Stephen Laffey by 44 to 24 percent in the race for the Republican Senatorial nomination, according to a new statewide survey conducted by researchers at Brown University. On the Democratic side, former Attorney General Sheldon Whitehouse is ahead of Secretary of State Matt Brown by 32 to 16 percent. The survey was conducted September 10-11, 2005, at Brown University by Darrell M. West, director of the Taubman Center for Public Policy and the John Hazen White Sr. Public Opinion Laboratory. It is based on a statewide random sample of 449 registered voters in Rhode...
  • Stephen Laffey (R-RI) To Announce Decision On 2006 Statewide Race On Thursday

    09/06/2005 5:10:57 PM PDT · by Clintonfatigued · 18 replies · 483+ views
    Laffey is expected to either challenge RINO Senator Lincoln Chafee in the GOP primary or run for Lieutenant Governor.
  • Republican group urges Laffey to challenge Chafee in primary

    05/29/2005 10:46:40 AM PDT · by nj26 · 6 replies · 453+ views
    Providence Journal ^ | 5/24/05 | DANIEL BARBARISI
    A group of Republicans statewide has organized a committee to encourage Cranston Mayor Stephen P. Laffey to challenge Sen. Lincoln D. Chafee in 2006. There are 85 names on a letter given to Laffey yesterday, including 2000 gubernatorial candidate James Bennett, Cranston state Representatives Carol Mumford and James F. Davey, East Providence Mayor Joseph Larisa and members of city and town councils, party members and business people. Former Cranston Republican City Committee Chairman Gary Vierra said that he and others -- mostly members of the Cranston GOP -- were behind the effort, which was launched two weeks ago. Vierra said...
  • Online Petition Encourages Stephen Laffey To Challenge RINO Lincoln Chafee In RI Primary

    05/26/2005 8:07:14 PM PDT · by Clintonfatigued · 20 replies · 385+ views
    ChuckMuth.com ^ | Chuck Muth
    The ONLY argument in favor of keeping Chafee in his father's old senate seat is that at least he votes for Republican leadership; that his vote is needed to keep Republicans in the majority. However, Chafee is on record as saying that if his one vote could switch control back to the Democrats, he just might do it.
  • Club For Growth Encourages Stephen Laffey To Challenge Lincoln Chafee In Rhode Island Primary

    05/21/2005 10:10:33 AM PDT · by Clintonfatigued · 31 replies · 2,427+ views
    The Hill ^ | May 18, 2005 | Peter Savodnik
    former Rep. Toomey (R-Pa.) said he had spoken in recent weeks with Laffey about running against centrist Sen. Lincoln Chafee (R-R.I.)
  • Chafee's critics

    11/28/2004 6:31:45 PM PST · by BillyBoy · 53 replies · 3,488+ views
    The Chicago Sun-Times ^ | November 29, 2004 | Robert Novak
    RINO Chafee to face primary challenge in 2006? Chafee's critics by Robert Novak, Chicago Sun-Times columnist Sen. Lincoln Chafee, who declared he was not voting for George W. Bush's re-election and considered leaving the Republican Party, may face trouble in Rhode Island's 2006 GOP primary. Chafee's conduct upset Rhode Island Republicans, who may support Cranston Mayor Stephen Laffey in a possible Senate bid. Laffey, who describes himself as a populist and is more conservative than Chafee, won re-election by a landslide in heavily Democratic Cranston after cleaning up its finances. Independent voters, comprising about half of Rhode Island's electorate,...