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The GOP ran ads attacking Laffey for raising taxes and allowing illegal immigrants to use consular ID cards from Mexico and Guatemala, even though Chafee voted against all the Bush tax cuts and supported amnesty. BOTH LAFFEY AND HIS GOP OPPONENTS had a point It was wasteful to expend so much time and money attacking an up-and-coming Republican politician in order to prop up an unreliable senator who might have pulled a Jim Jeffords in any event Those resources would have been better spent finding a primary challenger for Conrad Burns or hiding George Allen until Election Day.
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Chafee at the Bit
Chafee at the Bit Primary Mistake: How the Washington Republican Establishment Lost Everything in 2006 (and Sabotaged My Senatorial Campaign) By Steve Laffey (SENTINEL, 224 PAGES, $25.95)
Reviewed by W. James Antle IIIIN THE LONG LIST OF REPUBUCAN REGRETS about the 2006 elections, there is undoubtedly an entry for Sen. Lincoln Chafee. All told, the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) and other edifices of the national par...See the full content of this document
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