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God Squad Spanks [Travis County GOP Chairman Alan] Sager
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| Contributor | Texas Democrat 06 |
| Last Edited | Texas Democrat 06 Apr 11, 2004 09:37pm |
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| Category | News |
| Media | Newspaper - Austin Chronicle |
| News Date | Sunday, April 11, 2004 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | "God Squad Spanks Sager"
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Austin Chronicle
Who knew that a mundane component of local party politics – the election of precinct chairs – would become this year's sleeper for the Travis Co. Republicans?
Indeed, these way-down ballot races sparked some of the season's bloodiest campaigns, with a handful of contests drawing multiple candidates for seats in key GOP precincts in the March 9 primary. On Tuesday, party voters will decide the winner in four precinct chair run-offs, but don't expect the bickering to end there.
Last month, the post-primary feud spilled over into the state Senate District 14 convention, where members voted to censure Travis Co. party Chair Alan Sager for speaking out against fellow Republicans in his full-on drive to get his precinct recruits elected over the party's radical-right candidates and incumbents.
At issue, as always, is the ideological split between far-right Christians and the so-called Reagan-Bush Republicans with whom Sager is more closely aligned. They've been at odds since Sager's ascension to the chair four years ago, which led to the creation of a Christian-right PAC called Legacy, whose leaders include former GOP Chair Jan Galbraith. (A third, smaller faction, known as the Ron Paul Republicans, is out in left field, so to speak, with little good to say about either side. Two of the Ron Pauls are vying for separate precinct chair seats in Tuesday's run-off.)
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