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Laffey dismisses his party's convention
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| Contributor | Thomas Walker |
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| News Date | Thursday, June 29, 2006 05:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | The Cranston mayor and U.S. Senate hopeful says he's not seeking an endorsement at the state Republican Party's "charade of a convention" tonight.
PROVIDENCE -- On the eve of tonight's state GOP convention, Cranston Mayor Stephen P. Laffey announced that he was not even "seeking" his party's endorsement to challenge U.S. Sen. Lincoln D. Chafee in September's Republican primary.
That, of course, begs the question: Did Laffey try and fail to wrest the nomination away from the maverick Rhode Island Republican who has held the seat since 1999?
Suggesting the battle was over months ago when state party leaders agreed to take $500,000 from the national GOP with the proviso they back Chafee's reelection, Laffey said: "The state party made clear last September they prefer the insider candidate over the reformer and I have no interest in participating in their charade of a convention.
"I belong to the Republican Party of Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan and am more interested in the endorsement of each individual Republican primary voter," Laffey said. |
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