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Liberal Republican Suburb Turns Furious With G.O.P.
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP Oct 30, 2006 03:27pm |
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| Media | Newspaper - New York Times |
| News Date | Monday, October 30, 2006 09:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | The M.B.A.’s have had it. The engineers are fuming.
For as long as anyone here can remember, Bellevue has been a stronghold of socially liberal Republicanism. First, it was a prosperous Seattle bedroom community, then a technological boomtown, where employees of Microsoft and Internet start-ups consistently voted for fiscal restraint and hands-off government.
But now, voters here are accusing the party in power of overspending and overreaching — and when they do, they sound like people who write manifestos, not software code.
“I am a Republican and have traditionally voted that way,” Tony Schuler, an operations services manager at Microsoft with a Harvard M.B.A., said as he sat with his wife, Deanna, in their home above Lake Sammamish. But Mr. Schuler abhors what he sees as a new Republican habit of meddling in private affairs.
“The Schiavo case. Tapping people without a warrant. Whether or not people are gay,” he said. “Let people be free! It’s not government’s job to interfere with those things.” |
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