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After Chafee, the picture for Rhode Island’s GOP looks bleak
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| Contributor | COSDem |
| Last Edited | COSDem Sep 24, 2007 08:07pm |
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| News Date | Tuesday, September 25, 2007 02:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Former Sen. Lincoln Chafee tells me that when he disaffiliated from the Republican Party in July, “it felt good.”
Well, that’s nice.
But I do wonder about Rhode Island. Is it en route to being a one-party state? No jokes, please. Sure, Democrats dominate, really dominate, especially in the General Assembly. But for decades you’ve seen Republicans somewhere among the top nine elective posts: the four congressional seats and the five general offices.
In fact, at times the GOP has held as many as five of these slots.
With Chafee’s 2006 loss, the Republicans’ grip slipped to one: the governorship. And with term-limited Don Carcieri, who barely survived last year, unable to run again in 2010, there is a real prospect the party will then be shut out.
I thought Chafee might try in 2010 for the governorship his late father, John, held in the 1960s and thus keep the seat Republican. But now comes word that the liberal Chafee, isolated within the national party, has become an independent.
He tells me he’s “unlikely” to run for governor and that if he does try for that post, or for mayor of Providence, where he now lives, he won’t return to GOP ranks to do it. |
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