RI Senate ’06
That’s an interesting circle the “Chafee forces” are hoping to square, Andrew. On one hand, they don’t want anybody to believe that Laffey is electable. On the other hand, they want Democrats to cross over for the primaries in order to ensure the nomination of the Republican candidate who can (the Chafee folks believe) beat…
Andrew is perspicacious to note, in a comment to the previous post, that the Chafee camp’s talk of ending Steve Laffey’s political career is disconcerting. Laffey may or may not be worth keeping on a list of potential Republican candidates, but this tough rhetoric — now used too frequently to be mere candid overstatement —…
Following is a rough summary of Dan Yorke’s interview with Republican National Senatorial Committee spokesperson Brian Nick. First, Dan Yorke found it provocative that Elizabeth Dole personally tried to talk Steve Laffey out of running against Sen. Chafee. Nick explained that Dole told Laffey that the mission of the Senatorial Commitee is to protect incumbents.…
Andrew has done a tremendous service by publishing the actual highway bill “benefits” to Rhode Island: $150 million of projects spread around the state. Senator Chafee voted for the highway bill. Since one of his key campaign positions is fiscal conservatism, I thought it might be useful to do some math on the true cost…
According to the Projo, both the National Republican Senatorial Committee and the Chafee campaign disapprove of Steve Laffey’s fiscal policies as Mayor of Cranston. The Projo article, however, leaves a couple of questions unanswered… To the National Republican Senate Committee and to the Chafee campaign: Does your disapproval of Steve Laffey’s fiscal policies lead you…
I wrote the words in this posting in response to Steve Laffey’s criticisms last week of the oil industry. It was originally part of an extended entry, which did not give the policy issues sufficient visibility. As a result, I am re-posting the portion on energy issues below, with some minor modifications, and deleting them…
Here’s Sheldon Whitehouse’s response to the Brown University Senate preference poll… Meanwhile, yesterday, the Whitehouse camp chose to focus on Chafee’s 3-point “downslide,” since the last Brown poll in June had him leading Democrat Whitehouse with 41 percent of the vote, and now it is 38 percent.Attention Whitehouse Campaign: The same poll shows a 10…
There are numerous aspects of Steve Laffey’s personal life history that many of us can relate to and all of us can respect. He is a living embodiment of the American Dream, achieving great things through the liberty found in America combined with getting a great education and then working hard. If you read his…
The senate race between Laffey and Chafee offers a rare opportunity for the Rhode Island Republican party–both its leadership and, especially, the rank and file–to define itself. For decades now, the “traditional” (elected) Rhode Island Republican seems to almost pathologically belong to the “can’t-we-just-get-along” club. They smile and wink and get gut-punched by the Democrats…
The Washington Times has this story about Mayor Laffey’s primary challenge against Senator Chafee: White House adviser Karl Rove and Senate Republican campaign chairwoman Elizabeth Dole tried to discourage the mayor of Cranston, R.I., from running against the party’s liberal Sen. Lincoln Chafee next year, but to no avail. Now Stephen Laffey, a former investment…
