RI Senate ’06
After the third Laffey/Chafee debate, I went “black” and avoided all punditry. Thus, here are the four (uninfluenced) items that stuck with me after the debate last night. First: Chafee’s labeling of Federal tax dollars to local/state government–what Laffey calls “pork”–as “property tax relief” was pretty clever. Never heard that one before. And though Laffey…
According to the Winston-Salem Journal: [Senator Elizabeth] Dole won’t be campaigning any more for Sen. Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island, who is considered the most vulnerable incumbent Republican. Chafee, a moderate Republican who publicly announced that he would not vote for Bush’s re-election – he instead wrote in Bush’s father’s name – is facing a…
Republican Sen. Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island is trailing Cranston, R.I., Mayor Stephen Laffey in a bitterly divisive primary contest that offers Democrats their best shot at picking up a seat in one of the nation’s bluest states. Internal campaign polls show the conservative mayor’s campaign attacks on Mr. Chafee’s liberal voting record — including…
There are a few gaps that need to be filled in Mark Arsenault‘s Republican Senate debate follow-up article appearing in today’s Projo. The article contrasts the positions of Senator Lincoln Chafee and Mayor Steve Laffey on the issues of taxes and spending. 1. Though Arsenault’s description of the PAYGO rule supported by Senator Chafee regarding…
Has Sheldon Whitehouse already changed his position on the Iraq War? In his initial TV ads, he said he wanted troops out of Iraq “by the end of this year”. And as recently as June, Whitehouse told Projo columnist Charles Bakst that he supported a hard deadline on troop withdrawal from Iraq…Whitehouse, who wants U.S.…
I understand what Sen. Chafee is doing by highlighting the polling data showing that Mayor Laffey is “unelectable” should he beat Chafee in the GOP primary and face-off against Sheldon Whitehouse in the General election. As Dan Yorke pointed out today, it makes political sense to scare people a little bit. But Yorke also made…
Once again, Senator Chafee has exhibited his prediliction to blame President Bush. (But thanks for the support Mrs. Bush!). I heard this on Rush Limbaugh yesterday, and now the transcript is up. Sen. Chafee was interviewed by NBC’s David Gregory about the conflict going on in Lebanon and Israel. Gregory says, “In effect the United…
Taken from the ProJo’s 7to7 blog: A new poll by the independent pollster Rasmussen Reports finds Sheldon Whitehouse, a Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate, edging ahead of incumbent Republican U.S. Sen. Lincoln Chafee, 46 percentage points to 41. The margin of error in the poll of 500 likely voters was 4.5 percent, according to…
Ian Donnis sets up the stretch run for the Rhode Island Republican Senate primary in this week’s Providence Phoenix…With recent polls showing the two Republicans in a neck-and-neck race, [Steve] Laffey’s Senate hopes will live or die on how well he can extend support beyond his conservative base in the state’s tiny Republican Party. Most…
{NB: This started as a brief re-cap of Mayor Steve Laffey’s amicable return to the Dan Yorke show. Subsequently, State GOP Party official Chuck Newton and Senator Lincoln Chafee appeared.} Cranston Mayor Steve Laffey and WPRO’s Dan Yorke have buried the hatchet, hence, Laffey was on Yorke’s show today to discuss the Senate race and…
