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http://politicalwire.com/archives/2013/08/20/maine_republicans_quit_party.htmlAugust 20, 2013
Maine Republicans Quit Party
"One of Maine's three voting members of the Republican National Committee and six other members of the Maine State Republican Committee have resigned and left the party, lambasting Gov. Paul LePage, U.S. House Speaker John Boehner and other Republicans for abandoning what they said are key principles for libertarians and conservatives," the Portland Press Herald reports.
sheshe2
(83,860 posts)They are adrift~
MineralMan
(146,325 posts)The Grouchy Old Assholes Party. GOAP.
They'll be fielding candidates real soon now.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)LePew and Boner aren't conservative enough for them?!
progressoid
(49,996 posts)shenmue
(38,506 posts)I've always thought the right wing were sent here from another world, like in "Invasion of the Body Snatchers."
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)Hell Hath No Fury
(16,327 posts)A kind of weird mixed bag:
Anger over rule changes adopted during the Republican National Convention in Tampa last year.
Congressional Republicans' support for the National Security Agency surveillance programs publicly revealed in recent months and for immigration reform, online-sales taxes and gun control.
Maine Republican lawmakers' failure to block enactment of a state budget that includes tax increases.
LePage's vetoes of several bills that were important to libertarians -- including those restricting the use of surveillance drones and allowing wider sales of raw milk and the LePage administration's "atypical meddling in the business of the Maine State Committee."
Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)phantom power
(25,966 posts)3rd party! 3rd party! 3rd party!
ProSense
(116,464 posts)Unintended consequences?