Gutsy R.I. mayor who fought ACLU attack on his town has good chance to defeat RINO Chafee
Posted on September 8, 2006
Rhode Island voters: Make this happen!
From McClatchy Newspapers: Rhode Island’s Lincoln Chafee faces primary defeat
PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Rhode Island Sen. Lincoln Chafee has sometimes considered quitting the Republican Party because he’s often uncomfortable with conservative stands on such issues as taxes and war.
On Tuesday, the party might quit him.
Chafee, 53, faces a strong challenge in Tuesday’s Republican primary and could lose to Stephen Laffey, 44, the two-term mayor of Cranston, R.I.
As mayor of Cranston, Laffey told the ACLU to take a hike when it tried to rip a nativity scene, AND ONLY the nativity scene, from a holiday display at City Hall. The mayor offered an open forum, but that wasn’t sufficient for the ACLU (you know, that group that claims to be the “guardian” of our liberties and claims to support the inclusion of religious displays in an open forum). The ACLU wanted the manger scene removed so badly, it embarrassed itself all the way up to the First Circuit before receiving a final boot in the rear there. Even after receiving this Constitutional smack-down, the frothers at the ACLU still wouldn’t relent, promising that it would monitor the displays to ensure they were “sufficiently degraded” in regard to religious content.
We need more elected officials with spine. The ACLU has made a living attacking small towns and jellyfish mayors/city councils. Laffey didn’t back down from the ACLU and is showing that he won’t back down from the national GOP leadership that is pouring unprincipled support to the far Left Chafee over the solid and tough Laffey (shades of Toomey-Specter).
If you’re a RI voter, you know what to do.
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He’s also got an excellent chance to lose to the Democrat candidate.
Rhode Island is pretty solidly in the liberal camp so whether or not Chafee wins the state will most likely remain liberal. I would like to see if a cultural conservative who is also liberal in economics can win this in other liberal states but I don’t know if Laffey fits that bill. The radical liberal base would hate such a person but the real liberals might like them.