Republican Main Street
Partnership
Hails Chafee Win in
Rhode
Island
Rhode Island
Voters Reject
Campaign of Division
and Deceipt
(Washington, DC) - The Republican Main Street Partnership
PAC hails tonight’s
victory by Senator
Lincoln Chafee
(R-RI) over Club for
Growth endorsed
challenger Steve
Laffey. “Today
voters in
Rhode Island
chose results and
integrity over
division and deceipt,”
said Sarah
Chamberlain Resnick,
head of the RMSP
PAC. “Senator
Chafee’s win tonight
is a win for
Republicans all
across this great
country of ours.”
Steve Laffey, a
former stock broker
and Mayor of Cranston, ran a vicious campaign, financed by
the ultra-right wing
Club for Growth,
against Senator
Chafee. The Laffey
campaign received
national support
from radical
extremists like Ann
Coulter and Michelle
Malkin. “Today
common sense,
centrist values won
out over the radical
politics of
division,” continued
Resnick. “At the
end of the day Rhode Island voters wanted a Senator in Washington who would
represent their
values, not the
values of a handful
of right-wing
extremists.”
The Club for Growth
poured more than a
million dollars into
Laffey’s challenge
to Senator Chafee,
forcing the national
GOP to divert
limited money and
resources into
defending the Rhode Island seat. “The
Club for Growth
ought to be working
to protect the GOP
majority, not
working to undermine
it. Working to
insure Harry Reid
ends up as the
Senate Majority
Leader doesn’t seem
like, ‘working to
promote pro-growth
economic policies,”
continued Resnick.
“The reality is that
the Club for Growth
doesn’t really care
about promoting
pro-growth economic
policies, instead
they are obsessed
with collecting
political scalps.”
Rhode Island
voters were
subjected to months
of divisive and
deceptive
campaigning by
Laffey and his
backers at the Club
for Growth.
Respected
non-partisan groups,
like Annenberg’s
factcheck.org,
called the Club to
task for its
misleading ads
attacking Senator
Chafee. “Sadly,
deception and
division are the
hallmarks of a Club
for Growth
campaign,” said
Resnick.
“Main Street is proud of its support for
Senator Chafee and
of our tireless work
to protect and
expand Republican
majorities in both
the House and
Senate. We will
continue to fight
the Club for Growth
and other extremists
committed to
destroying our
party,” concluded
Resnick.
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The Republican
Main Street
Partnership PAC is a
registered political
action committee
that supports
Republican
candidates who are
fiscally
conservative and
take a pragmatic,
common-sense
approach to social
issues. For more
information on the
PAC and our
candidates, visit
www.mainstreetpac.com.
