{"id":5214,"date":"2005-09-09T11:58:59","date_gmt":"2005-09-09T15:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=5214"},"modified":"2005-09-09T11:58:59","modified_gmt":"2005-09-09T15:58:59","slug":"fridays-political-round-up-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/fridays-political-round-up-23\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday&#8217;s political round-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s installment of campaign-related news items that wouldn&#8217;t generate a post of their own, but may be of interest to political observers:<\/p>\n<p>* Stephen Laffey, the outspoken mayor of Rhode Island&#8217;s second-largest city, <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/print?id=1108954\">made it official yesterday<\/a>, announcing that he will challenge fellow Republican Sen. Lincoln Chafee in a Republican Senate primary next year. <\/p>\n<p>* Despite some encouragement from state leaders, Rep. Tim Ryan (D-Ohio) became the latest sitting House member from Ohio to formally <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vindy.com\/content\/local_regional\/297508212148103.php\">withdraw from consideration<\/a> in next year&#8217;s Senate race against vulnerable incumbent Sen. Mike DeWine (R). (The chances of Paul Hackett getting into the race just went up.)<\/p>\n<p>* Speaking of Ohio, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkingpointsmemo.com\/archives\/week_2005_09_04.php#006455\">endorsed<\/a> a Cincinnati mayoral candidate who says only born-again Christians should be elected to public office. <\/p>\n<p>* Tennessee State Rep. Beth Harwell was slated to be one of a half-dozen Republicans vying to replace Bill Frist in the Senate next year, but Harwell announced this week that she will instead <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollcall.com\/issues\/51_19\/atr\/10387-1.html\">run for governor<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>* And in Colorado, Rep. Marilyn Musgrave (R), best known for her lead sponsorship of a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage, may face <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollcall.com\/issues\/51_19\/atr\/10387-1.html\">a primary challenge (or two)<\/a> while seeking re-election next year.Eric Eidsness, a Ft. Collins resident who served in the Reagan administration, told the newspaper he plans to form an exploratory committee. &#8220;I&#8217;ve talked to a number of people who are interested, as I am, in a change of leadership,&#8221; he said. &#8220;There are a lot of disaffected Republicans in the region who feel the party has left us.&#8221; Former state Rep. Bill Kaufman (R) of Loveland is also considering challenging Musgrave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s installment of campaign-related news items that wouldn&#8217;t generate a post of their own, but may be of interest to political observers: * Stephen Laffey, the outspoken mayor of Rhode Island&#8217;s second-largest city, made it official yesterday, announcing that he will challenge fellow Republican Sen. Lincoln Chafee in a Republican Senate primary next year. * [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}