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Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell easily beat a Tea Party primary challenger in Kentucky on Tuesday, setting up one of November's most expensive and hard-fought Senate races against Democrat Alison Lundergan Grimes.

Establishment-backed Republicans also swept away Tea Party rivals in Georgia and Oregon, extending the establishment's winning streak against the Tea Party and bolstering Republican chances of retaking the Senate in November.

McConnell's decisive victory over conservative businessman Matt Bevin headlined the busiest election night of the year so far, as voters in six states picked candidates for November elections that will decide which party controls Congress.

Republicans need to gain six seats to recapture Senate control and party leaders have waged a successful effort to avoid divisive primaries that produced weak candidates and helped cost them Senate races in 2010 and 2012.

Senate candidates backed by the party establishment won races earlier this year against the Tea Party in Texas and North Carolina.

McConnell had been targeted by Tea Party and conservative groups that accused him of not doing enough to block President Barack Obama's agenda in the Senate, but Bevin's political inexperience showed in a series of campaign-trail missteps, including his attendance at a rally supporting cockfighting.

McConnell quickly turned to the general election fight against Grimes, who won the Democratic nomination against nominal opposition, and linked her to Obama and Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid.

"Alison Lundergan Grimes is Barack Obama's candidate," McConnell told supporters at a Kentucky victory party. "There isn't a dime's worth of difference between a candidate who puts Harry Reid in charge and Harry Reid himself."

McConnell won about 60 percent of the primary vote.

In Georgia, businessman David Perdue and U.S. Representative Jack Kingston were the top two finishers in a crowded Senate primary, beating more conservative Tea Party candidates to qualify for a July 22 runoff for the right to face Democrat Michelle Nunn. The runoff was needed because no candidate finished with more than 50 percent of the vote.

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Republican legislators dont even want the Federal Communications Commission to think about reclassifying broadband as a utilitya route the regulator could take in order to reinstate net neutrality rules.

New regulations would hurt broadband deployment, several Republican members of the House of Representatives said.

Several Republican members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee called on FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler to drop all efforts to reinstate net neutrality rules, including his proposal that would not rely on regulating broadband as a common-carrier utility service.

Net neutrality rules would be nothing more than a price control for broadband, Representative Mike Pompeo, a Kansas Republican, said to Wheeler during a Tuesday hearing. Its a very dangerous path that youre headed down.

Other Republicans focused most of their ire on calls by some Internet users and digital rights groups to reclassify broadband under traditional common-carrier telecom regulations in Title II of the Telecommunications Act after a U.S. appeals court threw out the FCCs old net neutrality rules in January.

The FCCs net neutrality notice, released last week, tees up the long-dead idea that the Internet is a common carrier, said Representative Greg Walden, an Oregon Republican and chairman of the committees communications subcommittee.

Common-carrier regulations were focused on a monopoly telecom carrier and harken back to a world in which twisted copper was the only portal for consumers to the communications network and voice was the only service, Walden added.

Advocates of Title II reclassification say it would put the FCC on a solid regulatory footing for prohibiting broadband providers from selectively slowing Web content or charging Web content producers for prioritized traffic. Some advocates of strong net neutrality rules, including digital rights groups Free Press and Public Knowledge and members of Reddit, have criticized Wheelers alternative approach that would allow broadband providers to engage in commercially reasonable traffic management.

Representative Bob Latta, an Ohio Republican, said he plans to introduce legislation that would prohibit the FCC from reclassifying broadband under Title II.

Wheeler defended the FCC notice, saying it merely asks for public input on the best way to reinstate net neutrality rules after the appeals court ruling in January. His approach, he said, would follow a roadmap laid out by the court opinion that would allow net neutrality rules under a section of the Telecom Act that encourages broadband deployment, instead of reclassifying.

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Sen. Mitch McConnell, Senate Republican leader, wins over Tea Party primary challenger. The 30-year Senate veteran rails against powers that be in Washington.

The Republican establishment was on a roll in the Kentucky and Georgia U.S. Senate primaries on Tuesday night, crushing Tea Party challengers but sounding very much like them in declaring victory.

Dour, unloved but tough as nails, Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell defeated his Tea Party challenger, businessman Matt Bevin, by a 60-35 percent margin in the Bluegrass State.

But McConnell, once part of a moderate Republican tradition, was sounding hard-right.

The 30-year Senate veteran sought to sound like an insurgent, denouncing the powers that be in Washington. The highly partisan McConnell described his opponent as a partisans partisan. And he declared: A vote for my opponent is a vote for Obamacare.

The Affordable Care Act has worked as well in Kentucky as anywhere in the nation, but McConnell will need in November the 120,000 or so votes that Bevin received. He faces a tough Democratic challenger in Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes.

He made me a stronger candidate . . . Lets have a hand for Matt Bevins, McConnell said in declaring victory, mentioning his challengers name for the first time in anyones memory.

The Georgia primary, for the seat of retiring GOP Sen. Saxby Chambliss, featured five major candidates vying for the Republican nomination.

The two Tea Party favorites, U.S. Reps. Phil Gingery and Paul Broun both known for making radical statements trailed the field, collecting only about 21 percent of the vote between them.

The two frontrunners, headed for a runoff, are establishment GOP Rep. Jack Kingston and free-spending businessman David Perdue.

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LOS ANGELES (KABC) --

At a news conference Tuesday, members of the California Latino Legislative Caucus spoke in Spanish and talked about the upcoming One California event. One Latino member of the Assembly, however, says there is no inclusion for him. He was told he could not be a member.

"I asked to be a part of the Latino Caucus. I assumed I was going to be, but I was told that because I was a Republican I would not be part of the caucus," said California Assemblyman Rocky Chavez (R-Oceanside).

Chavez says he wants to help the Latino community, but the president of the Latino Caucus says Chavez should form his own caucus, a caucus of one.

"There was a Hispanic Republican caucus that we worked with and we've worked well with over the years, and so we are going to encourage him to act as his caucus and we'll continue to work together," said state Senator Ricardo Lara (D-Bell Gardens).

"What is surprising is the Latino Caucus is supposed to fighting against discrimination and now they are discriminating," said Luis Alvarado, a political consultant who says the caucus is a partisan group.

"At taxpayer expense, because us taxpayers pay for the staff that supports the Latino Caucus and their website, so there should be some uproar from the Latino community for this," said Alvarado.

On the website, it says one of the group's principles is to "Encourage more Latinos to engage in the political process." Some members say it's all about the issues that affect Latinos.

"It's about producing and it's about ensuring that ultimately the principles and the values and the issues that we see are important to us. If he recognizes that then I'm OK with him being a member," said Assemblyman V. Manuel Perez (D-Indio).

"It further amplifies the division of this building and we shouldn't be that way. We should look at trying to make the state better," said Chavez.

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Dem Congressmen Confronted by Republican Racism Claims

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