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Two retiring veteran Republican politicians are creating a potential conservative shift in the states 2014 election.
U.S. Rep. Thomas Petri, 73, who has served in the U.S. House of Representatives since 1979, announced he wont seek re-election. His decision came after Glenn Grothman, R-West Bend, the assistant State Senate majority leader, said hed challenge Petri and seek the GOP nomination for the seat.
State Senate President Mike Ellis, R-Neenah, 73, announced he wont seek re-election after serving 44 years in the Legislature. His decision came after a conservative group released an audio clip of Ellis talking in a bar about a campaign tactic that apparently would violate campaign finance law.
Both men are regarded as moderates. Ellis was a champion of campaign finance reform, a topic which attracted little Republican support in recent decades. He also has an independent streak as a legislator who wouldnt roll over for caucus positions until his questions were answered.
Petri won his congressional seat in a special election in 1979 following the death of U.S. Rep. William Steiger. After his election, Petri made a reputation as a moderate in Washington, a diminishing breed in the current Republican Party. Indeed, he was too moderate for Republicans who passed over his seniority in 2000 to select more conservative lawmakers for key committee chairmanships.
After that happened, Petri complained about a purge of moderates from GOP leadership roles. Conservatives have stepped up that effort in primary elections across the country since Republicans took control of the House of Representatives.
Petris decision will certainly trigger a hotly-contested primary this summer. Ambitious politicians get few real opportunities to be elected to the Congress. Grothman is in the middle of a four-year term in the State Senate. Hell have his State Senate seat even if he isnt elected to the Congress.
Ellis was caught on a secret recording at a downtown Madison bar frequented by politicians and lobbyists. Ellis who often is full of verbal bluster said he was putting together my own Super PAC in an effort to win re-election. The senator was facing his first serious challenge in many years in November.
Ellis is the second moderate Republican state senator who decided against seeking another term. Earlier, State Sen. Dale Schultz, R-Richland Center, announced hes retiring after the current term. He has served in the Legislature since 1983.
Schultz, 60, also was facing a conservative opponent this fall. Schultz had drawn the ire of Republicans for opposing Gov. Scott Walkers plan to dismantle public employee unions. He was the only senator to oppose Walker although Ellis had privately challenged the Walker administrations anti-union efforts.
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Gov. Chris Christie, R-N.J., Gov. Paul LePage, R-Maine, and U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky. Reuters and BDN file photos.
Republican Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey will come up to Maine for a reception with our own GOP governor, Paul LePage, and his wife, Ann, on May 7 in Portland.
The announcement was made in a fundraising email to supporters from The Committee to Re-Elect Paul LePage. Today is the last day of the current campaign finance reporting period, and the notice about Christies stop inMaines largest city is an attempt to get one last donation rally before the books on Q1 close at midnight.
Tickets for the event cost between $150 (general reception for an individual) and $1,500 (VIP reception for a couple).
Christies May 11 stop will be the second visit from a high-profile 2016 presidential hopeful in less thantwo weeks. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., will speak at theRepublican State Convention on Saturday.
Paul and Christie offer two different flavors of Republican candidate; Paulis a Tea Party darling of the libertarian, free-market crowd, while Christieis a more-or-less moderate conservative from a reliably Democratic state (he even approved Medicaid expansion).
LePage will share astage with both men, though its likely for the best that its not on the same night: Christie and Paul have traded several barbs in the past year as both have angled for the soul of the party leading up to 2016s presidential election.
Paul has said Christie is a conservative only if you have a very loose definition and essentially called the New Jersey governor a bully in the wake of the Bridgegate scandal.
Last year, Christiecalled Pauls brand of libertarianism dangerous for its opposition to using a broad surveillance regime to ferret out and prevent terrorism. He cast the entire libertarian school of thought as one for those interested only in intellectual debates, not pragmatic policymaking.
Both high-profile Republicans could giveLePage a boost in hisgubernatorial campaign against Democratic U.S. Rep. Mike Michaud and independent businessman Eliot Cutler. Most polls have indicated a close race between the two partisan nominees.
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Republican governor blocks efforts to raise minimum wage
Oklahoma #39;s Republican governor has signed a bill banning cities and counties from setting their own minimum wage standards. Rep. Eric Proctor joins Tamron Ha...
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