Stevens Avoids GOP Ejection... For Now

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Source: ABC News

ABC News' Z. Byron Wolf Reports: Convicted felon Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK) had faced a vote by his colleagues this morning to kick him out of the Senate Republican conference, of which he is the senior member.

While that secret ballot vote would probably have passed in the closed-door meeting, most Republicans didn't want to have to take the vote, especially with Stevens' chances of reelection dimming.

So Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC), who is already on his colleagues' bad boy list for making Senators stay late on a Friday earlier this year only to skip the vote himself, had planned to call for the vote. While it would have passed, it was unclear he would have gotten a second to actually hold the vote.

In a statement this morning, DeMint said he will wait until the Alaska election is over (counting finishes tonight) to call for Uncle Ted, the longest serving Republican in the Senate, to be booted from the conference.

Read more: http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/11/stevens-avoids.html

[amdezurik]

1. the dems won't kick a traitor

and the reps won't kick out a crook...

[AlinPA]

2. No way they will remove him from the republican conference.

[DUgosh]

3. What will we tell the children??????

:sarcasm:

[deadmessengers]

4. It's likely to be moot.

It looks like Begich is a pretty good shot to win the final count, making it a moot point. There's no point in kicking him out if the voters already took care of the problem.

[theMark]

5. Maybe,..

but I'd still like to see him kicked out. Same outcome, but I'd like to see the R's have to handle it first.