leading WV GOP figure bolts party

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

http://www.dailymail.com/news/News/2005102722 /
Richie Robb figures he never really left the Republican Party. Instead, he says, it left him behind.
And if you take a look at Robb's voter registration file now, you'll notice a ‘D' instead of an ‘R.' The longtime Republican figurehead and South Charleston mayor crossed party lines and is now a registered Democrat.
"I stopped at the voter's registration office in downtown Charleston and thought, ‘Why not?' " Robb said of the change he made a couple of weeks ago. He also resigned from the state GOP executive committee earlier this month.

[afdip]

1. well, that's one of them . . . another 59 million to go

[YDogg]

3. Exactly.

[ThoughtCriminal]

2. This could get interesting

It would be nice if there were some more Jeffers in Congress that could shift control of at least one seat BEFORE 2006. But I really do not see many (if any) Republicans there who have that kind of integrity.

[FreedomAngel82]

4. Wow

I wonder how many other people have done this.

[SeattleRob]

5. I love it...

The rats are fleeing a sinking ship!

[wtbymark]

6. the exact words of Jim Jeffords

"he never really left the Republican Party. Instead, he says, it left him behind."

rock on Robb! welcome.

[Robeysays]

17. yes, every one seems to forget, that we are a big tent.

no one says hello, and welcome to the party.


so i say welcome robb, i'll show you around.

[damntexdem]

7. About time the flow started back this way.

Of course, it might have been earlier, and a bigger flow, if the Dem Party could decide that it actually stands for something.

[xray s]

8. That is the SECOND one this week

Paul Morrison of Kansas (Attorny General candidate) is the other switcher...Republicans switching to Democrats in RED states. Now that is something to think about!

http://www.wibw.com/home/headlines/1924487.html

[Hubert Flottz]

9. That's GREAT!

I have a friend who's wife works for him and she thinks the world of him. I believe I'd vote for him before I'd vote for Joe again. IF he runs next time. He couldn't be any worse.

[Pacifist Patriot]

10. Definitely read the whole article. The phrase "Why not?" turned me off...

until I read the article in its entirety. A shrug and a change isn't enough in my opinion. I think everyone deserves a reason. I appreciate his. Worth reading.

[mike_c]

11. not sure I think it's so great....

Basically, what he's saying is that the republican party left him behind, and now the democratic party is more like the republican party he still considers himself a member of. This is more evidence of the rightward drift of BOTH major parties.

[Tom Joad]

12. What Mike said. eom

[CrispyQ]

19. My thoughts exactly!

I feel like my party has left me behind.

[GreenPartyVoter]

20. I thought the same thing. While I am glad to hear of Repubs who have had

it with their party, their joining the Dems pulls the DNC further rightward. Nothing wrong with moderates, but I just don't want to see the liberals lose their voices. (Hence the reason why I am against a two-party only system.)

[notadmblnd]

13. he sees the writing on the wall

he knows the Mepubs have no chance in hell in 2006. Changing parties does not turn one into a democrat.

[zbdent]

14. And his voting record was . . . ?

I wouldn't trust a "turn" which voted with the party most of the time.

What was his record on the Repuke agenda? Did he previously seem to drink the Kool-Aid, and make the change because he wants to fool the kiddies?

[Hubert Flottz]

18. He had been walking the fence for a long time!

Hell our Governor is a DINO too!

[WI_DEM]

15. The Atty General of KS also recently switched to (D)

I read a couple of days ago on Kos.

[MissMarple]

16. So, do you think the herd is beginning to smell the smoke in the air?

And can the fire be far behind. ;)

[Lone_Wolf_Moderate]

21. Welcome home, Mr. Robb.

[struggle4progress]

22. Got PR as a WV elector in 2004, sayin he might not vote for W. But did.

Bet he'll be the sort of Democrat that organizes "Democrats for Frist/DeLay 2008" fundraisers ...