Repubs choose Dole over Coleman to head '06 Senate campaigns

[jean]

Republicans choose Elizabeth Dole to head 2006 Senate campaigns
Updated: 11-17-2004 12:45:31 PM
http://www.kaaltv.com/article/view/83116/
WASHINGTON (AP) - Senate Republicans have narrowly chosen North Carolina Senator Elizabeth Dole over Minnesota's Norm Coleman to lead their campaign operations for 2006.

Dole won the job after getting 28 votes to 27 votes for Coleman in a caucus of GOP senators and senators-elect.

Supporters of Coleman argued that -- as a native New Yorker who won in a Democratic-leaning state -- his appeal across party lines could help Republicans win Senate battleground states in 2006.

Dole's supporters said she would help Republicans win over female and minority voters by putting a "different face on the party."

Both Dole and Coleman are first-term senators.


Dole defeats Coleman for Senate campaign post
Rob Hotakainen
Star Tribune Washington Bureau Correspondent
Published November 18, 2004
http://www.startribune.com/stories/462/5090827.html
WASHINGTON, D.C.-- Senate Republicans voted on Wednesday to reject Sen. Norm Coleman's bid to join their leadership team.

The Minnesota Republican, who was elected to his first term in 2002, was vying to head the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC). But his colleagues chose North Carolina Sen. Elizabeth Dole for the high-visibility job. The vote was 28-27. All 55 Republican senators who will be part of the new Congress next year voted.

Dole, a former presidential candidate and Cabinet secretary, was chosen in a secret ballot during a closed-door meeting at the Capitol. She will serve a two-year term, beginning in 2005. As the chairwoman of the NRSC, Dole will be the lead Republican in charge of the 2006 Republican Senate races. She will be in charge of recruiting candidates and making sure they have enough money to run competitive races. The chairman of the NRSC also oversees a staff of 60 in Washington.

The job has served as a springboard to higher office. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., held the position from 2001 to 2003, when he was replaced by Sen. George Allen, R-Va. Both Frist and Allen are regarded as possible presidential candidates in 2008.

The last Minnesotan to win the position was former Sen. Rudy Boschwitz, who served as chairman in 1987 and 1988.

[LSparkle]

1. Don't love Liddy but can't stand Norm

He's a turncoat!

[MinnesotaMike31]

2. The best of the two bad choices won... in my opinion.

[Krupskaya]

3. Appeal across party lines?

Sorry, when he switched parties, it became very clear where his bread was buttered and he has no friends in the Democratic party.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

4. "Appeal across party lines"?

That's like saying Benedict Arnold had appeal across national lines.

[katinmn]

5. The less influence he has, the better.

and I really believe this despite the fact he's one of ours in Washington. I don't want him to get any additional exposure.

I do believe they USED poor Normie and he's not that valuable to them anymore.

[bvar22]

7. Used poor normie like a condom....

...and now he is just a rubber stamp for bush*.

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

8. But he's NOT one of ours.

Ol' Normie came from New York, pretended to be a democrat to get political power here, then switched.
He may be our junior Senator, but I don't consider him one of ours.
He's gone in 2008.

[Sade]

6. Thank goodness...

Definitely the lesser of two evils has prevailed in this case. The last thing we need is for Buttboy to run around this state proclaiming he's a national leader.

[katinmn]

9. nice avatar!

I'll be Theresa and you be Laura comparing our pink suits. :)

[mzmolly]

10. Good, I can't stand Coleman and his sleazy gap toothed phoney

ass.