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Lavegin Would Face Primary With liberal Secretary Of State Matt Brown if he runs; possible Democrat candidates to succeed him include Lieutenant Governor Charles Fogarty, ex-Rep. Robert Weygand, while Republicans are coalescing around Warwick Mayor Scott Avedisian.

Brown is the first of several possible challengers to Sen. Chafee in the 2006 race to make his candidacy official.

July 27, 2004 Pg. 1 Senators Satisfied With Their 'No' Vote On Iraq ‘We were all firmly convinced we’d done the right thing’ By Lauren Shepherd By 1 a.m. that Friday morning, almost every senator had left the Capitol for home. Three Democrats, though, were still on the Senate floor, waiting for the final vote count on a resolution that would allow President Bush to launch a pre-emptive strike on Saddam Hussein and Iraq. Sens. Kent Conrad (D-N.D.), Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Paul Wellstone (D-Minn.) — had voted against the resolution along with 18 other Democrats, one independent and one...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Republican Sen. Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island, a moderate often at odds with GOP conservatives, disclosed Wednesday that the leader of Senate Democrats sounded him out about switching parties in the aftermath of President Bush's re-election. Chafee said he rebuffed the offer from Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada in a follow-up phone conversation the same day, adding that Reid offered "no deal or anything like that" as an incentive to cross the political aisle. "We had a brief conversation, just hello," Chafee said in an interview. He publicly flirted with leaving the GOP in the days before...

Chafee, Rhode Island, wrote in George H. Bush and says he might switch parties!!!

One day after the Supreme Court sealed the 2000 election for George W. Bush, his running mate, Dick Cheney, went to the Capitol for a private lunch with five moderate Republican senators. The agenda he laid out that day in December 2000 stunned Senator Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island, sending Mr. Chafee on a painful journey of political conscience that, he said in an interview last week, has culminated with his decision not to vote for Mr. Bush in November. "I literally was close to falling off my chair," Mr. Chafee said, recounting the vice president's proposals for steep tax...

Yesterday, it was reported that Rhode Island RINO Sen. Lincoln Chaffee had announced he might not vote for Pres Bush. Unsurprisingly, there he was as Judy Woodruff's guest on Inside Politics this afternoon. He spoke of his disagreements with W over "the environment, Iraq, and women's reproductive freedoms." Just as an aside, don't you just love the preciousness of his use of the plural form, "freedoms"? As to Iraq, he said "we want to make decisions on good, honest information. Where are we in Iraq?" Even Judy was surprised. "Aren't you able to determine the status, frankly, by reading the...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Sen. Lincoln Chafee, a Republican moderate from Rhode Island, said on Monday he might not vote for President Bush in the Nov. 2 election. Chafee stressed, however, that he has no plans to bolt his party, and that if he does not back Bush he will write in the name of another Republican. His spokesman Stephen Hourahan said afterward that if Chafee does write in a name it would be that of Bush's father, former President Bush. "I'll look at my options," Chafee said in a brief interview on Capitol Hill after discussing his indecision about...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Republican Sen. Lincoln Chafee (news, bio, voting record) said Monday he plans to support his party in November but may write in a candidate instead of voting for President Bush (news - web sites). The Rhode Island lawmaker, known for moderate views that often run counter to the Bush administration, said he was going to vote for a member of his party even though he disagrees with the president on many issues. "I'm a Republican," said Chafee, who was appointed to the Senate in November 1999 to fill the seat when his father, John, died. Chafee also...

(CNSNews.com) - A pro-life group is blasting Democrat John F. Kerry and Sens. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) and Lincoln Chafee (R-R.I.) for co-sponsoring a bill that the group says "subsidizes promiscuity, perpetrates immorality and promotes abortion." The $1.2 billion measure, called the "Putting Prevention First Act" (S.2336), was introduced in the Senate on Planned Parenthood's 2004 Congressional Day of Action. The Senate version has seven other sponsors. The House companion bill (H.R. 4192) has 112 sponsors. "This sex-drenched omnibus bill steamrolls several bad ideas from Planned Parenthood and other pro-abortion entities into one big promiscuity-promoting nightmare," said Ed Szymkowiak, national director...

Providence, RI (LifeNews.com) -- Pro-abortion Sen. Lincoln Chafee (R-RI) may be having second thoughts about supporting President Bush's re-election efforts. Chafee said in June that he was a loyal Republican and would support Bush for reelection. However, Chafee hinted last week at a change of heart. He has received an offer to help lead Bush's reelection campaign in Rhode Island, but hasn't responded. "I don't think I ever definitively responded" to the overture from the Bush camp, Chafee said. "It was just too early," Chafee said. "I've been pretty preoccupied." He aded that he has differences with Bush on key...

<p>WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Two fellow Republican senators criticized comments by Sen. Rick Santorum about homosexuality as "unfortunate" and said they don't represent the ideals held by their party.</p> <p>"Discrimination and bigotry have no place in our society, and I believe Senator Santorum's unfortunate remarks undermine Republican principles of inclusion and opportunity," said Sen. Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, according to a statement from her office.</p>

WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 — President Bush's decision to take strong conservative positions on an array of foreign, economic and social policy issues is drawing warnings from moderates within his party that he could alienate the centrist voters he needs for his re-election. As he prepares for the second half of his term — he was sworn in two years ago today — Mr. Bush hardly lets a day go by without pleasing his supporters on the Republican right. He has maintained a hard line against Iraq even as much of the rest of the world urges him to slow down....

Tony Snow asks Tom Daschle about possibility of Lincoln Chafee becoming a Democrat In his show tonight, Tony Snow had Tom Daschle as his guest. At the very end, he asked Daschle two questions. Here they are and Daschle's answers: Tony Snow: What is the possibility of Lincoln Chafee becoming a Democrat? Daschle: Possible. Tony Snow: What is the possibility of Zell Miller becoming a Republican? Daschle: Impossible. So. There you have it. The DIMocRATS have long ago bought insurance in case the GOP makes headway on November 5, 2002. How Sweet ! < /sarcasm > Lincoln Chafee:Jim Jeffords,...

  The Campaign to Control America's VoteLiberal Group Leads Fight Against Bush Judicial Nominees and School ChoiceBy Patrick J. ReillySummary: Texas Supreme Court Justice Priscilla Owen is the latest victim of People for the American Way's campaign against President Bush's judicial nominees. On September 5, the Senate Judiciary Committee in a 10-9 party-line vote rejected her nomination to the Fifth Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals. When the electronic voting machines introduced in last month's Florida primary elections failed to correct the voting irregularities that appeared during the state's 2000 presidential election, People for the American Way (PFAW)...