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State legislators in the Flathead Valley are — like the former governor himself — unsurprised by the Montana Republican Party’s public break up with Marc Racicot. The two-term Republican governor, who served from 1993 to 2001, earned a formal rebuke from the state party organization’s executive committee on Feb. 15. The decision comes after Racicot endorsed a series of Democrats in recent state and national elections, party leadership said. “It was a difference between party platforms and principles and I decided I would choose principles,” Racicot said last week. The former governor said he was unfazed by a text from...

Marc Racicot, a former Montana governor and former chair of the Republican National Committee, has written a letter to current RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel calling for her to lead the committee in reversing course on the recently passed resolution censuring GOP Reps. Liz Cheney of Wyoming and Adam Kinzinger of Illinois. Both Cheney and Kinzinger have been been outspoken critics of former President Donald Trump, and they are the only two Republicans serving on the House select committee tasked investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. “My suggestion and request is that you lead the Committee through the process of withdrawing...

Former Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman Marc Racicot said this week that he would that he will not vote for President Trump in November. “I regret that I will cause consternation perhaps in some corners, but even as a Republican, I will not be supporting Donald Trump for president, and I will not be voting for him,” Racicot, who is also a former Republican governor of Montana, said during a Tuesday interview on Yellowstone Public Radio. “That means I will be voting for Joe Biden for president.” Racicot did not provide details about why he was choosing to endorse the...

The party has an outside chance of winning the five or six seats it needs to retake control, but needs to find top-tier recruits in several states and is running out of time to do so. ....Here are five states where the party needs to land strong candidates to broaden the battleground and have a hope of winning back the Senate. Michigan Iowa Montana Arkansas New Hampshire

Marc F. Racicot (born July 24, 1948) is a United States Republican Party politician. Racicot is of French descent; his surname is pronounced "ROSS-ko". He has roots that run very deep in Montana's colorful history. His ancestors came to the Montana Territory in the 1860's. Marc's grandfather arrived in Libby in 1917 to work as a logging camp cook in northwestern Montana for J. Neils Lumber Company. Marc Racicot was born to Bill and Pat Racicot on July 24, 1948, in Thompson Falls. Marc grew up, first in Miles City and then in Libby. His parents opened their home to...

ARLINGTON, VA -- Today, Bush-Cheney '04 Campaign Chairman Governor Marc Racicot made the following remarks regarding voter fraud and other Election Day issues during a Bush-Cheney '04 conference call: "Thank you Steve. Thank you all for joining. First of all I want to start with a declaration of the principles under which we operate in reference to issues of voter fraud, voter intimidation, and enfranchising virtually every American who has registered and wants to participate in the political process to be an effective voice in that process. Parenthetically, let me make note of the fact that we have worked very...

Hi, With two weeks left until the Nov 2nd election, I am dumbfounded as to why the RNC hasn't forced this issue on the national media. As is in the NFL, it is time for hard nosed, smash mouthed politics as the game comes down to the wire. I am a Vietnam Veteran and already have concerns about John F. Kerry. Not so much his service in Vietnam, as his undermining our war effort when he got home. That aside, there are many veterans out there from many wars (WW II, Korea, Vietnam, Desert Storm, Grenada, etc, etc) and there...

ARLINGTON, VA – Bush-Cheney ’04 Campaign Chairman Gov. Marc Racicot today issued the following statement: “Governor Shaheen’s flailing attacks in New Mexico are part of the Kerry campaign’s desperate effort to regain control in a state where one-fourth of Democrats now support the President’s positive agenda for a safer world and more hopeful America. Shaheen knows that Kerry’s out of the mainstream policies ignore the priorities of New Mexico voters – she even agreed with the President's thoughtful stand against the Clinton Roadless Rule and opposed Kerry’s extreme environmentalist position. “The Kerry campaign’s effort to talk down New Mexico’s growing...

ARLINGTON, VA -- Bush-Cheney '04 Campaign Chairman Marc Racicot delivered the following remarks on the Bush Cheney '04 conference call today: "Thank you Steve. Good morning. I'd like to begin our discussion this morning with an excerpt, I'd like to share an excerpt with you of an interview that the President gave on Monday to Armed Forces Television. It's brief but I think very telling, and offers a remarkable contrast between how it is that the president is focused upon the performance of his responsibilities, and the political imperatives that continually demonstrate themselves as a result of the efforts of...

The Talk Shows Sunday, March 7th, 2004 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): > L. Paul Bremer, U.S. administrator in Iraq, and Bush campaign chairman Marc Racicot. MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani. FACE THE NATION (CBS): Sen. Bob Graham, D-Fla.; Govs. Bill Richardson, D-N.M., and Ed Rendell, D-Pa. THIS WEEK (ABC): Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.; Matthew Dowd, campaign strategist for President Bush; Tad Devine, senior adviser to Democratic candidate John Kerry.LATE EDITION (CNN) : L. Paul Bremer, U.S. administrator in Iraq; Sens. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas,...

<p>Republican National Committee Chairman Marc Racicot yesterday announced he will become chairman of the Bush-Cheney re-election campaign and be replaced as national party chairman by Ed Gillespie.</p> <p>Mr. Gillespie, 41, a protege of former RNC Chairman Haley Barbour, is popular with national committee members and congressional Republicans. But his new assignment may not be as easy as it looks, despite Mr. Bush's popularity and last year's Republican success in Senate, House, state legislative and gubernatorial races.</p>

Racicot to Head Bush - Cheney Campaign By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Filed at 6:54 p.m. ET WASHINGTON (AP) -- Marc Racicot is leaving the helm of the Republican National Committee to lead President Bush's re-election effort, and Ed Gillespie, a Washington lobbyist and GOP strategist, will become chairman of the political organization. Racicot, the former Montana governor and Bush's measured voice during the Florida recount of the 2000 election, will serve as chairman of the Bush-Cheney campaign. He told RNC members of his decision Monday. Gillespie will assume the RNC chairmanship, a move that must be confirmed by the RNC...

RNC News Release FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 16, 2003 Chairman Marc Racicot Announces New Leadership at RNC WASHINGTON - On a conference call today with the membership of the Republican National Committee (RNC), Chairman Marc Racicot announced his intention to step down from the RNC next month at the Committee’s annual summer meeting in New York. President Bush has asked Ed Gillespie to replace Racicot as RNC Chairman. Gillespie will serve as senior advisor to the RNC until RNC members consider the President’s recommendation in July. “It has been my great honor to serve my Party and my President as...

Not antigay enough Far-right leaders wage political war over President Bush’s “pro-gay” bent From The Advocate, June 24, 2003 Is President Bush too gay-friendly? That’s what a number of U.S. religious-right leaders are charging. And if the president doesn’t change his ways, some conservatives are threatening to withhold their support for his 2004 reelection bid. In a scene right out of the movie The Star Chamber, a group of powerful religious-right leaders on May 6 grilled Marc Racicot, chairman of the Republican National Committee, about a meeting he’d had with the Human Rights Campaign, a gay advocacy group, in March....

Party Animals Look for GOP bigwig Ed Gillespie to be named the new Republican Party Chairman this month, may be this week.And keep an eye on Democratic boss Terry McAuliffe.Insiders say recent flubs might prompt party elders to consider a learship change.

In the latest edition of my National Liberty Journal newspaper, we printed an article titled "Christian Leaders Threaten to Abandon GOP in 2004." In that article, we highlighted the grievance of several national evangelical leaders who have complained that Republican Party officials have recently extolled the virtues of homosexual-rights organizers. Since the publication of that issue, I have been on Fox News and other news venues discussing the issue. Here's a brief rundown of the situation: Republican National Committee Chairman Marc Racicot had a furtive meeting with the Human Rights Campaign, a prominent homosexual-rights organization. Following that meeting, Racicot rightly...

Mary Cheney ducks out of GOP gay group Mary Cheney, the lesbian daughter of U.S. vice president Dick Cheney, has resigned from the board of the Republican Unity Coalition slightly more than one year after taking on the largely honorary post with the gay-straight political alliance. Cheney, who once marketed beer to the gay and lesbian community as an employee of the Coors Brewing Co. of Golden, Colo., has been one of the few key gay rights supporters with close ties to the White House. "Working together, we can expand the Republican Party's outreach to nontraditional Republicans," she said in...

EELAND, Mich. — The Republican Party's dream of becoming the dominant party was on full display the other day at the Ottawa County Lincoln Day dinner here. Although George W. Bush lost Michigan in 2000 and the state elected a Democratic governor last November, the national and state party officials heaping roast beef and chicken onto their plates at the local fish and game club were buoyantly predicting they would take the state in 2004.The attorney general of Michigan, Mike Cox, elected in 2002 by 5,200 votes after carrying Ottawa County by 40,712, said President Bush could count on a...

May 22, 2003, 10:00 a.m. Staying Home in ’04Counting on social conservatives.By Kenneth L. Connor amesh Ponnuru's NRO piece Wednesday on gays and social conservatives was off the mark in several respects. While I do not presume to speak for all social conservatives, I can speak for Family Research Council, which was one of the first organizations to object to Republican National Committee Chairman Marc Racicot's meeting with the Human Rights Campaign. First, FRC did not suggest that "such meetings never take place." While we might question Racicot's judgment and the prudence of such a meeting, the RNC chairman is...

David avid Horowitz has written another of his occasional screeds against social-conservative leaders. This time it was their demand that Republican National Committee chairman Marc Racicot never meet with representatives of gay-rights organizations that set Horowitz off. I largely agree with Horowitz's article — it's quite foolish to insist that such meetings never take place, just as it would be foolish to object to Racicot's meeting with union leaders or the NAACP — but let me make two additional observations. First: Horowitz says that it is "intolerant" of the social conservatives to speak of a "gay agenda," as this implies...