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Retired Republican Senator Leads Effort To Smash Local Tea Party
Breibart - Big Government ^ | 8-28-2014 | Charlie Spiering

Posted on 08/28/2014 12:12:57 PM PDT by Sir Napsalot

Sen. Al Simpson (R-WY) retired from the Senate in 1997, but he is now celebrating another political victory in his state. The retired senator ran and won his election as a member of the Republican precinct committee in his hometown of Cody, Wyoming, together with his wife Ann.

Both Simpsons earned a majority of the vote, effectively pushing out Tea Party Republicans in the precinct.

“We decided we’d start over,” Simpson explained in an interview with Breitbart News. “We did that about forty years ago when we started in politics.”

Although he retired from state politics long ago, Simpson indicated he was annoyed with Tea Party conservatives criticizing his record as a conservative, and had grown increasingly alarmed at the tone of the local Republican party.

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To: Sir Napsalot; Impy; Clintonfatigued; AuH2ORepublican; BillyBoy; Clemenza

The late Malcolm Wallop was the real Conservative from Wyoming. Simpson remains a sad embarrassment.


21 posted on 08/28/2014 6:27:12 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: MeganC
You were how old? Seven? When he retired?

LOL!

22 posted on 08/28/2014 8:01:21 PM PDT by KC_Lion (Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.- Sarah Palin)
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To: Sir Napsalot

The Pubbies and Dems have been on the same team for 100+ years. See my tag line.


23 posted on 08/28/2014 8:06:17 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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