State Rep Leaves Republican Party,Calls GOP Too Extreme..

[Stuart G]

Source: Huffington Post, 630 WPRO

Posted: 6/4/2012 8:42:49 AM
Updated: 6/4/2012 9:17:49 AM

State Representative John Savage of East Providence is telling the Republican Party “see you later” as he changed his voter affiliation to independent over the weekend.

“I just felt that I would prefer at this point to be an independent. I think that I have been an independent thinking person in the legislature and I wanted to become the independent voter also,” Savage told the WPRO Morning News with Tara Granahan and Andrew Gobeil.

Savage, elected as a Republican to the General Assembly in 1999, said the Republican party has become too extreme for him.

“I think the republican party or a good segment of it has been capture by the extreme right, the Tea Party and I’m in disagreement with many of their positions and I did not want to be associated or affiliated with that element of the party, I feel they are way to the right and I want to be more to the center and independent,” said Savage.


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This is in Providence Rhode Island..Good..

[Angry Dragon]

1. One down, many more to go

[immoderate]

2. The best is he's not running for re-election!

--imm

[3waygeek]

11. A guy named Savage says the Rethugs are too extreme...

you can't make this shit up.

[boppers]

13. Do you know what Santorum is?

Thank this guy:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Savage

[zbdent]

3. He should have stayed on ... voted his conscience, and ran for re-election ...

and started railing against the Repugs ... and then, in the last few weeks, dropped out of the election.

Default "victory" to the Dem opponent (if there was one). If he "won", he'd say "I'm DONE. I can't take the job."

[patrice]

4. Anyone who personally knows a truly vindictive person, knows what is going on with the Republicans.

True story.

[Nambe]

5. Take away GOP $$$ and there would be a stampede behind him!

He must have a plan$

[elleng]

6. Rhode Island Governor's Independent, too.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_Chafee

This may be CONTAGIOUS!

[Scuba]

7. I have images of rats deserting a ship. Nice to see the ship going down, anyway.

[JackHughes]

8. The only honest Republicans...

The only honest Republicans are retired Republicans.

The problem with the Republican Party is the kooks and know-nothings that comprise their base. The Republican elite pandered to them, invited them in, fed them the propaganda they now credulously believe as gospel, and groomed them for office -- and now the kooks and know-nothings are their masters.

[NewJeffCT]

9. Either that, or they're in the DLC

which is the new home for moderate Republicans.

[wordpix]

10. my friend who's a church leader did the same

[pacalo]

12. K&R!