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Mich. governor condemns GOP leader’s remark that gays are dying of AIDS
LAKE TOWNSHIP, Mich. — Republican Gov. Rick Snyder of Michigan has condemned GOP National Committee member Dave Agema’s statement that gay people are seeking health insurance for same-sex partners because they are dying of AIDS and want free medical care.
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Mich. RNC member says gays want free healthcare because they’re dying of AIDS
LANSING, Mich. — A Michigan member of the Republican National Committee said Thursday that gays want free healthcare because they are dying of AIDS.
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Tea Party leader: Florida GOP is being taken over by gay ‘thugs’
The co-founder of the Florida Tea Party says the local Republican Party in Broward County, Fla., is being taken over by gay “thugs.”
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Missouri governor Jay Nixon shifts left politically
Missourians, meet your new governor: Jay Nixon, a Democrat. Though he has long worn the Democratic label, Nixon could have easily passed himself off as a moderate Republican during his first four years as governor.
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Poll: Republicans more tolerant of students wearing Confederate flag over rainbow flag
A new poll finds that Republicans are more tolerant of high school students wearing a Confederate battle flag to school than they are of students wearing a gay pride (rainbow) flag to school.
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Florida’s Charlie Crist plots political comeback as Democrat
Nearly three years after losing a U.S. Senate campaign to Republican Marco Rubio and leaving the governor’s mansion, Charlie Crist is plotting a political comeback that seems fantastical even by Florida’s stranger-than-fiction standards.
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In Va. and N.J., a contrasting tale of two Republican parties
FALLS CHURCH, Va. — This fall’s races for governor in Virginia and New Jersey offer a revealing window into the fight for the future of the Republican Party.
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Texas judge splits from GOP because he can ‘no longer tolerate’ anti-gay party
SAN ANTONIO — A Texas judge announced Monday he is leaving the Republican party because he can “no longer tolerate” a party that demeans people for their sexual orientation.
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Chris Christie’s decision to stop fighting marriage equality in N.J. stirs GOP
WASHINGTON — Gov. Chris Christie’s decision to stop fighting gay marriage in New Jersey was pragmatic – same sex weddings had already begun and a court warned that the state would have little chance of overturning them. But the move also reflects Christie’s bid to cast himself as leader of a welcoming GOP as he seeks re-election and ponders a White House bid.
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Former S.C. GOP official: Transgender people are ‘disgusting freaks’
The former executive director of the South Carolina Republican Party, says transgender people are “disgusting freaks” and should be rounded up and “put in a camp.”