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Dole May Lead GOP Senate Campaign Panel
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| News Date | Wednesday, November 10, 2004 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | WASHINGTON - Sen. Elizabeth Dole (news - web sites) has secured more than half of the votes she needs to become the first woman to lead the GOP campaign committee that works to help elect Republicans to the Senate.
Taking over at National Republican Senatorial Committee is a traditional stepping stone into party leadership. The winner will need at least 28 votes from the 55 Republican incumbents and senators-elect when they meet next week.
Dole, R-N.C., and Sen. Norm Coleman (news, bio, voting record), R-Minn., are seeking the job.
A letter from 15 of those Republican says Dole is being "uniquely qualified and positioned to lead our next effort to protect and defend our majority" as the top fund raiser and campaign strategist for Senate Republicans.
The Nov. 5 letter, obtained Wednesday by The Associated Press, said Dole has a household name and is well known by the news media "from her many years of service to the nation and the Republican Party."
"That is a crucial element in fund-raising, whether trying to speak with a Fortune 500 CEO, organizing a series of fund-raising events across the country or communicating with grass-roots donors through direct mail," the letter said.
Before the Nov. 2 election, seven senators had signed a letter supporting Coleman for the leadership post.
Dole won election to the Senate two years ago, succeeding Republican Jesse Helms in the Senate. Previously she led the American Red Cross (news - web sites), was a presidential candidate in 2000 and served in two Cabinets — transportation secretary in the Reagan administration and labor secretary in George H.W. Bush's administration. |
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