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Voinovich: The GOP's 'being taken over by Southerners'
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| Contributor | Brandonius Maximus |
| Last Edited | Brandonius Maximus Jul 28, 2009 12:13pm |
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| Author | Rebecca Sinderbrand |
| News Date | Tuesday, July 28, 2009 06:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | WASHINGTON (CNN) – Republican Sen. George Voinovich, who is not running for re-election next year, told a newspaper in his home state of Ohio yesterday that Southerners bore a good share of the blame for his party's lagging popularity.
"We got too many Jim DeMints and Tom Coburns," Voinovich told the Columbus Dispatch Monday. "It's the Southerners….
"They get on TV and go 'errrr, errrrr,'" he said, according to the paper. "People hear them and say, 'These people, they're Southerners. The party's being taken over by Southerners. What they hell they got to do with Ohio?'"
Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn and South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint have been top targets for Democrats. Over the past few weeks, the Democratic National Committee has released spots slamming DeMint, including a tough ad that rips the senator for saying defeat of the administration's health care bill would "break" President Obama. |
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