The Republican Party
Events Related To The Republican Party
| 2000 | Week of Aug 1 |
Republican Presidential Candidate George W. Bush chose Dick Cheney, his father's secretary of defense during the Gulf War, to be his running mate.» |
| Reform Party leaders voted to remove right-wing columnist Pat Buchanan from the presidential ballot; Buchanan said the vote was “of no consequence.” George W. Bush killed an attempt to make the Republican primary more democratic using what he called “an iron fist rule” to keep divisive politics off the stage at the Republican National Convention.» | ||
| The Pentagon mounted an arms show in Philadelphia for the Republican National Convention that will cost at least $100,000.» | ||
| Speaker of the House Dennis J. Hastert took several members of the Republican party's “Regents,” some 100 campaign contributors who have given $250,000 apiece to the party since January 1999, on a fishing trip.» | ||
| The Republican Platform committee defeated attempts to moderate the party's anti-abortion stance.» | ||
| Week of Aug 8 |
Republicans formally nominated George W. Bush as presidential candidate at their convention in Philadelphia; a display of dark-skinned speakers elicited much comment from journalists who noticed the contrast with rank-and-file Republicans on the convention floor.» | |
| Ralph Nader, the Green Party candidate, made a brief appearance, much to the delight of bored journalists, before he was removed by Republican officials.» | ||
| The United States Immigration and Naturalization Service naturalized 180,000 immigrants without performing proper background checks, according to a Justice Department report; the report failed to support the Republican charge that the Clinton administration rushed the approvals in hopes of acquiring additional Democratic voters in the 1996 election.» | ||
| Voters in the Kansas Republican primary selected pro-evolution candidates for the state school board, ensuring thereby that the state's current science standards, which for the last three years have required the teaching of creationism in the schools, will be overturned.» | ||
| Week of Aug 15 |
New York Republican Governor George Pataki signed the nation's strictest gun control law.» | |
| Week of Aug 22 |
Democrats received higher overall Nielsen ratings for their convention than did Republicans; journalists noted that ratings were higher in 1996.» | |
| Week of Sep 12 |
In a Spanish article posted to Voter.com, Texas Republican representative Henry Bonilla said that Governor George W. Bush was “extending the monkey” to Hispanic voters.» | |
| Two Florida state representatives, both Republicans, had a fistfight in the parking lot of Radio Mambi, a talk-radio station in Miami.» | ||
| Week of Oct 31 |
Republican partisans were running a knock-off of the famous “Daisy” commercial used by LBJ against Barry Goldwater in 1964; the ad claimed that Clinton and Gore sold the nation's security to the Red Chinese.» | |
| Week of Nov 7 |
Irish republican terrorists put a bomb in a traffic cone that blew the leg off a Royal Ulster Constabulary officer when he picked it up.» | |
| Week of Nov 21 |
New Jersey Republicans accused Democrats of providing crazy people in mental hospitals with absentee ballots; it was suggested that the crazy vote may have decided a close congressional race.» | |
| Republicans accused Democratic vote counters in Florida of eating chads they had secretly and illegally punched for Al Gore.» | ||
| Week of Dec 19 |
General Henry Shelton, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, called for an increase in military spending to stop the “fraying of our force.” Virginia Lamp Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, was working for the rightist Heritage Foundation, vetting résumés of courtiers seeking places at the Republican banquet.» | |
| Week of Dec 26 |
Republicans were upset about Senator-elect Hillary Clinton's $8 million book deal; concerns were expressed about the potential conflict of interest created by accepting money from a major media company with an aggressive legislative agenda.» | |
| 2001 | Week of Jan 2 |
President Clinton signed the 1998 Rome Treaty on the International Criminal Court over the objections of the Pentagon and many Republicans, who on this subject do perhaps protest too much.» |
| Spokesmen for the Republican cabal denounced the recount as an attempt to “rewrite history”; Christine Todd Whitman suggested sealing the ballots for ten years.» | ||
| Week of Feb 20 |
Republican governors such as Tommy Thompson and Christie Whitman, both of whom are now Bush cabinet members, were embarrassed by revelations that they, too, had made a number of apparently corrupt pardons.» | |
| Week of Mar 20 |
California's Republican Party was trying to convince Arnold Schwarzenegger to run for governor.» | |
| Week of May 8 |
Ralph Reed, formerly of the Christian Coalition, was selected as chairman of the Georgia Republican Party.» | |
| Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld ordered that all routine contact with the Chinese military be suspended, then revoked the order after the White House got upset, which led to speculation of a power struggle within the Republican cabal. “We're going to review all opportunities to interface with the Chinese,” President Bush clarified.» | ||
| Week of May 29 |
Senator James M. Jeffords of Vermont defected from the Republican Party, handing control of the Senate to the Democrats, who promptly voted to confirm Theodore B. Olson as solicitor general, suggesting that the White House cabal had little to fear after all.» | |
| Week of Jun 5 |
Senator John McCain, a Republican, spent the weekend with Senator Tom Daschle, a Democrat; rumors of McCain's imminent defection were denied.» | |
| Week of Jun 12 |
Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, perhaps seeking to demonstrate the true grit of his party, promised that Democrats would not block President Bush's judicial nominees—unlike the Republicans, who blocked almost half the judges appointed by Bill Clinton. “I don't believe in it,” Daschle said. “We have to break the cycle.” » | |
| Trent Lott, the outgoing Senate majority leader, wrote a memo to his Republican colleagues declaring war on the Democrats.» | ||
| Week of Jul 17 |
Conservative Republicans are three times more likely than liberal Democrats to have nightmares, a new study found.» | |
| Week of Oct 2 |
Republicans were arguing that drilling for oil in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge was now a matter of national security.» | |
| Week of Oct 16 |
House Republicans were opposing legislation that would federalize national airport security because they didn't want to see an increase in the federal payroll.» | |
| Week of Nov 6 |
Congress continued to debate whether to nationalize airport security; antigovernment Republicans, including President Bush, oppose the plan as an unwarranted expansion of federal power.» | |
| Democrats and Republican moderates said they were more concerned about preventing terrorist attacks.» | ||
| Week of Nov 20 |
House Republicans insisted that some airports be given the option to hire private security companies after three years.» | |
| 2004 | Jan 11 | President George W. Bush nominated Michael Chertoff, a former aide to John Ashcroft and former Senate Republican counsel for the Whitewater investigation,[PBS] to head the Department of Homeland Security.[NYTimes]» |
| Jan 25 | Conservatives denounced the USA Patriot Act and complained that "big-government Republicans," who seem to think government is the solution rather than the problem, have been too busy "baby-sitting the nanny state."»[New York Times] | |
| Feb 13 | Republican operatives were looking high and low for anyone who could remember serving in the National Guard with President George W. Bush between May 1972 and May 1973; one group of Vietnam veterans was offering a $1,000 reward for proof that the president met his military obligations.»[New York Times] | |
| Feb 22 | Attorney General Bill Lockyer dismissed Governor Schwarzenegger's demand as "a statement designed for consumption at the Republican convention" and said that it was "preposterous," the kind of exaggerated rhetoric that inspires hate crimes.»[San Francisco Chronicle] | |
| Feb 28 | Powerful Republicans were said to be urging President Bush to get rid of Dick Cheney, who continued to insist, contrary to all evidence, that stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction will be found in Iraq, and that Saddam Hussein was allied with Al Qaeda. "Am I the evil genius in the corner that nobody ever sees come out of his hole?" Cheney asked an interviewer. "It's a nice way to operate, actually."»[Asia Times] | |
| Mar 15 | Congressional Republicans were beginning to show signs of resistance to President Bush's spendthrift policies. "We have been out of control for the last three years," said Senator Trent Lott. "We kind of got a little carried away."»[New York Times] | |
| Jul 21 | Republicans were trying to blame it all on Bill Clinton.»[New York Times] | |
| Sep 3 | About half a million people protested the Republican National Convention in New York City; the protests were said to be the largest ever at a U.S. political convention.»[USA Today] | |
| Oct 7 | Republicans in Oklahoma were running television ads showing dark-skinned hands accepting welfare checks.»[Associated Press] | |
| Oct 8 | Republicans in Michigan were calling on authorities to prosecute Michael Moore for offering to give clean underwear to college students if they would promise to vote.»[Associated Press] | |
| Nov 17 | The House Republican Conference changed its rules to allow majority leader Tom DeLay to maintain his leadership role if he is indicted.[Bloomberg ] » | |
| Nov 20 | Congress passed a $388 billion spending bill.[USA Today] The bill had $15.8 billion worth of “extras,” including $25,000 for the study of mariachi music and $2 million to buy back the presidential yacht, sold by Jimmy Carter in 1977.[USA Today] The yacht, the U.S.S. Sequoia, currently rents for $2,500 an hour.[sequoiayacht.com] The bill also allows hospitals and HMOs to refuse to provide abortions, and[LA Times] gave two committee chairmen and their assistants access to income tax returns, without regard to privacy laws. Republicans acknowledged the mistake of the latter provision, and vowed to repeal it.[AP] » | |
| 2005 | Jan 31 | Howard Dean admitted that he hates Republicans.»[The Rush Limbaugh Show] |
| Feb 9 | Conservatives began considering Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty for the 2008 presidency.[ABC News]» | |
| Feb 13 | Alan Keyes disowned his daughter and threw her out of his house because she is a lesbian.[Washington Post]» | |
| Mar 25 | Ken Mehlman, chair of the Republican National Committee, once again avoided saying that he is gay.[Gay People's Chronicle]» | |
| Apr 8 | Republicans held a conference to discuss ways to reform the federal judiciary, which they say has “run amok.” Senator Tom Coburn's chief of staff said that “mass impeachment” of judges might be necessary, and Tom DeLay, who is under investigation for illegal fundraising, gave a pre-recorded speech entitled “Confronting the Judicial War on Faith.”[New York Times]» | |
| Apr 10 | Many conservative American pharmacists were refusing to dispense birth control.[BBC News]» | |
| Apr 22 | Ken Ferree, the new president of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, said that he wanted to make PBS appealing to conservatives.[Editor & Publisher]» | |
| Jun 8 | Porn star and former California gubernatorial candidate Mary Carey attended a Republican fundraiser where George W. Bush was speaking. “I was told that they had people ready to tackle me if I tried to get up close to him,” she said. “I was getting propositioned to have threesomes with wives or mistresses. I was offered money from oil tycoons.” Carey also said that she would one day like to become president. “I'm very friendly,” she offered.[Jossip.com][WorldNetDaily]» | |
| Jul 28 | The U.S. House of Representatives voted down CAFTA, the Central American Free Trade Agreement, even though it was already approved by the Senate. House leaders then held the vote open for forty-seven minutes until they had changed enough Republican votes to approve the agreement. [Democracy Now]» | |
| Sep 8 | Republicans promised to probe themselves over the federal response to Hurrican Katrina.[Washington Post]» | |
| Sep 28 | Tom DeLay stepped down from his post as House Majority Leader after being indicted for criminal conspiracy related to campaign fundraising. "This is not going to detract from the Republican agenda," said DeLay's spokesman. DeLay was soon after indicted on a separate charge of money laundering.[CNN.com]» | |
| Oct 10 | Both Democratic and Republican senators were questioning the qualifications of Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers, who has never argued a case before the Supreme Court but has been often referred to as President Bush's “work wife.”[The Seattle Times][Slate.com]» | |
| Oct 20 | Republican groups were calling on the federal government to halt all funds to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which currently receives $400 million each year in federal funding. "That is enough money," said Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour, "to build 40 elementary schools."[CBC.ca]» | |
| Nov 5 | Vice President Dick Cheney was pressuring Republican senators to grant the CIA an exemption from a proposed ban on torturing terrorism suspects. Lawrence Wilkerson, who served as chief of staff for former Secretary of State Colin Powell, suggested that Cheney was ultimately responsible for the abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison and elsewhere. “There was a visible audit trail,” he said, “from the vice president's office through the secretary of defense down to the commanders in the field.”[The Seattle Times]» | |
| Nov 25 | A Vermont teacher was in trouble for testing students with liberal vocabulary questions. “I wish Bush,” read one question, “would be (coherent, eschewed) for once during a speech, but there are theories that his everyday diction charms the below-average mind, hence insuring him Republican votes.”[Boston.com]» | |
| It was revealed that the investigation into illegal payoffs made by lobbyist Jack Abramoff involves not only Representative Tom DeLay (R., Texas), but Representative Bob Ney (R., Ohio), Representative John Doolittle (R., Calif.), Senator Conrad Burns (R., Mont.), 17 current and former Congressional aides, and two former Bush Administration officials.[Reuters]» | ||
| Nov 28 | Representative Randy “Duke” Cunningham (R., Calif.) confessed to taking $2.4 million in bribes and resigned from office.[CNN.com]» | |
| 2006 | Jan 17 | New York Senator Hillary Clinton said that Republicans were running the House of Representatives "like a plantation." Republicans disagreed with Clinton, and Al Sharpton complained that she was stealing his material.[The Duluth News Tribune]» |
| Jan 24 | A Senate committee investigating the government response to Hurricane Katrina criticized the Bush Administration for ignoring the findings of a hurricane-preparedness exercise called "Hurricane Pam," which had warned that New Orleans would be flooded. "It is apparent that a more appropriate name for Pam should have been 'Cassandra,'" said Senator Susan Collins (R., Maine). [USA Today]» | |
| Jan 29 | The White House refused to release photographs of President Bush with lobbyist Jack Abramoff, despite requests from Senate and House Republicans.[Reuters]» | |
| Feb 2 | Representative John Boehner (R., Ohio), who belongs to a male-only golf club, whose political-action committee took money from Jack Abramoff but did not return it after Abramoff was indicted, and who in 1995 handed out checks from tobacco-company lobbyists on the House floor, was elected via instant runoff voting to replace Tom DeLay as House Majority Leader. The Republican Party, said Boehner, "must act swiftly to restore the trust between Congress and the American people." Boehner also said that he had "a very open relationship with lobbyists in town." "We are," said Representative Michael Oxley (R., Ohio), "somewhat tilting at windmills." [The New York Times][Bloomberg.com][The Nation via Yahoo! News][Sign On San Diego]» | |
| Feb 8 | Karl Rove was threatening to cut off White House support for Republican Senate Judiciary members who criticize the Bush Administration's warrantless-wiretapping program. "It's hardball," said a Republican aide, "all the way."[Democracy Now!]» | |
| Mar 8 | Tom DeLay (R., Tex.) won the Republican primary for his congressional seat.[Capitol Hill Blue]» | |
| Mar 26 | Both Democrat and Republican strategists agreed that if midterm elections were held now, the Democrats would gain control of the House of Representatives.[Time]» | |
| Apr 3 | Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R., Tex.) announced that he would not run for reelection to Congress. "I've never done anything in my political career," said DeLay, "for my own personal gain."[Time]» | |
| May 18 | It was revealed that in 2004 a group of Republican lawmakers wrote letters to the IRS calling for a probe of the NAACP.[Guardian Unlimited]» | |
| Jun 9 | Tom DeLay, the former Republican majority leader who was forced to resign because he is corrupt, said farewell to the House of Representatives. Dozens of Democrats walked out during his speech. “I did a good job,” DeLay said. “I helped build the largest political coalition in the last 50 years.”[UPI]» | |
| Jun 21 | House Republicans declined to renew the 1965 Voting Rights Act because it was unfair to Southerners.[The New York Times]» | |
| Jun 25 | Hillary Clinton described Republicans as negligent, irresponsible, and similar to monkeys.[The New York Times][Washington Post]» |
Facts Related To The Republican Party
| 1998 | Jun | Number of the 524 subpoenas issued in Rep. Dan Burton's campaign-finance investigation that have gone to Republicans: 9»[Democratic Office for the House Committee on Government Reform and Oversight] |
| Sep | Percentage change since 1991 in total Microsoft contributions to the Democratic and Republican parties[Democracy]: +460»[Center for Responsive Politics (Washington)] | |
| 1999 | Jan | Percentage change since then in the number of Republican candidates endorsed by a union: +125»[AFL-CIO (Washington)] |
| Jun | Last year in which neither a Dole nor a Bush has appeared on the Republican presidential ticket: 1972»[Harper's research] | |
| Aug | Age at which Elizabeth Dole became a Republican: 39»[Elizabeth Dole for President Exploratory Committee (Arlington, Va.)] | |
| Oct | Billions of gallons of water that the GOP reported released into a New Hampshire river in July for an Al Gore visit: 4»[Republican National Committee (Washington)] | |
| Number of days last August that Iowa hosted both the GOP presidential straw poll and the National Hobo Convention: 1»[Britt City Chamber of Commerce (Britt, Iowa)/Iowa State Republican Party (Des Moines)] | ||
| Nov | Amount by which the President's ten-year defense budget exceeds that of House Republicans: $206,000,000»[Economic Policy Institute (Washington)] | |
| 2000 | Feb | Number of the two memoirs published by GOP presidential candidates last year that use the phrase “toga party”: 2»[George W. Bush, A Charge to Keep, William Morrow &Company (N.Y.C.)/John McCain, Faith of My Fathers, Random House (N.Y.C.);] |
| Aug | Amount New Jersey's Camden police spent on riot gear in preparation for Philadelphia's GOP convention: $47,775»[Camden City Clerk's Office (Camden, N.J.)] | |
| Sep | Number of incumbent Republican governors who have won the presidency since 1898: 0»[Harper's research] | |
| Oct | Number of G.O.P. presidential conventions since 1911 with a larger percentage of black delegates than last summer's: 5»[Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies (Washington)] | |
| Percentage of G.O.P. delegates at the 1912 and 2000 conventions, respectively, who identified themselves as black: 6, 4.1»[Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies (Washington)] | ||
| 2001 | Feb | Rank of the Republican Party among sixty brand names tested for customer loyalty in 1999: 60»[FCB Worldwide (N.Y.C.)] |
| Jul | Number of the sixteen previous Republican presidents who experienced a recession during their first term in office: 15»[National Bureau of Economic Research (Cambridge, Mass.)/ Harper's research] | |
| Oct | Number of people arrested at last year's Republican National Convention: 390»[Philadelphia Police Department] | |
| Amount of campaign contributions that Sen. James Jeffords has returned since leaving the Republican Party in May: $17,470»[Office of Sen. James Jeffords (Washington)] | ||
| 2003 | Apr | Chances that a Democrat believes that "most" Republicans are prejudiced against African Americans: 2 in 5»[The Gallup Organization (Princeton, N.J.)] |
| Oct | Year in which House Republicans thrice rejected an amendment to upgrade the U.S. electrical grid : 2001»[Office of Congressman Sam Farr] | |
| Number of Virginia Republican Party officials fined this year for eavesdropping on Democratic Party conference calls : 3»[The Republican Party of Virginia (Richmond)] | ||
| 2004 | Mar | Number of the 420 demonstrators arrested at Philadelphia's 2000 Republican National Convention who were convicted : 23»[The R2K Legal Collective (Philadelphia) ] |
| Nov | Chance that a Republican president has not won the popular vote : 1 in 6»[Jimmy Carter Library & Museum (Atlanta) ] | |
| 2006 | Jan | Margin by which total votes for Democrats in the last three Senate elections exceeded those for Republicans: 2,900,000[Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives]
Number of seats won by Democrats and Republicans, respectively: 46, 56[Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives]» |
| Mar | Percentage of Democrats and Republicans, respectively, who say the Iraq war was “worth fighting”: 4, 84[M.I.T. Public Opinion Research Training Lab (Cambridge, Mass.)]» |
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