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"Of course I'll have to remove her as the chairwoman and replace her with someone who supports my team and wants my team to succeed. I no longer consider her as part of that group,” said Mattiello.
"That's exactly what I'm standing against. We need to put people in positions for what they stand for and where their strengths are and what they can do for the people not whether there's a D next to them or an R next to them,” said Macbeth.
Doesn't every legislature in America assign committee chairmanships exclusively to members of the majority party (and independent members who caucus with them)?
I am generally not a supporter of enforcing ideological orthodoxy and branding politicians DINOs or RINOs. I like a big tent. That said, there are definitely Democrats in Rhode Island that make me think, What the hell, how is that person a Democrat? Peter Palumbo, who first came to my attention when he called atheist teenager Jessica Ahlquist "an evil little thing," is the best example. At first I thought, Well, he must be an old-fashioned ethnic populist type, socially conservative but big on labor. But when I looked closer, I couldn't really find any positions he held that couldn't easily get him elected to office in Mississippi or something.
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