Tea Party Targets: Orrin Hatch and Richard Lugar
Activism Wednesday, January 26th, 2011Orrin Hatch (R-UT) and Richard Lugar (R-IN) were elected to the United States Senate in 1976, both from solidly Republican states. They quickly became Washington fixtures and, like clockwork, were easily re-elected every six years thereafter.
Orrin Hatch
Ordinarily, their re-election campaigns this year would be a formality; Democrats wouldn’t really challenge (preferring to invest campaign funds in “winnable” races), Republicans wouldn’t have to kick in financial support (victory being certain).
Times have changed. Senators Lugar and Hatch face strong primary challenges from Tea Party activists, who see both veteran legislators as relics from another era. Tea Party activists in Indiana have gone so far as to petition Senator Lugar to stand down, to clear the path for one of their own. Tea Party activists in Utah are promising Sen. Hatch the same fate that befell Sen. Robert Bennett, another Washington fixture, whose political career ended in a Tea Party uprising at the Utah GOP Nominating Convention last May
by John Ellis
Read More: http://www.businessinsider.com/tea-party-targets-orrin-hatch-and-richard-lugar-2011-1#ixzz1CApDn88s
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