Lincoln Chafee

Lincoln Davenport Chafee (born March 26, 1953) was a liberal Senator from the state of Rhode Island. Chafee was appointed to the United States Senate in 1999 upon the death of his father, Senator John Chafee, and was elected to a full six-year term in 2000. He is a member of the Republican party. He narrowly lost his re-election bid in 2006 to Democrat Sheldon Whitehouse.

Fake Republican

Before getting defected for his senate seat, Chafee had a very liberal voting record and was a Democrat on almost every issue. Chafee strongly supports abortion. In May 2005, Chafee's senatorial reelection bid was endorsed by the traditionally Democratic-supporting NARAL Pro-Choice America. In 2003 he was one of only three Republican Senators to oppose the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act. He was also the only Republican Senator to vote against President George W. Bush's Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito. While in the Senate, Chafee was the only Republican senator to have expressed support for gay marriage. When asked is he would support giving the death penalty to al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden, his response was, "Rhode Island executed an innocent man, in the 18th century, and I'm against the death penalty." He has a record of being a tax and spend liberal. Chafee opposes eliminating the death tax and voted against both the tax cut bills of 2001 and 2003. He was also the only Republican in the Senate to have voted against authorization of the use of force in Iraq. In 2004 he wrote-in former President George H.W. Bush instead of voting for President George W. Bush.

External links

[1]Facts about Lincoln Chafee by U.S. News & World Report