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October 19, 2007
Immigration Issues Highlight Thompson Campaign Trip Republican presidential candidate Fred Thompson breezed through metro Atlanta ahead of a rare line of thunderclouds Thursday, brandishing his conservative credentials and accusing GOP rivals Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney of favoring "sanctuaries" for illegal immigrants. In a brief interview, Thompson also addressed questions that some conservative Christian leaders have raised about his religious convictions, and work he once did as a lobbyist for an abortion rights group," the Atlanta Journal Contstitution reports. Amnesty Supporter Martinez Out As RNC Chair Mel Martinez, the public face of the Republican National Committee as its general chairman, announced Friday |
he was stepping down from his post after serving only 10 months . . . By tapping the Cuban-born Martinez to be the party's public persona a year ago, the White House had turned to a lawmaker who has been a staunch supporter of the president, including on the issue of comprehensive immigration reform, including a guest-worker program. Martinez served as Bush's secretary of Housing and Urban Development from 2001 until 2003, when he resigned to run for the Senate seat left open by Democratic Sen. Bob Graham's retirement," the AP reports.