NEW YORK – In a passionate address Thursday night that brought tears to the eyes of some delegates, President Bush pledged to build a safer world and a more hopeful America as he formally accepted his party’s nomination for a second four-year term. The president… Read More
NEW YORK – Ground zero. The two words immediately trigger the graphic image of the burning twin towers at the World Trade Center and have been a persistent theme in most of the speeches delivered at the Republican National Convention this week. googletag.cmd.push(function () {… Read More
NEW YORK – Maine delegates to the Republican National Convention were urged Thursday to place the United States economy in perspective when they return home to solicit votes for President Bush. Bush did not carry Maine four years ago in his campaign against Al Gore,… Read More
NEW YORK – All of the delegates were especially excited to be at Madison Square Garden Thursday night to watch President Bush officially accept his party’s nomination for a second term. But Mark Ellis, a delegate from Augusta, and Sen. Susan Collins also were thrilled to see 1976… Read More
NEW YORK – Charismatic moderates cleared the stage Wednesday at Madison Square Garden for two conservative bulldogs who tore the Democratic agenda to shreds during the third day of the Republican National Convention. Vice President Dick Cheney accused Sen. John Kerry on Wednesday night of… Read More
NEW YORK – Responding to an unpopular national party platform plank calling for a constitutional ban on abortions, moderate pro-choice Republicans reaffirmed this week their commitment to preserving a woman’s right to terminate an unwanted pregnancy. Dominated by conservatives, a policy committee at the Republican… Read More
NEW YORK – Administration officials at the Republican National Convention are preparing to reintroduce President Bush to millions of Americans who may feel they do not know their president as well as they’d like. Andrew Card, White House chief of staff, met Wednesday morning with… Read More
NEW YORK – Delegates to the Republican National Convention were brought to their feet Tuesday night when Laura Bush and Arnold Schwarzenegger extolled President Bush as a pillar of confidence in times of great uncertainty. “You can count on him, especially in a crisis,” said… Read More
NEW YORK – Jerry Hudson of Brewer, an alternate delegate attending the Republican National Convention, was only too happy to roll up his sleeves and get down in the dirt on Tuesday. Hudson was among a dozen or so Maine delegates and alternates who donned… Read More
NEW YORK – The way Mark Ellis figures it, he didn’t wait half the year to become a delegate to the Republican National Convention only to be run off by a bunch of left-wing demonstrators. While tensions heightened Tuesday between protesters and delegates, the Augusta… Read More
NEW YORK – Maine GOP delegates decided to go along with dominant party platform viewpoints Monday, but their seating assignments at Madison Square Garden could have offered a better point of view. In fact, some observers speculated that even the United States territory of Guam… Read More
AUGUSTA – Hours after helping to polish portions of a 91-page proposed platform for next week’s Republican National Convention in New York, Mark Ellis hustled down to Wall Street on Friday and rang the bell to open trading at the New York State Exchange. The… Read More