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NICOLE LAFOND JUNE 30, 2014, 3:16 PM EDT
The chairman of the Mississippi Federation of College Republicans (MFCR) announced on Monday he was resigning and planned to become a Democrat following a brutal U.S. Senate primary.
"The Republican Party has shifted too far to the right in my opinion, Evan Alvarez wrote in a resignation statement sent out by MFCR, according to The Clarion-Ledger newspaper. When I ran for Chairman in the spring, I ran to be Chairman of the Mississippi Federation of College REPUBLICANS, not the Mississippi Federation of College 'Tea Partiers,'" Alvarez said.
The resignation came after the MFCR board decided to not impeach the organizations executive director, Kolby Busby, for publicly endorsing state Sen. Chris McDaniel in the GOP primary against U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran. McDaniel eventually lost the race in a runoff.
Busby came under fire for the endorsement because he affiliated himself with the MFCR in the McDaniel endorsement, which was against the organizations rules. The MFCR policy is to stay neutral during primaries.
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RKP5637
(67,112 posts)Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)If he thinks the Teabaggers have been at this since spring, he hasn't been paying attention the last 6 years.