Posted on: October 24th, 2007
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“It took a year for Mel Martinez to realize that he couldn’t be Florida’s junior senator and chairman of the Republican National Committee.
The potential conflict was obvious at the start: What if Sen. Martinez believed that a piece of legislation was good for Florida but the national GOP opposed it? That could have happened with the State Children’s Health Insurance Program. Twenty-nine of 49 Republican senators voted to expand the program, but Sen. Martinez did not.”*
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