He displayed his bipartisan bonafides _ and outraged some conservatives _ by keeping several Democrats on the committee staff who had held their jobs before the Republicans took over Congress.
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Mactabbed voluntarily limits his edits to only film-related articles where he has shown ( at least until his bonafides are firmly reestablished ) and "'IF "'
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Historically, Republicans competing for the presidential nomination believed that the only way to draw support among those who vote in caucuses and primaries was to aggressively trumpet their anti-abortion bonafides.
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His Republican rival, Heather Wilson, was so eager to highlight her bonafides on education that she did not mention that she was a Rhodes Scholar and an arms negotiator in the Bush administration.
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Sen . Orrin G . Hatch of Utah also did his best to play up his bonafides with the Loeb family, saying, " I go back a long time with Nackey ."
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Both are trying to establish their Irish bonafides, trotting out press releases with the names of political celebrities who will appear at their conferences, the details of events, and affiliation agreements signed with various Irish entities.
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But Ognibene, the City Council Republican leader and a longtime power in the Conservative Party, is finding his bonafides under attack as he faces a challenger in the Republican primary who contends that the councilman is neither a true Republican nor a conservative.
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"But, based on the experience of our council and our own intuitions, we don't feel our purpose would be served by slamming doors while there are still some days left for people to put there bonafides on the table ."
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Missing no opportunity to underscore that he has grass-roots bonafides, McAuliffe trumpeted Monday that he was at a $ 10-a-head fund-raiser for the Alameda County Party . ( The event was not for the national party, but was the kind he expects to spend more time at .)
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The predicament for Lungren is that his bonafides do not square with the formula that Wilson himself perfected for a Republican to capture the governorship in the California of the 1990s : Reach beyond the party's base and assemble a coalition that includes moderate swing voters, who reward fiscal conservatives who are liberal on social issues like abortion.
