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Gorham is at RNC to support McCain

2:36 PM Tue, Sep 02, 2008 |
By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau    Email this author |   Email this entry

Former Rhode Island House Minority Leader Brad Gorham is on hand for his second Republican convention, having traveled to Dallas 24 years ago for Ronald Reagan's nomination to run for a second presidential term.

Gorham is also a longtime supporter of this year's Republican candidate, Arizona Sen. John McCain, but he took a pass on the convention eight years ago in Philadelphia. "I was a delegate for McCain,'' who finished far behind Texas Gov. George W. Bush. "I said, `What's the point of going?' ''

Now that he's on board with a winner, Gorham has joined the chorus of supporters of McCain's running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin -- despite the fact that she stands to the right of Rhode Island's GOP mainstream and despite the sudden controversy over her teenage daughter's pregnancy.

"It shows that she's a human being,'' Gorham said of Palin. "She's a down-to--earth, genuine person. I don't think that this stuff will really hurt her.''

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