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| D.C. Council member David Catania resigned as a member of the District
Republican Party Committee after the party chair refused to certify him as a
delegate to the national party's nominating convention. (Photo by Leigh H. Mosley)
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By: LOU CHIBBARO JR. COMMENTS
 
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providing able and energetic
leadership,” Schwartz said in her letter. “Because of my personal
and professional relationship with David, and because I feel he was not treated
with the respect that he deserves, I hereby resign as a delegate to the 2004
convention and decline your appointment to the Rules Committee.”
Catania said that while he did not resign his membership in the party itself,
he is uncertain whether he will remain a Republican.
“This is a particularly sad day because I have spent so many years trying
to build this party,” he said. “So many people in this local party
are wonderful. But the DCRC leadership is more consumed with whether people
in the national party will like them than in the principles we stand for. The
national party is now advancing principles that we find unacceptable. Why can’t
we register dissent?”
Lou Chibbaro Jr. can be reached at lchibbaro@washblade.com.
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