All but one of the Washington staffers for Rep. Parker Griffith resigned on Monday in protest of the Alabama congressman's decision to switch from the Democratic to the Republican Party.
A state representative abruptly left the Republican Party and became a Democrat, the first time in 20 years that a Colorado lawmaker has switched parties.
Hot on the heels of a party-switch pick-up for the GOP, aides to John McCain confirmed to Fox News that the Arizona senator has called Pennsylvania Rep. Chris Carney and left a voicemail message.
Rep. Parker Griffith (D-Ala.) is expected to become the second member of Congress this year to switch parties, according to a report by Politico.
Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania provided a boost to President Obama's ambitious legislative agenda yesterday by abandoning the Republican Party in the face of shifting political realities at home and an aggressive courtship by the White House and party leaders.
Sen. Arlen Specter's switch to the Democratic Party has implications on a personal and national scale.
Like any bitter divorce, Sen. Arlen Specter's departure from the Republican Party was followed immediately by bitter recriminations and the central question of who betrayed whom.