GOP SPLIT: District Republicans at Odds

D.C. Councilman David Catania, one of two Republicans on the City Council, has left the local GOP over a spat with party officials. Catania, who has publicly said he would not support the re-election of President Bush, had his convention delegate status stripped by Betsey Werronen, the chairwoman of the District GOP, because of his refusal to support President Bush. Though Catania, a Log Cabin Republican, said he would vote for Bush at the convention, he said he wouldn't vote for him in the November general election.

From The Washington Post:
Patrick Guerriero, executive director of the Log Cabin Republicans, a group of gay GOP activists, called Catania's break with the party "a great loss . . . and what it is for us is another very harsh reminder of the fact that the effort to amend the United States Constitution is causing a culture war within the GOP."

Carol Schwartz, D.C.'s other Republican on the City Council, resigned as a delegate to the convention in protest.