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The Associated Press is reporting that former Senator Lincoln Chafee (?-RI) is leaving the GOP. 

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Former Sen. Lincoln Chafee said he has left the Republican Party because the national GOP has drifted too far from him on critical issues, including the war in Iraq, the economy and the environment.

“It’s not my party anymore,” Chafee, who represented Rhode Island from 1999 until 2007, told The Providence Journal in an article published Saturday.

Chafee said he is now an unaffiliated voter after leaving the GOP “in June or July.”

He said he made the move because “I want my affiliation to accurately reflect my status.”

During his last year in the Senate, Chafee had the exact  same American Conservative Union Rating (12) as Senators Barbara Boxer, Dianne Feinstein, Debbie Stabenow and Hillary Clinton. 

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