71.   Her father, although not as outgoing, had shrewd political instincts and was a longtime state Republican chairman.

72.   Herrington, the state Republican chairman, is making no predictions about whether Setencich will hold onto his post, or lose it to a challenge from Pringle.

73.   Her father, Webster B. Todd, was a wealthy Republican state chairman and her mother, Eleanor Schley Todd was vice chairwoman of the Republican National Committee.

74.   His great-grandfather was a Republican state senator but his grandfather was a Democratic state chairman in Iowa.

75.   Imagine this assemblage of frustrated parliamentarians simply letting the governor pick the state chairman, as the Democrats do.

76.   In fact, former state GOP chairman Schroeder is expected to be the go-between on how the money should be allocated.

77.   In fact, his state chairman was in Europe last week.

78.   In Orange County, the state Republican chairman, Lew Oliver, used out-of-towners to act as the bad cops toward his own canvassing board.

79.   In other business, delegates named Mike Minnaugh as state Republican Party chairman.

80.   In Maine, state chairman David Emery, a former US House member, runs the McCain operation from his home with relatively few resources.