Jim Moran, a Democrat of Virginia, and Republican Rep. Jim Kolbe, of Arizona, casting the only votes against it.

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"There were the most hostile kind of comments being made, " Mr. Kolbe said.

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Jim Kolbe, R-Arizona, and Charles Stenholm, D-Texas, would create private accounts financed by 2 percent of the existing payroll tax.

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Instead, Kolbe backed a former aide, state Rep. Steve Huffman, who was also endorsed by national party leaders from Washington.

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Amidst all this secret activity, only one expert seems to have managed to ascend the seventy-foot scaffold uninvited, a doctoral student by the name of Johanna Kolbe.

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In a statement shortly after the GOP results were announced, Kolbe said he "would not be true to my own principles" if he endorsed Graf for the general.

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Tuesday's primary saw former state Rep. Randy Graf, a conservative and strong foe of illegal immigration, win despite strong opposition by the retiring GOP incumbent, Jim Kolbe, as well as national party leaders.

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"As a Republican, I believe in protecting individual freedoms and that everyone, including gay and lesbian Americans, has a constitutional right to be treated equally under the law, " said former Rep. Jim Kolbe.

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Former Rep. Jim Kolbe, a centrist Republican who held Ms. Giffords' seat from 1984 to 2007, said that in the latter period of his tenure temperatures rose in his district, especially when Congress debated immigration.

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