“Disillusioned” Conservative Massachusetts Activist Quits Party, Calls Romney’s “Worst Administration in 20 Years.” “The man who has been the face of the Republican Party on the SouthCoast for the past decade has left the GOP and become an unenrolled voter. Arthur Larrivee told The Standard-Times that he has also submitted his resignation as a member of both the state GOP committee and the town of Dartmouth committee. He had been a member of the state committee for 18 years. A conservative, he was a regular guest on talk radio and commentator in the local press. ‘I’ve been disillusioned for some time,’ Mr. Larrivee said. ‘We’ve just had one of the worst administrations (Mitt Romney) in the last 20 years.’ [Standard-Times, 1/21/07]