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FILE-In this Oct. 15, 2013 file photo, Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson speaks during a briefing in Cleveland. Having fallen short twice recently, Ohio is making a big push to land the 2016 Republican National Convention with three cities bidding as finalists, eager to reassert its Midwestern political clout to a party that may be slowly moving away from it. The three cities, Cincinnati, Cleveland and Columbus, are among eight initial finalists for the GOP convention, the most from Ohio in a single year in recent memory. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak, File)
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** FILE ** In this Jan. 24, 2014, file photo, Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus is seen at the RNC winter meeting in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
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FILE-This Friday, July 19, 2013 file photo shows U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, talking with Steve Scheffler, left, during a fundraising picnic for the Iowa Republican Party in Des Moines, Iowa. Having fallen short twice recently, Ohio is making a big push to land the 2016 Republican National Convention with three cities bidding as finalists, eager to reassert its Midwestern political clout to a party that may be slowly moving away from it. The three cities, Cincinnati, Cleveland and Columbus, are among eight initial finalists for the GOP convention, the most from Ohio in a single year in recent memory. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)
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FILE - In this Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2014 file photo, Afghanistan presidential election candidate and former Defense Minister Abdul Rahim Wardak, center, poses for a photo along with Afghanistan national soccer team players after the first presidential election debate at the building of the Tolo TV, a private TV station, in Kabul, Afghanistan. Wardak, a longtime defense minister until he was removed by parliament in a vote of no confidence in 2012, gave no reason for his withdrawal and he was not throwing his support behind any remaining candidates, he said Sunday, March 16. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini, File)
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FILE - In this Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2014 file photo, Afghanistan presidential election candidates, from left, runner-up in the 2009 election, Abdullah Abdullah, former Foreign Minister Zalmai Rassoul and former Defense Minister Abdul Rahim Wardak attend the first presidential election debate at the Tolo TV building in Kabul, Afghanistan. Wardak, a longtime defense minister until he was removed by parliament in a vote of no confidence in 2012, gave no reason for his withdrawal and he was not throwing his support behind any remaining candidates, he said Sunday, March 16. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini, File)
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FILE - In this Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2014 file photo, Afghanistan presidential election candidate and former Defense Minister Abdul Rahim Wardak, center, poses for a photo after the first presidential election debate at the Tolo TV building in Kabul, Afghanistan. Wardak, a longtime defense minister until he was removed by parliament in a vote of no confidence in 2012, gave no reason for his withdrawal and he was not throwing his support behind any remaining candidates, he said Sunday, March 16. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini, File)
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FILE - In this Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2014 file photo, Afghanistan presidential election candidate and former Defense Minister Abdul Rahim Wardak listens during the first presidential election debate at the Tolo TV building, a private TV station, in Kabul, Afghanistan. Wardak, a longtime defense minister until he was removed by parliament in a vote of no confidence in 2012, gave no reason for his withdrawal and he was not throwing his support behind any remaining candidates, he said Sunday, March 16. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini, File)
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In this undated photo made available by the U.S. Army, shows Maj. General Lester Eisner. Eisner, 60, retired from his post on March 5, 2014, as South Carolina's no. 2 man. The pentagon budget plan to strip the Army National Guard’s Apache attack helicopters from America’s citizen-soldiers doesn’t sit well with Eisner, who commanded a chopper battalion and flew them for more than 1,500 hours. (AP Photo/U.S. Army, HO)
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In this Dec. 6, 2011 made available by the U.S. Army National Reserve, shows a members of the 1-151st Attack Reconnaissance Battalion as they prepare the last Apaches to leave for Camp Buehring, Kuwait. A Pentagon budget plan to strip the Army National Guard’s Apache attack helicopters from America’s citizen-soldiers doesn’t sit well with the newly-retired South Carolina National Guard general who commanded a chopper battalion and flew them for more than 1,500 hours. (AP Photo/ U.S. Army National Guard, Tracci Dorgan,)
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In this photo released by the U.S Army National Guard shows an AH-64D Apache Longbow with the South Carolina Army National Guard releasing flares during a test over Camp Tajo, Iraq, October 8, 2011. A Pentagon budget plan to strip the Army National Guard’s Apache attack helicopters from America’s citizen-soldiers doesn’t sit well with the newly-retired South Carolina National Guard general who commanded a chopper battalion and flew them for more than 1,500 hours. (AP Photo/U.S. Army National Guard, Tracci Dorgan)
