Do republicans kill people?

Strange story out in today's New York Observer about our local reactionary subculture. It explains how it came to be that New York has two young repub clubs. But here's the money quote:

The sharpest knives came out several years later. In 1993, after Mr. Stevens had been reinstated as president of the independent club, he was charged with conspiring to kill a leader of the rival group. Federal prosecutors had tapes of Mr. Stevens talking to a presumptive hit man— part of the deal involved laundering money through the bank account of his Young Republican club.

Money laundering is something I think can honestly be expected from that crowd. But murder?

Especially when Jack Abramoff is already being tied to a gangland-style hit?

Bad news, people. Corruption I can deal with. Murder, no.