pajamasmedia.com - 1/30/2009
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Some say that Katon Dawson is a "ticking time bomb" for the GOP.
news.yahoo.com - 1/31/2009
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news.yahoo.com —
WASHINGTON The Republican Party chose the first black
national chairman in its history Friday, just shy of...
three months after the nation elected a Democrat as the first African-American president. The choice marked no less than "the dawn of a new ...
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Michael Steele becomes first black RNC chairman - Yahoo! ...
thenextright.com - 2/1/2009
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thenextright.com —
Congratulations Chairman Steele! Your election is not only
a decisive victory for a new brand of leadership,...
but presents a significant opportunity to rethink the modern political organization. The people you hire at the staff level will be setting ...
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Memo to Chairman Steele: Organizing RNC 2.0
politico.com - 1/29/2009
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politico.com —
Though the inclusion of a song called "Barack
the Magic Negro" on a holiday CD was probably...
enough to scuttle Chip Saltsman's hopes of becoming chairman of a Republican National Committee eager to be seen as inclusive, NDN's Melissa Merz ...
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Showdown: RNC chair voting now underway
Hot Air » Top Picks —
... , just six votes ahead of Michael Steele. Ken Blackwell, who I thought would end up the favorite, is dead last with 20. Stand by for updates. Katon Dawson’s third at the moment, but third-place finishers in the first round have gone on to win before. Here’s tomorrow’s headline today if he somehow manages to pull it out.
Race for the RNC Chair
Ace of Spades HQ —
... . On the third fourth ballot, the vote count is: Steele 60: Dawson: 62 Anuzis: 31 Blackwell: 15 A Dawson victory could prove somewhat troublesome for the GOP . If you want to watch live coverage of the potential party suicide proceedings, ...
Michael Steele Ouster Rumor Real or Manufactured?
Politics Daily —
... That idea might not look so rosy to them after a new round of Katon Dawson whites-only country club stories. A little-noticed fact in this drama is that, on the eve of the election for RNC chair, Pajamas Media published a fresh story about Dawson's club kerfuffle. Let's see if there's a similar coincidence this time around. ...
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