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Grand OLD Party
Talking Points Memo — ... What better way to reform and reinvigorate the Republican Party than to elect a party chairman who was recently forced to resign his membership in a whites-only country club. ...

Another setback for GOP minority outreach
Political Animal — ... lamenting the fact that her party seems wholly disinterested in minority outreach. She acknowledged how difficult it can be to support a party that ignores minority communities altogether. I thought of Nelson's piece when I saw Greg Sargent's report on Katon Dawson, a leading candidate for the chairmanship of the RNC. Now here's a good way for the GOP to make the case that it hasn't been reduced to a southern regional rump party that's held hostage by intolerant crackpots: Elect as the new chairman of the Republican National Committee a southerner who just resigned a ...

Remainders: Don't ask
Ben Smith's Blog — Obama will delay repealing "don't ask, don't tell." Katon Dawson is the latest candidate for the RNC chair, and gets an early hit for being a former member of a whites-only country club. Fred Siegel says Bloomberg has become despotic, but not benevolent. Liberal bloggers have divided themselves into believers and cynics, and the cynics may win. National Catholic Weekly plugs their candidate for Vatican Ambassador: Pepperdine law professor Douglas Kmiec. Vilsack ends speculation that he'll ...

Candidate for RNC chairman was member of whites-only country club.
Think Progress — TPM Election Central notes today that South Carolina Republican Party Chairman and recently declared candidate for RNC chairman, Katon Dawson, was formerly a member of a the 80-year-old whites-only Forest Lake country club: Back in September, when Dawson was first quietly laying the groundwork for his RNC run, The State newspaper reported that he resigned his membership in the nearly 80-year-old Forest Lake Club. Members told the newspaper at the time that the club’s deed has a whites-only restriction and has no black ...

An Even Whiter Shade of GOP
Jesus' General — ... . Who better to lead our continuing efforts to disenfranchise black voters, blame blacks for the mortgage crisis, and fight the War Against Mexicans than a man who belonged to a whites-only country club for over a decade? ...

Mike's Blog Roundup
Crooks and Liars — ... Barack Obama needs to know About Tim Geithner, the AIG fiasco, Citigroup, and the Meltdown Brown Man Thinking Hard: The quiet transition you are NOT hearing about (h/t swimgirl) AlterNet: 2008 marks the 20th anniversary of Multinational Monitor's annual list of the 10 Worst Corporations of the year. Legal Schnauzer: The Siegelman Whistleblower: Did a notorious Bushie sweep the charges under the rug? TPM Election Central: Candidate for the RNC Chair was a member of a white's-only Country ...

We Got Pwnd
James Richardson's Skepticians — ... primary between then-Governor George Bush and John McCain . You’ll remember it was in South Carolina, with Eschew leading the charge, the viscous rumors regarding Senator McCain’s family arose. Eschew’s support comes as no real surprise: Dawson knows how to get things done and he associates like-minded folks. It doesn’t comfort me on a personal level, but the RNC would surely see a reinvigoration of sorts with Dawson at the top. That said, Dawson’s former membership at a whites-only country club stands to hamper not only his path to victory, but, if elected, outreach to ...

We Got Pwnd, Now What? The Race for the RNC Chairmanship
RedState: Conservative News and Community — ... George Bush and John McCain. You’ll remember it was in South Carolina, with Eschew leading the charge, the viscous rumors regarding Senator McCain’s family arose. Eschew’s support comes as no real surprise: Dawson knows how to get things done and he associates like-minded folks. It doesn’t comfort me on a personal level, but the RNC would surely see a reinvigoration of sorts with Dawson at the top. That said, Dawson’s former membership at a whites-only country club stands to hamper not only his path to victory, but, if elected, outreach to ...

Links for 2008-11-25 [del.icio.us]
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog — ... membership in the club and his role in an internal push to admit African-Americans as members. +++++++ Game Over.... Since the 1980s, other influential capital city business and country clubs have abandoned membership restrictions based on race, gender or religion. The nearly 80-year-old Forest Lake Club — whose deed has a whites-only restriction — has no black members, said four club members. They asked not to be identified because the club does not discuss its membership. Candidate For RNC Chair Was Member Of Whites-Only Country Club After all, the paper ...

links for 2008-11-26
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog — ... (tags: gaymarriage) Candidate For RNC Chair Was Member Of Whites-Only Country Club After all, the paper says he was a member for 12 years, so it seems like a pretty fair question to ask whether he started working to change the club's ...

Getting the GOP Back in the Game
Pajamas Media — ... . None of the candidates has a sterling record and each presents considerable liabilities. But some are more problematic than others. Katon Dawson has been a successful state party chairman in South Carolina but his twelve-year membership in an all-white country club would be a public relations nightmare for a party already struggling with minorities. Some are already sending up warning flares. A national committewoman who is supportive of Dawson  ...

Another setback for GOP minority outreach
Political Animal — ... lamenting the fact that her party seems wholly disinterested in minority outreach. Since then, two of leading candidates to lead the Republican National Committee have helped prove Nelson's point. Last month, we learned that Katon Dawson, a leading candidate for the chairmanship of the RNC, has been a longtime member of a whites-only country club in South Carolina. This month, Chip Saltsman, the former campaign manager for Mike Huckabee, embarrassed himself in ...

A Choice, Not an Echo
Talking Points Memo — With the earlier news about Katon Dawson and his whites only country club and today's revelations about Chip Saltsman, it really does seem like the RNC chairmanship race is down to a straight-up match between the black candidates and the racist candidates. ...

Political Masochism
James Richardson's Skepticians — ... reach out to minority communities, though I’d wager this wasn’t what he had in mind. Advancing a woefully intolerant agenda may help the Party in Saltsman’s back yard, Tennessee, but it stands to reason that it will further marginalize moderates, independents, and the few remaining African American Republicans. Republicans, still reeling from our collective inability to positively address issues of race, cannot afford racially-insensitive leaders, or, for that matter, those with 12 year memberships at whites-only country clubs . Obama has proved to be an elusive target for ...

RNC Candidate Distributes ‘Barack The Magic Negro’ As His Christmas Greeting
Think Progress — ... Saltsman isn’t the only RNC candidate who has come under fire on race issues. South Carolina Republican Party Chairman Katon Dawson was a member of a whites-only country club until recently, when he withdrew his membership in order to lay the groundwork for his RNC candidacy. ...

Six Remaining Republicans All Running for Chairman
Politics Daily — ... Has the most classically Republican name in the field. One that must be a big hit at the whites-only country club he used to frequent. ...

Six Remaining Republicans All Running for Chairman
Politics Daily — ... Has the most classically Republican name in the field. One that must be a big hit at the whites-only country club he used to frequent. ...

Daws-Mentum!
Talking Points Memo — Racial backlash candidate Katon Dawson moves into slim lead on 4th round of balloting. ...

The Face of the GOP?
INSTAPUTZ — A racist drug addict: Putz will deny Rush's white supremacy, of course, but it's gonna be pretty hard to do when the probable next RNC chair was a member of an all-white country club.

And the RNC crown goes to…Michael Steele
pandagon.net - we are the public option — ... It took six ballots, but it looks like the fringe right didn’t win out on this pick, because Ken Blackwell, the candidate of choice for the social whackjobs conservatives, was dragging up the rear in the vote count. What’s still kind of scary is the two men left standing at the end represented almost polar opposites. Katon Dawson, a Southerner who was a member of an all-white country club until last year, and Steele, the former Maryland Lt. Governor who is moderate by comparison was recently given the ...

Black GOP consultant: will Steele be given power to bring real change to the GOP?
pandagon.net - we are the public option — ... to head up the RNC. Given that some of the worst race-baiting in memory occurred in the last election cycle, it’s no surprise the party was scrambling to figure out how to handle opposing the first black president. It almost elected a stone-cold color-aroused candidate, Katon Dawson, who, quite frankly, would have made it very easy to dismiss the Republican party for a long time to come—Dawson was a member of an all-white country club until last year. ...

Katon Dawson Sounds Ready to Step In for Michael Steele
Politics Daily — ... came within a ballot of knocking off Steele in the party's internal elections back in January. And perhaps he'll be on that same ballot later this year if the drive to impeach Steele gains momentum. For now though, it sounds like Dawson and Steele need to sit down and sort out their differences about who'd make the best RNC chairman. Perhaps they should meet for a heart-to-heart talk over drinks at Dawson's South Carolina country club. Wait, what's that? Oooooh, that's right.   Permalink | Email this ...

Katon Dawson, Former Member Of Whites-Only Club, Is Leading Charge For No-Confidence Vote In Steele
Think Progress — ... for electing its first African-American chairman. Former Bush aide and RNC chair Ed Gillespie said his election “injected a shot of adrenaline into the party” and that Steele can open the GOP “to minorities and white moderates.” But now, in going with Dawson, the GOP appears to be heading back to what it knows and ditching its first African-American chairman for someone who, until recently, was a member of a whites-only country club, as TPM noted: Back in September, when Dawson was first quietly laying the ...

Friday Morning Open Thread
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth — ... , the guy from South Carolina who belonged to the whites-only country club? I don't think that will upset the hard-core GOP crowd. Dawson came in second during the balloting for RNC Chair. Steele sealed his fate when he took on Limbaugh. What's been truly amazing, almost stunning, is actually seeing just how much of a puppet-master Rush Limbaugh is. That lard-ass really does run the Republican party. ...

Michael Steele Had Better Pray That New York Recount Never Ends
Politics Daily — Filed under: House, Republicans, Humor, Voting Does anyone still remember RNC Chairman Michael Steele circa, say... February? We're talking about his tempestuous first month in office, when he was fending off critics like Rush Limbaugh (who wanted to seize RNC control in a spittle-fueled coup) and Katon Dawson (who didn't want an RNC chairman that couldn't be admitted to his country club). And what were the pundits saying around that time? It seems to us it was something along the lines of: If ...