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corner.nationalreview.com - 1/30/2009
Chip Saltsman Drops out of RNC Race
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The former Huckabee campaign manager is no longer seeking the RNC chair. That still leaves five candidates in the running: Saul Anuzis, Michigan Republican Party Chairman; Michael Steele, Former Maryland Lt. Governor; Ken Blackwell, Former Ohio Secretary of State; Mike Duncan, Incumbent RNC ...
politics.nashvillepost.com - 1/29/2009
Chip Saltsman Withdraws From RNC Chairman’s Race : Post Politics: Political News and ...
— politics.nashvillepost.com — Chip Saltsman Withdraws From RNC Chairman’s Race By Kleinheider Posted on January 29, 2009 at 4:29 pm... Chip Saltsman’s letter to the voting membership of the Republican National Committee: Since November’s election, I’ve had the remarkable opportunity ... (more) Chip Saltsman Withdraws From RNC Chairman’s Race ...

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Michael Steele becomes first black RNC chairman - Yahoo! News
news.yahoo.com - 1/31/2009
Michael Steele becomes first black RNC chairman - Yahoo! News
— 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 ... (more) Michael Steele becomes first black RNC chairman - Yahoo! ...

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politico.com - 1/29/2009
More from the Saltsman CD
— 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 ... (more) More from the Saltsman CD

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Daily Pundit — Chip Saltsman Drops out of RNC Race - Mark Hemingway - The Corner on National Review Online Chip Saltsman Drops out of RNC Race [Mark Hemingway] The former Huckabee campaign manager is no longer seeking the RNC chair. That still leaves five candidates in the running: Saul Anuzis, Michigan Republican Party Chairman; Michael Steele, Former Maryland Lt. Governor; Ken Blackwell, Former Ohio Secretary of State; Mike Duncan, Incumbent RNC Chairman; and Katon Dawson, South Carolina Republican Party Chairman. I’m after opinions as ...

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Blackwell Drops RNC Bid, Endorses Steele
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com 1/30/2009 — Ken Blackwell, who has been in last place in all four ballots that have been held so far in the RNC chair race, has just withdrawn his candidacy -- and he's endorsed Michael Steele. Blackwell had the support of many movement conservative activists ...
Star Spanglish Banner: RNC Candidate Chip Saltzman Causes Immigration Stir
huffingtonpost.com 1/29/2009 — The race for the next chair of the Republican National Committee is being waged along lines that separate the party into factions: social conservatives vs. moderates; south vs. north, outside Washington vs. the insider crowd. In this context, the ...
Subbing Steele for Sarah: Lipstick on a pig coming from GOP again — The Moderate Voice
Here’s an interesting exchange in an NPR story on the Michael Steele selection for chair of the Republican National Committee: The consensus emerging from Friday’s gathering was that though the party clearly needs some major cosmetic surgery, its basic tenets are just fine.  ...
This Is Rich — The Mahablog
Headline from The Hill: “ GOP losing patience with Obama, Dem leaders .” Some things snark themselves. As Steve Benen says , “I wonder what the weather’s like in Republicans’ reality.” But now they’ve got a new party chair, Michael Steele . I hope ...
Michael Steele: The Republican Harry Houdini — The Moderate Voice
The “Man of Steele” has swooped in to save the G.O.P. Whoa, Nellie, not so fast… there is only enough room in this town for one Messiah and he lives at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. I live in Maryland and until five years ago knew newly elected RNC Chair Michael Steele very well. ...
New RNC Chair, Michael Steele, Was Paid by the GOP to Run for Lt. Governor of Maryland. He Received a Party Salary to Run. — BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an Attitude | Fight Ignorance: Read BuzzFlash
A BUZZFLASH NEWS ALERT When the newly elected RNC Chair, Michael Steele, ran for Lt. Governor of Maryland in 2002, he was paid a salary -- "consulting fees" -- by the Republican Party to do so. BuzzFlash first reported this back in 2002. (Steele served as Lt. Governor of Maryland ...
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STEELE TRAP. I have to say that, quite apart from its race-barrier-breaking, the election of Michael Steele to chair the Republican National Committee is the smartest thing the GOP has done in years. During last year's primaries he was one of the most eloquent and least insane party spokesmen I ...
RNC Race Ends; Michael Steele Wins Coveted Job at Helm of Sinking Ship — Hit & Run
The Republican Party now has something in common with the American government it no longer controls: it's run by a black man, in the Republicans' case former Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael Steele, elected today to chair the Republican National Committee. Follow the fooferaw that lead to Steele's ...
Video: RNC Chair Watch - It’s Michael Steele — FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog
Michael Steele, the former Lt. Governor of Maryland was elected this afternoon as Chairman of the Republican National Committee. 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 ...
Republicans Pick Michael Steele as Their New Party Chair — Crooks and Liars
Download | Play    Download | Play An interesting choice: Former Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael Steele beat out South Carolina GOP chief Katon Dawson in the sixth round of voting at Fridays Republican National Committee meeting Friday, becoming the first African-American chairman of ...
Michael Steele Selected RNC Chair — The Moderate Voice
Members of the Republican National Committee elected their first-ever African-American party chief on Friday, choosing former Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael Steele to chair the organization after six rounds of tumultuous balloting. More from CNN.
Obama Tally: Day 10 - The First 10 Days — Politics Daily
The RNC Stole the headlines by choosing Michael Steele as their new party chair . Steele, who last was on the national stage during a close, but failed Senate bid in Maryland in 2006, will be the first African American chair of the Republican party. What does this have to do with the Obama ...
Michael Steele is our new RNC Chair — RIGHTWINGSPARKLE
He was my man from the get go. Very happy about this. Ken Blackwell throwing his support behind him made all the difference. It's time to turn the Republican party around my conservative brethen. We just got a good start.
The Future of the Republican Party — J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All Eight Tentacles
The RNC Chair looks to be either Michael Steele or Katon Dawson: the Black candidate vs. the Racial Backlash Candidate... Josh Marshall: Talking Points Memo | Clarity : o we've just had a third vote in the RNC chairmanship race. It's still pretty scattered. But Michael Steele has moved ...
RNC Will Just Keep This Loser Mike Duncan (Or Maybe Not, Steele Leads In 3rd Ballot!) — Wonkette » top
Tipster “Matt L.” just sent us the First Ballot results from the exciting Republican National Committee voting for a new chairman to revive the doomed party! And let’s see, current loser RNC chair Mike Duncan has 52 votes, hapless Maryland loser and “moderate black ...
RNC Chair Watch: Who Will Win? — FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog
The Republican National Chairmanship race culminates today with an election . C-Span will begin live television coverage at 10:30 AM EST. Republicans are looking for a national party chairman to lead a GOP rebirth after losing control of Congress and the White House in back-to-back ...
Republican Candidates Clash Over Who Hates Gays the Most — Politics Daily
Today is election day for the Republican Party. One of six highly entertaining candidates will soon be named the next party chairman, hoping to do for the GOP what Jim Clymer has done for the Constitution Party. [Update: There are now only five candidates for the post. Former Tennessee party ...
Republican party chair candidates stumbling over themselves to prove who's more pro-gay — AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth
Yet you don't see them racing to prove who's more pro- religious right.
Frustration? Only for Conservatives — Daily Pundit
A Formula for Frustration by Jim Geraghty on National Review Online The process of selecting a Republican party chair in 2009 is feeling eerily similar to the unsatisfying process that selected a Republican presidential nominee in 2008: Each candidate has the following of a passionate faction ...
RNC Chairman's Race Update: Wadhams Endorses Anuzis — The Atlantic Politics Channel
Four days until the end of the race, and no one really knows who is going to win . Today, candidate Saul Anuzis , the chair of the Michigan GOP, will be endorsed by the well-regarded chair of the Colorado Republican Party, Dick Wadhams . And Michael Steele picked up an important ...
First African American to head GOP — First Read
From NBC's Domenico Montanaro Michael Steele became the first African American to lead the Republican Party, two months after Barack Obama was elected the first black president of the United States. It took six rounds, but, in the end, Steele ...
RNC race boosts technology (Politico) — Yahoo! News: Politics News
Politico - In a party still smarting from defeat at the hands of the highest-tech presidential campaign in history, candidates for Republican National Committee chair are carrying a common message to party members: it doesn’t have to be this way.