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Candidate For RNC Chair Was Member Of Whites Only Country Club
TPM Election Central — ... And guess what: 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 members. ...

Candidate for RNC chairman was member of whites-only country club.
Think Progress — ... to the country club calling for it to open its doors to minorities. But Dawson, who had been a member for 12 years, only sent the letter after reports of the club’s racist membership rules appeared in the The State newspaper. ...

Should South Carolina GOP Chairman Katon Dawson Withdraw as a Candidate for Chair of the Republican National Committee?
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog — ... The answer is YES. Double YES Three Strikes and you are OUT. State GOP chairman Katon Dawson, who is campaigning to lead the national Republican Party organization, has resigned a 12-year membership in a whites-only Columbia country club. Dawson said last week his continued membership at Forest Lake Club could become a distraction to his efforts to help win elections for Republicans in South Carolina. With the upcoming inauguration of the first African-American President of the United States does the Republican ...

Links for 2008-11-25 [del.icio.us]
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog — ... matter to be decided by the executive or legislative branch, or by popular vote, but is instead an issue of constitutional law for resolution by the judicial branch," Kennard wrote. "Everything she writes in her concurrence is substantively what she will have to agree to in order to overturn Proposition 8," he said. ...others saw reason to suspect that Kennard may not be buying the argument that Proposition 8 was an improper revision of the state constitution. S.C. GOP chairman quits whites-only country club State GOP chairman Katon Dawson, who ...

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FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog — ... (tags: GOP katon_dawson RNC) S.C. GOP chairman quits whites-only country club State GOP chairman Katon Dawson, who is campaigning to lead the national Republican Party organization, has resigned a 12-year membership in a ...

Getting the GOP Back in the Game
Pajamas Media — ... 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  concedes , “I think there are some members of the committee who would find it intolerable.” And to boot, the club has also excluded Jews, although it did extend an “honorary membership” in the 1980s to the commander at ...

Dawson pushes back on race
Ben Smith's Blog — ... McCall specifically addresses the country club issue, referring to a State piece in which Dawson said he began working this August to change the policy: ...

Black RNC member says membership in whites-only club is no big deal
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth — ... But I do love this issue, because it just goes to show how racist, and overall bigoted, the Republican party continues to be. In a nutshell, a top candidate for leadership of the entire Republican party has been a member for 12 years of a club that bars black people. The guy claims he's been trying since August - August of this year, just four months ago - to change the policy, and that he's now quit the club. Coincidentally that was at the same time that his name was being discussed as a possible candidate for the head of the party. Gee, what a coincidence. Why didn't he ...

12/9: Scandalous!
Blogometer — ... , including 59 percent of people under age 45, oppose the bailout. Good luck, Barry." RNC CHAIR: Dawson's Country Club Problem Several conservative bloggers are wary of the prospect of SC GOP Chair Katon Dawson becoming RNC Chair, since Dawson spent 12 years as a member of a whites-only country club : THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Blagojevich Had Presidential Ambitions? Reading the ...

Sorting Out the RNC Chairman's Race
The Jawa Report — ... counted out the four white guys, for the following reasons: MIKE DUNCAN : Mike Duncan is the current RNC Chairman, and sees no reason why he shouldn't stay right where he is. If you're fairly happy with the way things have been going lately for the GOP, there's no reason whatsoever to change leadership. If you're one of us who are NOT so happy with the way things have been going lately, a leadership change would seem to be in order. KATON DAWSON : Setting morality aside, Dawson's 12-year membership in a whites-only / gentiles-only country club would seem to evince a SEVERE ...

RNC Chair 'Appalled' at Gift of Magic Negro Song, But Why?
Politics Daily — ... When something like the Saltsman thing, or RNC chair candidate Katon Dawson's resignation from a whites-only country club days before the RNCC (after 12 years of membership), ...

RNC Race for Chairman Getting Hot
PoliPundit.com — ... National Committee that they would be the best candidate for the job. To my knowledge, the campaigns have been positive, with each candidate pretty much sticking to promoting their own plan for the future of the GOP, while touting their individual accomplishments and resume, instead of going negative on their opponents. In fact, in some cases, the candidates themselves have been their own worst enemy. Just a few weeks ago, it was revealed that South Carolina GOP Chairman and RNC Chairman candidate ...