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The Saturday Word: The Latest Deal
The Caucus —
... weekly address this morning. He said the stimulus involved too much “uncontrolled spending” without some of the Republican-supported tax cuts. “Republicans stand ready to work with reasonable Democrats to do what is right for America,” he said. “But it will take more than bipartisan words from the President. It will require fair-minded action from Democrats in Congress.” [Mr. Steele’s spending during his 2006 Senate bid in Maryland, by the way, is subject to an investigation, The Washington Post reports.] The message underscores the point made by The Times’s ...
Now Talking on Sunday, the R.N.C. Chief
The Caucus —
... “He acts like we have spent the last eight years in the mess that we’re currently in,” Mr. Steele said. “This is about 18 months old. The reality of it is, Bush inherited a recession. He got us through that recession.” “And I didn’t hear anything from Mr. Summers that assured me or reassured me that this administration gets it when it comes to how you create wealth in this nation,” he added. Mr. Steele also dismissed allegations of financial impropriety made by a former aide on the front page of The Washington Post on Saturday. Mr. Steele expressed disgust for the article, in ...
Michael Steele Strikes Back At Washington Post Smear Job - With Video
Pat Dollard | Young Americans —
... The story, published in Saturday’s Washington Post, reports that Alan Fabian, Steele’s former campaign finance chairman, told federal investigators that Steele arranged for the campaign to pay his sister’s defunct company for services that were never performed. ...
Matt Lewis: They Do Catering and Web Services
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog —
... of more than $37,000 to his sister's company. While I have no reason to doubt his word, I must confess that expenses are a bit unusual. For example, I've never heard of a single consulting firm that specializes in "catering" ...
The First Time I Heard About Michael Steele (and His Sister)
Political Punch —
... (Steele, chairman of the Prince George's County GOP and an African-American, was running for the chairmanship of Maryland's Republican State Committee, though he withdrew from the race that same day. He has no apparent plans to run for Congress.)" At the time, Tyson was married to Steele's sister, Monica Turner. Now, however, Steele is chair of the RNC and his former finance chair from his unsuccessful 2006 Senate race is questioning payments Steele made to Turner's company, as reported by the Washington Post . The former finance chair, Alan Fabian, claimed that Steele made ...
Monday's campaign round-up
Political Animal —
MONDAY'S CAMPAIGN ROUND-UP.... Today's installment of campaign-related news items that wouldn't generate a post of their own, but may be of interest to political observers. * The newly-elected chairman of the Republican National Committee, Michael Steele, is already facing his first scandal , with new evidence of suspicious expenditures from his 2006 Senate campaign in Maryland. Steele has ...
Steele's bizarro world
Political Animal —
... , "Only someone who threw his campaign kitty around like a drunken sailor on make-work projects for his family while he was going down in flames at the polls would call assistance for the uninsured and food for the needy bling.") But the other part of the quote is just as odd. The president has to "shore up support from Democrats"? He's "upside-down" in the polls? For one thing, both Democratic ...
The Elephant In The Room-- Michael Steele Is A Crook
DownWithTyranny! —
... On February 7, just a week after Steele was elected, the Washington Post reported in a front-page story that Alan Fabian, the finance chairman of Steele's unsuccessful 2006 run for the U.S. Senate, told federal prosecutors that Steele "arranged for his 2006 Senate campaign to pay a defunct company run by his sister for services that were never performed." The day after the Post story appeared, Steele, speaking on ABC's "This Week," said the money-- it was about $37,000-- was "a legitimate reimbursement of expenses" for catering and other services provided by his sister's ...
