Posted on 11/14/2006 7:54:28 AM PST by Dems_R_Losers
Robert M. (Mike) Duncan was confirmed as General Counsel of the Republican National Committee in July 2002 and January 2005. He previously was elected Treasurer of the RNC in January 2001. Duncan, in his fourth term as National Committeeman from Kentucky, has served the party at every level from precinct captain, county chairman, state chairman, and national officer. He has been a delegate to the 1972, 1976, 1992, 1996, 2000 and 2004 Republican National Conventions and is one of the few persons ever to serve on the four standing convention committees. Duncan was elected chairman of the Convention Credentials Committee in 2000 after chairing the RNC Committee on Contests for the Convention. He served as General Counsel to the 2004 Convention.
Mike Duncan has worked for Republican candidates for local, state and national office for over thirty years. In 1998 he took a leave of absence from his business and chaired Jim Bunning’s winning U.S. Senate race. Duncan is a long-time supporter and fundraiser for Senator Mitch McConnell and has worked in various campaign positions for Presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush. In 2000 he chaired the Southern Republican Leadership Conference. Duncan was the Central States Chairman for the 2000 Bush-Cheney campaign, working in Kentucky, West Virginia, Indiana, Ohio and Michigan. Duncan chaired the transition team for Governor-Elect Ernie Fletcher, the first Republican elected Governor in Kentucky in 36 years.
A civic capitalist, Mike Duncan is active in numerous professional and nonprofit organizations. He served as chairman of a state university and a private college. President Bush appointed him to the President’s Commission on White House Fellows in 2001 and nominated him to the Corporation for National and Community Service in 2005. Recently the U.S. Secretary of Commerce appointed Duncan to the Advisory Committee of the Strengthening America’s Communities Initiative. Duncan is a Trustee of the Christian Appalachian Project, the fifteenth largest private social services agency in America. Professionally, Duncan was President of the Kentucky Bankers Association and a Director of the Cleveland Federal Reserve Bank Cincinnati Branch. In 1989-90, during a sabbatical, he worked in the Bush White House as assistant Director of Public Liaison. His public service has been recognized with several distinctions including honorary degrees from Cumberland College and the College of the Ozarks.
Mike Duncan and his wife Joanne are 1974 graduates of the University of Kentucky College of Law. They live in Inez, Kentucky and have one child, Rob, an Assistant United States Attorney in Lexington, Kentucky. The Duncan’s are the principal owners of two community banks with five offices in eastern Kentucky. Their student-mentoring program, in its twenty-eighth year, was featured on CBS Sunday Morning and in the Los Angeles Times.
In the late 1970s, Mike was president of the Kentucky Young Republicans and I was chairman of the College Republicans. While I have never been close to him personally, I have followed his political and business career with great interest. I recommend that you all read more about him. He is an unusual person with unusual ability, integrity and honor.
The main thing you need to know about Mike is that he is one of the chief architects of the modern Kentucky Republican Party. In the 1970s, when we were starting out, the Kentucky GOP held only one Congressional seat, no statewide offices, no Senate seats, and only 8 of 50 seats in the state Senate. Today, in no small part due to Mike Duncan's work, Republicans hold both U.S. Senate seats, 4 of 6 Congressional seats, the governorship, and the state Senate. Mike is a tremendous party builder. He knows how to take a party from minority to majority status.
Here is a link to an article that will show you the other side of Mike. Even while he was concentrating on his business, building a community bank in a small Kentucky mountain town, Mike was a great public servant and mentor to dozens of people.
Too bad he wouldn't consider a run for President.
McCain are Guliani (sp) are social liberals.
We have enough of that. That's destroying our country. I refuse to vote for more of it - no matter what!
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I'm sure Mr. Duncan is a great guy but the GOP needed a fresh new face. Michael Steele would have energized the party and been a great spokesman. Also, Steele would have gotten people to at least listen to a different viewpoint who would have otherwise not bothered.
It appears the Republican party has lost it's way.
I hope Steele finds another office to run for. He is a good guy.
Thanks for the post...
Martinez will be the fundraising figure head.
This guy will be running the nuts and bolts.
Mr. Martinez already has a full time job, (U.S. Senator - FL), so one wonders how he could take on another job with full time responsibilities. It appears he was just named RNC chair to garner the hispanic vote.
Bur now we have the answer. As the title of this post suggests, Mr. Duncan is the one who will be doing the actual work.
This raises an interesting point...one with which I myself have been struggling, for I feel as you do.
But what if the "choice" is An anti-gun, pro-abortion RINO.....versus.... HILLARY? What then? You know that any real third party effort will still hand the Oval Office to the RATs. But you just know inside your heart that the RINO, whomever it turns out to be is going to absolutely destroy our civil liberties and take the guns and vote us into a NWO agreement with the UN. What do you do? Throw away your vote? NOT VOTE (that's a vote, too... BTW)? What? I don't know, speaking for myself.
Martinez is still in, but he will serve as the "General Chair" and act as a fundraiser and go on the talk shows, Duncan will be the Chairman and handle the nuts and bolts stuff of day to day operations.
The real conservatives must take action in the primaries. Let's get rid of the RINO's and we'll defeat the democrats.
And so, all that knee-jerking yesterday seems pretty stupid, doesn't it?
Conservatives have to stop this "palatable candidate" B.S. and start voting for REAL conservative Republicans in the primaries! That was my motivation for voting for Alan Keyes in 2000.
Primaries are the time for action.
Primaries are the time for action.
Primaries are the time for action.
Keep saying it...
Work like the dickens to keep that from happening. If the party chooses McCain, as distasteful to me as it is, I would vote for him, particularly against Hillary...But I will do my utmost hardest to keep that from being a reality...like the rest of us should.
Some people have been saying Steele should have gotten the nod as RNC Chair because he at least has run a state Republican Party. So has Mike Duncan, and unlike Steele he actually got results in winning elections and built a successful state party. Kentucky used to look like Maryland with total Democratic domination. It doesn't anymore.
Duncan has never been an ideological guy, he has been all about the nuts and bolts of organizing and winning elections. He will be unassailable by the media. When he is called upon to speak, he will be good. He's a handsome guy and well spoken.
The best thing about Duncan, IMO, is that he is a guy who has been close to some very powerful Republicans for many years but has never personally tried to cash in on it. His son is a U.S. attorney back in Kentucky, not a loaded lobbyist in Washington. Mike has maintained his home in Inez and commuted to Washington for his RNC duties. He is not a "Washington guy." He will be a great example for America of a Republican who has led a life of true public service and integrity, while also being a terrific political strategist and organizer.
He won 25 percent of the Black vote.
It was the cracker vote that cost him...
I agree. When you receive mail advising you to hold your nose and vote, I recommend you return it to sender.
I am hoping we will find a true conservative for 08 and if not, I will have to join the stay at home group.
The McBrains and, the Giulianist are the reason the GOP is divided today, they will only make the situation worse.
Give me conservatism or give me death!!!!!!!!!
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