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.
This is a "should-have-been", post, not an "is-a-been."
But not 1980 and 1984 (or 88)? That omission is troubling.
Republicans already know how to do that. We need someone who can show them how to govern from the right like they were elected to do and keep a majority.
We know why Senor Martinez was plopped into this figurehead assignment, don't we?
The most critical job in the Republican Party at the most critical time in our history.......and a double-dipper (a "leader" who couldn't even animate Howard Dean on speed if he tried) gets the call.
We are NOT stupid, although the GOP elites and the White House operatives think we are.
Leni (Florida)
Regards, Ivan
Then he's lucky he doesn't have a Spanish surname.
But not 1980 and 1984 (or 88)? That omission is troubling.
Quite. Next question is, was he in a position during that time frame that would have precluded his active participation?
Michael Steele is for affirmative action; I'm not sure that's the face we want on our party.
Bump to all that.
If you believe that, maybe you do need to stay home.
I'm sure the incredibly poor 2006 showing with the Hispanic vote played a role (unfair or not, anti-illegals comes off as anti-Hispanic) but I think Duncan was the choice, but he didn't want to do all the media crap. That's why they announced it in this order: to downplay Duncan.
The Republican Party has a death wish and it will be up to we conservatives to save the party from total destruction.
You are so right. With Chafee and Dewine gone it is time to take more action as there are a slew of Rinos up in 2008.
Here is what we need to do to achieve a filibuster proof conservative US Senate in 2008.
We have to get rid of the following rinos, Lindsey Graham, Susan Collins, Warner, Lamar Alexander, Libby Dole, Smith from Oregon, that bridge to nowhere Stevens guy, Chuck Hagel, and Sununu, Domenici and McConnell in the republican primaries.
Then we need to hold all 21 of our seats.
Then we need to win 11 out of the following 12 democrat seats (Arkansas: Pryor (D) Delaware: Biden (D) Illinois: Durbin (D) Iowa: Harkin (D) Louisiana: Landrieu (D) Massachusetts: Kerry (D) Michigan: Levin (D) Montana: Baucus (D) New Jersey: Lautenberg (D) Rhode Island: Reed (D) South Dakota: Johnson (D) West Virginia: Rockefeller (D) )
That makes 60 for us !
I read your thread about Mel; very thoughtful, Spiff.
I obviously didn't read enough about Steele before I said he'd be good as the RNC head.
He's against the death penalty?
I'll take a pass on him.
The most critical job in the Republican Party at the most critical time in our history.......and a double-dipper (a "leader" who couldn't even animate Howard Dean on speed if he tried) gets the call.
We are NOT stupid, although the GOP elites and the White House operatives think we are.
Well said, Leni.
FloRida FReeper FRegards,
Dave
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