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.
Yep, Steele would have been a home run.
He's a good man. I've had occasion to meet him, several times in fact, and he always came across as modest but very confident.
--Is he straight?--
Cue the "No Pooftahs" images from Monty Python...
--Really, I don't see even one of those 12 popular Democrats who can be unseated. People like those Democrat incumbents in the Senate from those particular states, each for their own reasons.--
They only chance to dump Baucus and others like him is for serious GOP voters to emigrate en masse (for example, from the Oregon Socialist Republic to Montana).
A governorship isn't going to mean anything on the national scene. But it is something, I suppose.
Yes, he has been a supporter although I've heard that he may have pulled back from that position. - I don't have any proof of that bavkpedaling.
Yes, because the position of party chairman is famous throughout history for making key policy decisions, right?
Martinez's job as Senator is far, far more influential to immigration policy than his job as RNC Chairman ever will be.
Why didn't they name him to head RNC -- I think he will do a very good job but so much so I think he should be fully in charge.
Actions speaker louder than words.
The Condi Rice fan club isn't drooling the idea of running any white male for President with Condi's background (pro-abortion, pro-affirmative action, weak on Isreal) and the Martinez fan club here wouldn't be caught dead supporting a first term white male Senator who was as big a screwup as Martinez. Hell, if Lindsey Graham was tapped for the job, they'd be calling for Bush's head on a platter, and he's FAR more qualified than Martinez and just as "conservative".
I don't care what you say. Martinez's resume and your support of him tells me all I need to know about why you back this guy, and it sure ain't his qualifications.
Pres. Bush is making too many decisions while he's in shock. Every step since the rats won Congress has been a misstep. How 'bout some down time at the ranch to listen to the base and to think things through. Pres. Bush's problem was not the freefall in the Mexican vote, and cynically putting Mel Martinez in a token position won't win back a vote.
The governor controls who counts the votes.
Thats really helped us in Vermont...
Thats a given. I don't see your point.
The result of the proding of McConnell, no doubt. That alone makes me nervous.
That said, I do like Duncan. I have met this guy before at Party functions. He's without a doubt likeable.
Do we know of other palatable Republicans from the fly-over states that may fit the bill, who may also be RINO free?
The RNC had better tread lightly at this point in time with 2/3's of the GOP still furious with them.
It won't take much to manafest yet another Perot or Bucannan movement to take hold and split the Party even further asunder.
My point is that it's useless to complain about Martinez's position on immigration, given that immigration policy is outside the scope of the position of RNC Chairman. Whatever his voting record is, it has no bearing on his actions as RNC Chairman--namely, distributing money to candidates who can win.
I agree.
Bush is REACTING; not thinking.
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