Posted on 09/29/2007 7:05:38 AM PDT by Sybeck1
Sen. Mel Martinez of Florida, who was named general chairman of the Republican Party only nine months ago, has advised associates that he will leave the post as soon as somebody clinches the party's presidential nomination. That probably will come after the Feb. 5 primary elections next year.
When Martinez took the party post Jan. 19, it was expected he would stay on through the 2008 elections as the GOP's principal national spokesman. Many Republicans now grumble that Martinez has been ineffective in that role, partly because he has been drowned out by the many presidential hopefuls.
Kentucky lawyer Mike Duncan, who came on board with Martinez as chairman of the Republican National Committee, is expected to remain running day-to-day operations at national party headquarters for the balance of his two-year term.
I think his hard illegal immigration stand might have something to do with it.
Mel, don’t let the door hit you in the @ss!
Thank you Mel for abusing the Republican party, conservatives and people in general. Pick up your parting gift at the door and keep moving.
Why wait, Mel? Just leave NOW.
Good riddance Mel... you sum’bit¢h!
How true, he’s not offering any help. Jeff Sessions should be in his post.
Fixed it
Agree that Sessions would be great as GOP chair
Martinez has been abyssmal....his pro-illegal stance is truly anti-American, and doubtful he will win re-election in 2010...much less run...his Senate seat
Also, he has weakened Florida’s political influence on a national level.
Unfortunately, the President has the say in the GOP chair, and not the party members. There probably will be another pro-illegal/anti-American in the chair
In my lifetime I don’t think there’s been a party head in either party who’s done more harm to the party .. his immigration stand, backed by the president and some high profile nominal Republicans, has been a total disaster.
The 2006 election was bad enough, but choosing to alienate the base was downright stupid. He should leave now.
This presents a perfect opportunity to put a solid conservative in charge of the RNC.
But will the pubs have the intelligence to do this? 70-30 no.
“Martinez has been abyssmal....his pro-illegal stance is truly anti-American, and doubtful he will win re-election in 2010...much less run...his Senate seat”
Yes! And I will be looking forward to working for a real conservative who hopefully will run for Martinez seat in 2010!
5.56mm
Good bye, good riddance.
That and that the Republicans are not getting squat for donation due to their stupidity on illegal immigration, and generally being corrupt and balless.
Sen. Mel Martinez of Florida, who was named general chairman of the Republican Party only nine months ago...
this guy will be leaving the republicans and join the lib/dems to ensure all illegals will get amnesty and all freebies!!!!
“Kentucky lawyer Mike Duncan, who came on board with Martinez as chairman of the Republican National Committee, is expected to remain running day-to-day operations at national party headquarters for the balance of his two-year term.”
http://www.gop.com/About/Bio.aspx?id=3
RNC Chairman Mike Duncan
Robert M. (Mike) Duncan, a 30-year political strategist and veteran of Republican politics, was elected as the 60th Chairman of the Republican National Committee in January 2007.
Duncan has worked for and advised Republican candidates and parties at the local, state and national level his entire adult life. He has held a wide variety of positions at the RNC, most recently as General Counsel and before that, Treasurer. During his career, he has served on the campaigns of five Presidents, including Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush. He has been a delegate to six Republican National Conventions and is one of the few persons ever to serve on four standing convention committees.
Chairman Duncan’s service has extended to the federal government. In 1989-90, during a sabbatical from his banking career, he worked in the George H. W. Bush White House as assistant Director of Public Liaison. President George W. Bush appointed him to the President’s Commission on White House Fellows in 2001 and nominated him to the Tennessee Valley Authority Board, a position to which he was unanimously confirmed by the United States Senate in March 2006.
Duncan has been equally active in his home state of Kentucky, where he helped in the successful campaign to win back Kentucky’s statehouse for the first time in 36 years. In 1998 he took a leave of absence from his business and chaired Jim Bunning’s successful U.S. Senate race. In addition Duncan is a long-time supporter and fundraiser for Senator Mitch McConnell.
A civic capitalist, Chairman Duncan is active in numerous professional and nonprofit organizations. He served as board chairman of a state university and a private college. He is a Trustee of the Christian Appalachian Project, the 15th largest private social services agency in America. His public service has been recognized with several distinctions, including honorary degrees from the College of the Ozarks, Cumberland College, and Morehead State University. His student-mentoring program, in its 28th year, has been featured on CBS Sunday Morning and in The Los Angeles Times.
The Duncan family is the principal owner of two community banks with five offices in eastern Kentucky. Chairman Duncan has served as President of the Kentucky Bankers Association and as a Director of the Cleveland Federal Reserve Bank Cincinnati Branch.
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 son, Rob, an Assistant United States Attorney in Lexington, Kentucky, who is married to Valerie Ridder of Springfield, Missouri.
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