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!
Fixed it
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.
5.56mm
Good bye, good riddance.
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.
Mel is my p.o.s. senator.
He is a worthless amnesty loving turd that isn’t worth spit.
Leave the R.N.C. leave the senate, leave the country.
Worthless is to good a discription for this scumbag.
Why wait Mel? You are a total failure and one of Bush’s biggest political mistakes. You couldn’t raise a dime and you chased the base away with your thirst to kiss the asses of illegal aliens. Just get the @#$% out now while lots of people don’t even know your name. The GOP missed its chance by putting this fool in that slot instead of Mike Steel. Maybe we can still get somebody who can do the job in there, but in the meanwhile Mel just go now!
Why wait? Get lost now you traitorous creep!
The presidential candidate usually chooses who will serve in this role once they get the nomination. This is nothing new. And given Martinez’s HUGE disconnet on amnesty has earned him so much animosity it’s affecting donations, I doubt even a pro-amnesty candidate would want to keep him as a symbolic head. As for the real guy running operations, he shouldn’t count on keeping his job either.
Now if we could get rid of him in Florida everyone would be happy.