Posted on 01/31/2009 12:20:24 PM PST by Salvation
1. Michael Steele, who was adopted as an infant, was born at Andrews Air Force Base in Prince George's County, Md., on Oct. 19, 1958.
2. He grew up in a family of Democrats. Steele credits his mother, Maebell, and Ronald Reagan with turning him toward the Republican Party.
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3. One of the first in his family to go to college, he earned a bachelor's degree in international relations from Johns Hopkins University and a law degree from Georgetown University Law Center. Steele also spent a few years at the Augustinian Friars Seminary at Villanova University, --snip--
4. After graduating from law school in 1991, Steele joined Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, an international law firm, based in Washington, D.C. In 1997, --snip--
5. Steele rose quickly in the Republican Party, beginning at the local level in Prince George's County as chair of the Prince George's County Republican Central Committee from 1994 to 2000. --snip--.
6. Steele became the first African-American elected to statewide office in Maryland, taking office as lieutenant governor in January 2003.
7. In 2004, Steele was tapped to speak at the Republican National Convention, --snip--
8. When Sen. Paul Sarbanes, a Democrat, announced he would not seek re-election, several prominent Republicans, --snip-- persuaded Steele to run for the Senate seat. In November 2006, --snip--
9. On Feb. 1, 2007, Steele was named the chairman of GOPAC, a political action committee working to elect Republicans to office --snip--
10. A devout Catholic, Steele is a member of St. Mary's Catholic Church in Landover Hills, Md. He regularly attends services with his wife, Andrea, and their sons, Michael and Drew.
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Sources:
The Associated Press State & Local Wire
The Baltimore Sun
Contemporary Black Biography
GOPAC: Chairman's Corner
GOPAC: History
GOPAC: Newsroom
Maryland Office of the Governor
Maryland Republican Party
Maryland State Archives
Michael Steele for Maryland
Red County Magazine: 10 Questions with Michael Steele
The Washington Post
Who's Who Among African Americans
I know Mike he is an outstanding individual and actually a much better qualified person to be POTUS than the Obamanation of Desolation.
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In looking at this list, I would completely agree.
Now that the Democratic Party ATTACK MACHINE did their best with Sarah Palin (finding NOTHING)--
they now have some free time to be unleashed to look for dirt and smut on Steele.
Isn’t Michael Steele the one that the “tolerant, open minded” democrats used to throw Oreo Cookies at?
I’m happy a genuine conservative was elected. That he’s black is just icing on the cake.
Them man is a mensch...good for us getting h8im in the role...I think it is not a case of just getting a black guy, but a qualified man for the job...it doesn’t hurt that he’s black, but he will be written off as an OREO anyway by the black ObamaBOTS...maybe someday they will realize that being infantilized by the liberals is bad for them...God help them if they get this new “Great Society” social welfare package pushed through...
Q: Do you think the time for affirmative action is past?
Steele: Absolutely not. We’re just beginning to rediscover what we should be doing with affirmative action. Don’t look at our universities. We got that. Let’s look at our boardrooms, let’s look at the management structure.
Source: Len Lazarick, The Examiner, “Power of the individual” Apr 28, 2006
I have been a Mike Steele fan for awhile, but I never knew he was a Roman Catholic, or that he attended a Friary.
So did Luc the Vietnamese Republican who won in New Orleans, he almost was a Jesuit.
Interesting times indeed!
Let me guess. I bet his clergy doesn’t talk about chickens coming home to roost and Americans creating AIDS on purpose to hurt black people.
“God help them if they get this new “Great Society” social welfare package pushed through...”
Sorry, I meant “Obama’s trillion-dollar DEBACLE.”
“Let me guess. I bet his clergy doesn’t talk about chickens coming home to roost and Americans creating AIDS on purpose to hurt black people.”
Hahahahaha. No, he finds that kind of hate speech as disturbing as most thinking people do...
Interesting facts that not many knew.
Will he be put down because he is Catholic and pro-lige?
I hope...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2175799/posts?page=4#4
Please read the links there. I bet his Catholic Clergy DOES talk about pro-life and other consevative issues.
...and pray...
Mike is very savvy over financial issues and economics and was running for State Comptroller of MD when I first met him. Lots of Marylanders are beginning to have buyers regret over Martian O’Malley another pompous empty windbag.
“Please read the links there. I bet his Catholic Clergy DOES talk about pro-life and other consevative issues.”
I don’t know about his personal position, but I know he probably would not have hung in with Wright for twenty years. I think that was the point...he’s no Obomber...
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