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
Opinion: Michael Steele, Black, Pro-Life Catholic Takes the Helm of the G.O.P.
Catholic Michael Steele (former seminarian) takes over leadership of RNC
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!