Posted on 04/05/2010 4:06:50 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
Republican National Committee chief of staff Ken McKay has resigned in the wake of a controversy over an expenditure at a risque California nightclub, RNC communications director Doug Heye said Monday.
McKay's resignation comes one week after the Daily Caller Web site reported that the RNC's January expenditure report included nearly $2,000 spent at Voyeur in West Hollywood, a topless nightclub.
RNC officials worked to distance Chairman Michael Steele from the controversy -- insisting that not only was he not in attendance but that he had no knowledge of the reimbursement -- and promised changes in the way that people were reimbursed by the committee.
McKay's resignation appears to be the leading edge of those moves, and an attempt by Steele and the broader RNC to show donors worried about the stability of the committee that changes ares being made. McKay will be replaced by Mike Leavitt, a longtime party operative who had been serving as deputy chief of staff at the committee. Politico first reported the news of McKay's departure.
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When is Steele going to do the right thing?
drip, drip, drip.
Steele must go!
yes we want Steele!!!!!!
I could say the same thing about you. :)
NOW NOW NOW !
Will these clowns never wake up ?
A little Googling shows this place isn’t a stripper or booby bar, but is some kind of Hollyweird thing. It’s a club that seems to attract a male and female crowd with, as usual, more money to spend than they know what to do with.
WaPo is on a crusade vs. Republicans and a Black Man... a twofer.
Yep. It’s hard to overcome those handy stereotypes.
That’s my take as well.
Who is Joseph Smith? (the name on the statement)
I don’t think I’ve ever agreed with Bobby Gibbs on anything until now.
LLS
The buck does not stop with Steele, it stops with McKay! Steele has got to go, whether he is black or white?
What a great reply, to send this in instead of money. Do you think they will get the message?
Don’t know .. Michelle Malkin has it
on her website.
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