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RNC chief of staff Ken McKay resigns
washingtonpost.com ^ | April 5, 2010 | Chris Cillizza

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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Thanks Free ThinkerNY and SeattleBruce.
21 posted on 04/05/2010 5:08:24 PM PDT by SunkenCiv ("Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others." -- Otto von Bismarck)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

I think the reason the Republicans went to that particular nightclub was to see its star dancer, Nancy (the plastic surgeons cash cow) Pelosi and her new act entitled “How I Screwed the America People and Never Cracked My Face”.

Just image Pelosi doing a pole dance, or a lapdance. Excuse me - I’m going to hurl, hopefully on the troll Barbara Boxer.


22 posted on 04/05/2010 5:16:54 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Red Zone: first down, Steele to go.


23 posted on 04/05/2010 5:22:59 PM PDT by rfp1234
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To: colorado tanker

I am pretty sure that Sheperd Smith referred to it today as place that featured a lesbian act.


24 posted on 04/05/2010 5:27:45 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Palin/Hunter 2012 -- Bolton their Secretary of State)
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

I’d like to not lose what I ate today.


25 posted on 04/05/2010 5:33:20 PM PDT by wastedyears (The essence of training is to allow error without consequence.)
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To: Bigg Red

Well, it’s what they call in Hollywood, “edgy.” :-))


26 posted on 04/05/2010 5:35:43 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: La Enchiladita

I agree.


27 posted on 04/05/2010 5:35:56 PM PDT by keepitreal ( Don't tread on me.)
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To: rawhide

I frequently make a photocopy of my check and donation stub to a Conservative candidate and send it back to the RNC in their post paid envelope with a note; Here’s a copy of the check YOU AIN’T Getting until you stop throwing Constitutional Conservatives under your damn liberal / progressive / “moderate” bus!


28 posted on 04/05/2010 5:50:48 PM PDT by George Varnum (Liberty, like our Forefather's Flintlock Musket, must be kept clean, oiled, and READY!)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Michael Steele, will you please go?
You can go on stilts.
You can go by fish.
You can go in a Crunk-Car if you wish.


29 posted on 04/05/2010 5:57:38 PM PDT by counterpunch (The Emperor has no Cloture)
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To: Bainbridge
NOW NOW NOW !
Will these clowns never wake up ?

Dumping Steele would be a victory but it would be a short term victory. The RNC must be restructured. The root problem is each state gets 3 members on the RNC. Its a joke Vermont and Rhode Island are as well represented on the RNC as Texas and Georgia. Until this problem is fixed the RNC will never represent the grass roots.

30 posted on 04/05/2010 5:58:10 PM PDT by Brugmansian
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To: Free ThinkerNY

I got a fund raising letter in the mail today disguised as an account renewal. The outside was stamped PAST DUE and I couldn’t help but think that it certainly is past due... past due that these clowns are gone.

They aren’t getting another penny from me. I have used magic marker to tell them so on previous requests and said the same when called on the phone looking for money. (the last kid even got snotty with me).


31 posted on 04/05/2010 6:02:05 PM PDT by KarenMarie (NEVER believe anything coming out of DC until it's been denied.)
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To: Brugmansian

How would you suggest we structure representation— by population or by number of registered Republicans?


32 posted on 04/05/2010 6:03:48 PM PDT by sthguard (The DNC theme song: "All You Need is Guv")
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Is this for real? I mean, who thought it would be a good idea to go to someplace like this? Reckon they thought nobody would notice?

We are so screwed. With leadership like this we will get 4 more years of Obamalamadingdong.


33 posted on 04/05/2010 6:05:10 PM PDT by West Texas Chuck (US out of the UN - UN out of the US)
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To: sthguard

I don’t know. Just started looking into how the RNC is structured as the complaints (justified in my opinion) are worse than ever. Many, I suspect, don’t know why the RNC is so out of touch (I didn’t). Complaining might force Steele out but from what I see he is a symptom of how RNC members are proportioned. Endlessly complaining about the RNC hurts the conservative cause . Be better to fix what I think is the heart of the problem (3 RNC members from each state).

Perhaps a thread on this subject would help? Kick around some ideas on how the RNC can reflect the views of the majority of Republicans and not be hijacked by RINOS from New England?


34 posted on 04/05/2010 6:13:37 PM PDT by Brugmansian
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To: sthguard

Simple! By the number of Republicans in the House by State as a percentage of the total! If a State is freakin Blue with No Pubs, then they get zero representation! Steele was a failed Guper candidate in Maryland, the Pelosi State! he is a Trojan Horse! and a Lame, Blind One at that in the best case!


35 posted on 04/05/2010 6:14:21 PM PDT by True Republican Patriot (May GOD Continue to BLESS Our Great President George W. Bush!!)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Can't Karl Rove just step in and run the RNC until after the elections in November? What would that take?
36 posted on 04/05/2010 6:31:24 PM PDT by April Lexington (Study the constitution so you know what they are taking away!)
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To: True Republican Patriot

“Simple! By the number of Republicans in the House by State as a percentage of the total! If a State is freakin Blue with No Pubs, then they get zero representation!”

Hmm. I don’t think that will necessarily prevent RINO control, though— a given State House/Senate might have a 50-50 RNC-DNC split, but that doesn’t really tell us anything about the views of the constituents, let alone those of the potential delegates. Besides, in some cases it’s the states with an extreme Dem majority that need financial and organizational help from the RNC, since they don’t have enough support from in-state organizations. The last thing we want is to shut out an entire state completely, which would be blood in the water for Dem propaganda (”The Republicans don’t care about you” etc) and thoroughly reduce the chances of ever changing the political makeup of that state.

What about a compromise of sorts: let’s say two seats guaranteed to each state, as in the US Senate, but the remaining seats portioned out by registered voters or number of currently-serving GOP representatives?


37 posted on 04/05/2010 6:51:00 PM PDT by sthguard (The DNC theme song: "All You Need is Guv")
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To: counterpunch

I loved that book when I was a kid.

“You can go on a Zike-Bike, if you like!”


38 posted on 04/05/2010 7:33:44 PM PDT by Constitution Day
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To: Free ThinkerNY

BS wasn’t the answer to the problems in the old GOP, but times have obviously changed.

Get rid of Steele, and get the damned RINO’s out of the leadership of the GOP. Show us a party worthy of Conservative support.


39 posted on 04/05/2010 8:03:54 PM PDT by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists...Call 'em What you Will, They ALL have Fairies Living In Their Trees.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Do the right thing Ken. And soon. Election season is getting to full swing.


40 posted on 04/05/2010 9:05:22 PM PDT by CriticalJ (Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress.. But then I repeat myself. MT)
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