Posted on 11/14/2006 7:54:28 AM PST by Dems_R_Losers
Robert M. (Mike) Duncan was confirmed as General Counsel of the Republican National Committee in July 2002 and January 2005. He previously was elected Treasurer of the RNC in January 2001. Duncan, in his fourth term as National Committeeman from Kentucky, has served the party at every level from precinct captain, county chairman, state chairman, and national officer. He has been a delegate to the 1972, 1976, 1992, 1996, 2000 and 2004 Republican National Conventions and is one of the few persons ever to serve on the four standing convention committees. Duncan was elected chairman of the Convention Credentials Committee in 2000 after chairing the RNC Committee on Contests for the Convention. He served as General Counsel to the 2004 Convention.
Mike Duncan has worked for Republican candidates for local, state and national office for over thirty years. In 1998 he took a leave of absence from his business and chaired Jim Bunning’s winning U.S. Senate race. Duncan is a long-time supporter and fundraiser for Senator Mitch McConnell and has worked in various campaign positions for Presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush. In 2000 he chaired the Southern Republican Leadership Conference. Duncan was the Central States Chairman for the 2000 Bush-Cheney campaign, working in Kentucky, West Virginia, Indiana, Ohio and Michigan. Duncan chaired the transition team for Governor-Elect Ernie Fletcher, the first Republican elected Governor in Kentucky in 36 years.
A civic capitalist, Mike Duncan is active in numerous professional and nonprofit organizations. He served as chairman of a state university and a private college. President Bush appointed him to the President’s Commission on White House Fellows in 2001 and nominated him to the Corporation for National and Community Service in 2005. Recently the U.S. Secretary of Commerce appointed Duncan to the Advisory Committee of the Strengthening America’s Communities Initiative. Duncan is a Trustee of the Christian Appalachian Project, the fifteenth largest private social services agency in America. Professionally, Duncan was President of the Kentucky Bankers Association and a Director of the Cleveland Federal Reserve Bank Cincinnati Branch. In 1989-90, during a sabbatical, he worked in the Bush White House as assistant Director of Public Liaison. His public service has been recognized with several distinctions including honorary degrees from Cumberland College and the College of the Ozarks.
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 child, Rob, an Assistant United States Attorney in Lexington, Kentucky. The Duncan’s are the principal owners of two community banks with five offices in eastern Kentucky. Their student-mentoring program, in its twenty-eighth year, was featured on CBS Sunday Morning and in the Los Angeles Times.
Be careful what you wish for. You may very well 'get' death then. Those of you that join the 'stay at home and don't vote group', rather than vote for a non-conservative Republican, could very well be handing a death sentence to at least part of America and even to yourself (if you're lucky enough to be in the area that gets nuked by terrorists). By handing the reins of control over to the socialist left, you'll be contributing to the cause of those deaths.
At least if you vote against the leftists, you've done something to thwart them in their attempts to hamper our efforts to protect America and Americans, even if it doesn't work and we still lose the election.
Otherwise, when the country finally does go down the toilet, you'll be one of those that can 'take credit' for the flushing.
I wouldn't want to be in your shoes when that day comes. And make no mistake. It's coming. It's just a question of time now, thanks to the idiots that would rather have socialists running the country than RINOs.
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I agree. When you receive mail advising you to hold your nose and vote, I recommend you return it to sender.
I am hoping we will find a true conservative for 08 and if not, I will have to join the stay at home group.
The McBrains and, the Giulianist are the reason the GOP is divided today, they will only make the situation worse.
Give me conservatism or give me death!!!!!!!!!
No. Mel Martinez is still a dreadful choice to be the face of the Republican party.
Call the White House Comment line 1-202-456-1111 and the RNC 202-863-8500.
I told the WH line to stand up, be strong and Lead! We want to win and to tell Bush to tell the Baker Commission to stick it in their ear. I said Martinez should stay home and legislate for Florida, bad choice.
We need a human dynamo, not a wimp.
I told the RNC to make the President aware of all the empty envelopes returned with notes telling them that we are sick of the RINO's!! Bush needs to know!
Call. it can't hurt!
And after that, part the seas or walk on water...
win in the cobalt blue NE?
Really, I don't see even one of those 12 popular Democrats who can be unseated. People like those Democrat incumbents in the Senate from those particular states, each for their own reasons.
You let the other Republican candidates know that because of their party's action, NONE of them will be receiving your support- electoral, financial or volunteer- during this election cycle. And that in future elections, you'll consider untarnished newcomers to be more deserving of your support than those who've sold us out.
When the choice is between two non-choices, pull neither lever. If the entire ballot slate is packed with non-choices, just remember that there's nothing that requires you to choose a liar, cheat or fraudster from either party.
win in the cobalt blue NE?
Martinez isn't the face of the Republican Party.
George W. Bush is.
In 2008 that attitude will elect Hillary.
This is a great post and informative. I thank you for posting it. It adds to the level of knowledge.
Mr. Duncan sounds like a fine individual and what he did in Kentucky is impressive. Most of what you say about him in Kentucky is great. Can you tell me what he has done in Washington? Does he bear any responsibility for what happened in the election last week? I ask because I don't know.
I still wish there were someone at the RNC who can be an effective spokesperson.
There will be many challenges in court in 2008. Martinez has 25 years experience litigating. With Martinez and Duncan, the Republican have a strong legal team at the top.
We have to work from now till election day to get a viable candidate. I worry for the future of the great country.
I worry for the future of the great country.
I worry for the future of this great country.
>> Michael Steele is for affirmative action; I'm not sure that's the face we want on our party. <<
>> Steele is for affirmative action; I'm not sure that's the face we want on our party Ding! <<
LMAO. The rank hypocrisy here is startling. So let me get this straight. You guys OPPOSE Steele because of his position on affirmation action -- but you have no problem with Bush appointing Martinez BECAUSE of his skin color. Anyone who supports a political cipher like Martinez IS for affirmation action.
If you want to argue Martinez is in fact deserving of this promotion, please feel free to tell us about all his great fundraising and organization skills that set him far ahead of the pack. Let us know all about his shining moments as HUD Secretary and his first two years in the Senate that have capitivated America.
Melquíades Rafael Martínez would not have this job if his name was Melvin Ralph Martin and you know it, that's why you're happy the GOP wants to reduce him to a figurehead chairman. Sorry, I don't like this guy getting a bonus salary for ceremonial work.
Maryland is the bluest of the blue states and Steele ran a competative campaign there. Your hero Amnesty Mel eeked by with 49-48% in a RED state while Bush won 55% in the same campaign. Try putting your putting your buddy Mel in Maryland and let's see how hot his campaigning skills are. He'd be lucky to get over 35% in a statewide campaign.
So let me summartize your arguments. The GOP should practice affirmation action and select the only "hispanic" in high office for this promotion, but they should oppose Steele because he supports affirmation action. The official position of the GOP is "Affirmative Action is bad, unless it helps Mel's career". Brillant.
Is Mike Duncan for the President's and the U.S. Senate's amnesty for illegal immigrants legislation? If yes, then I'm fully against him!
Why don't you find one post where I said anything close to that, you damn liar.
I'll wait while you find it.
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