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On January 14, this Friday, the leadership of the Republican National Committee will vote on who will be the new chairman. Michael Steele has been one of the most ineffective and damaging chairmen that the Republican party has allowed to lead its chief fundraising organization in recent history. His chairmanship includes: baffling statements on race and culture (lampooned quite well by the Daily Show below)USAToday's own request for his change of parties due to his own conflicted beliefs and history[RINOList.org]two different sex club scandals [Dailycaller.com] & [TheDailyBeast.com]factually inaccurate public statements on the War in Afghanistan [Talkingpointsmemo.com]massive debt in the Republican...

The next chairman of the Republican National Committee will face a money-raising challenge of historic proportions. The unreleased official budget of the RNC reveals that the Republican Party's national governing body and premier fundraising apparatus begins the 2011-12 presidential election cycle more than $20 million in the hole. "A record for any year in the past 30 years," Maria Cino, a candidate for the RNC chairmanship and a former deputy transportation secretary, told The Washington Times. The budget was approved by RNC Chairman Michael S. Steele's Budget Committee. The document also reveals that the RNC will enter the 2012 presidential...

Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele faces an all-but-impossible path to reelection this month, as a majority of the RNC’s 168 members indicate that they will not support the controversial chairman for another term. A weeklong canvass of the party’s governing board by POLITICO revealed 88 members who have decided not to vote for Steele, either opting to support one of his opponents or simply ruling out Steele as a choice in the race. Fifty-five members, some of whom have endorsed one of Steele’s challengers, have signaled that they will not support the chairman under any circumstances. An additional 33...

GOP Chair Candidate Cino Explains Helping Pro-Abortion Group Washington, DC - Republican Party chairman candidate Maria Cino became the final candidate for the national party chairman position to interview with the Susan B. Anthony List, a pro-life political group. http://www.lifenews.com/2010/12/31/gop-chair-candidate-cino-explains-helping-pro-abortion-group/

When Ann Wagner, the former United States ambassador to Luxembourg, returned from abroad in 2009, she felt that she has not entirely left Europe behind. “I felt, after I left, that perhaps socialism had begun to follow me across the pond,” she told The Daily Caller in a phone interview. In an attempt to help end what she views as the government’s overreach during President Barack Obama’s tenure, Wagner is running for chair of the Republican National Committee.

More than one-third of RNC members have publicly stated their intentions. According to The Hotline’s latest whip count, Michael Steele continues to fall behind former Wisconsin GOP chair Reince Priebus in his bid to maintain his position as chair of the Republican National Committee (RNC). Iowan Gentry Collins has picked up one delegate, bringing his total to three and leaving him badly trailing in the race for the RNC’s top spot.As of Monday, Priebus was publicly supported by 22 voting RNC delegates, compared to only 12 behind Steele. Former Michigan Republican chair Saul Anuzis is breathing right down Steele’s neck...

Michael Steele, the embattled chairman of the national Republican Party, says he will participate in a January 3 debate co-sponsored by a leading pro-life organization.Steele confirmed today to the Daily Caller, a conservative news web site that is sponsoring the debate with the pro-life Susan B. Anthony List and Americans for Tax Reform, that he will face off with five rivals seeking to lead the party against pro-abortion President Barack Obama.The confirmation is surprising because some party insiders speculated Steele would not participate but would defend his record in private before the 168 members of the Republican National Committee...

Michael Steele Must Go!. Sign the Petition! HERE Michael Steele: Afghanistan is "War of Obama's Choosing" Steele: Abortion an 'individual choice' Candidates Line Up for RNC Chairmanship Steele Says Blacks Have 'No Reason' to Vote Republican Black Conservative Group Launches Petition Drive To Remove RNC Chairman Michael Steele VIDEO: MICHAEL STEELE SAYS REPUBLICANS "AFRAID" OF HIM (video)Video: Steele says being black gives him "slimmer margin for error" at RNC (video) Probe of Steele spending sought RNC exec Gentry Collins resigns, attacks Michael Steele Michael Steele: GOP won't win House Op-Ed: Michael Steele Must Go!

All four of the formally declared candidates for the Chairmanship of the Republican National Committee (RNC) have confirmed their participation in the Monday, January 3 debate at the National Press Club. Hosted by Americans for Tax Reform and The Daily Caller, the debate will begin at 1:00 p.m. ET. As of today at Noon, the formally declared candidates are Saul Anuzis, Maria Cino, Reince Priebus, and Ann Wagner. The event details are as follows: When: Monday, January 3, 2011 from 1:00 pm – 2:30 p.m. ET (Doors open at Noon). Where: National Press Club (529 14th St. NW), 13th Floor,...

Here is video of RNC Chair Michael Steele being asked if he has given consideration to stepping aside as Chair of the Republican National Committee. Steele said, "I ain't going anywhere." He also said he and his fellow Republicans have a fundamentally different view of America. Steele said he believes we are an "exceptional people," while President Obama, Nancy Pelosi, and Harry Reid "have a different view." Uh, we’ll see if Republicans agree that he should stay.

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Black Conservative Group Launches Petition Drive To Remove RNC Chairman Michael Steele Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson, Founder and President of BOND Action, a national 501 (c) (4) nonprofit organization created to educate, motivate, and rally Americans to greater involvement in the moral and political issues that threaten America, announced today that his group is launching a “Michael Steele Must Go!” petition drive. Rev. Peterson was one of the first Republicans to publicly call for embattled RNC Chairman Michael Steele to step down last January, citing his financial mismanagement and lack of conservative convictions to lead the committee. “I am encouraging...

<p>Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele stunned friends and foes Monday by launching a fight to keep his job.</p> <p>Steele discussed his decision during a conference call Monday night with members of the Republican National Committee.</p>

A member of the Republican National Committee's top panel will call for an investigation of RNC Chairman Michael S. Steele's spending, warning that "cronyism" dried up big-donor fundraising this year and now is jeopardizing major-donor fundraising for the 2012 GOP presidential nominating convention in Tampa, Fla. Oregon RNC member Solomon Yue will call on the group's executive committee to freeze hiring and spending and review all RNC contracts. "We know the RNC's big donors left us in this election cycle because Steele pocketed speaking fees and book royalties, and because he hired aides and friends - and paid them two...

Saul Anuzis has announced he's running for chairmanship of the Republican National Committee. The former chairman of the Michigan Republican Party pits himself against sitting RNC Chairman Michael Steele. Anuzis garnered respect in the state for employing strategies resulting in recent Republican takeovers of the governorship, state House of Representatives and Michigan Supreme Court, expanding the party's majority in the state Senate and increasing the GOP congressional delegation by two seats. As a staunch advocate for net neutrality, however, Anuzis rows against the tide established by the majority of his party. (It should be noted that on Nov. 2, all...

If nothing else has proven that Republican National Committee Chair Michael Steele is not in tune with the GOP today, his recent statements on the Tea Party movement should serve as exhibit number one. Showing that he has no clue the effect that the Tea Party movement had on the 2010 elections, in a five-page memo to committee members last week, Steele said that the GOP saved the day by stopping Tea Partiers from going third party in 2010. Daily Caller excerpted Steele's comments on Nov. 20. "The RNC," Steele told the members, "welcomed the energy and limited government principles...

Members of the Republican National Committee will be voting for a new Chairman in January. Choose from the list of names provided who you would prefer to be selected. You may only vote once. Not sure what criteria to keep in mind when making your choice? Click HERE and read What We’re Looking For, a concise 5-point outline of what we require from the RNC Chair in order to ensure success for the critical 2012 election cycle. http://chooseyourchairman.com/ Also...a brand new Facebook page launched for ChooseYourChairman.com website: http://www.facebook.com/pages/ChooseYourChairmancom/154532631258209 Stay on top of the latest news about the RNC chair race...

In the wake of Republican National Committee political director Gentry Collins' spectacular departure from the RNC yesterday, chairman Michael Steele has tapped two veterans of the last two presidential cycles to replace him. Collins left in a very public huff, dropping a letter on the RNC's executive committee that all but declared Steele incompetent to run the committee heading into the 2012 cycle. The RNC reacted by defending Steele's results and pulling in two new people to take over where Collins left off. Jon Seaton, former John McCain campaign director in Ohio and Pennsylvania, and John Peschong, a former official...

As an Iowan who has witnessed Gentry Collins’ rise in national politics, and as a former Political Director of the Republican Party of Iowa who has worked closely with the talented operative only to see him ultimately call for my firing, I read Collins’ letter of resignation, which was leaked to Jonathan Martin of the Politico, with great interest. Collins served as the Political Director of the Republican National Committee (RNC) for the 2010 election cycle. While it is not uncommon for people in Collins’ position to resign following an election, his four-page letter of resignation, which is a scathing...

Top RNC aide quits, blasts Steele By: Jonathan Martin November 16, 2010 01:06 PM EST Republican National Committee political director Gentry Collins resigned from his post Tuesday morning with a stinging indictment of Chairman Michael Steele’s two-year tenure at the committee. In a four-page letter to Steele and the RNC’s executive committee obtained by POLITICO, Collins lays out inside details, previously only whispered, about the disorganization that plagues the party. He asserts that the RNC’s financial shortcomings limited GOP gains this year and reveals that the committee is deeply in debt entering the 2012 presidential election cycle. “In the previous...