GOP chief drops out of race for re-election

[Redress]

GOP chief drops out of race for re-election - Yahoo! News

GOP Chairman Michael Steele has dropped his re-election bid after falling behind in balloting for the leadership of the Republican National Committee.

He asked his backers to give their votes to GOP operative Maria Cino.

Kinda saw it coming, but still big news.

 

[cpwill]

wow. well, good deal.

 

[Erod]

RNC's Steele Ends Re-Election Bid

FoxNews.com - Steele Bows Out of Race for RNC Chief

WASHINGTON -- Beleagured GOP Chairman Michael Steele on Friday dropped his bid to stay atop the party for another two years after falling further behind top challenger Reince Priebus in several rounds of voting.

"At this time, I will step aside for others to lead," Steele told RNC members at the Gaylord Resort in National Harbor, Md. "But in so doing, I hope y'all appreciate the legacy we leave. Depsite the noise -- because Lord know we had a lot of noise -- despite the difficulties, we won."

Steele got a standing ovation after his announcement following a tenure marked by controversy and embarrassment despite huge Republican gains in the fall. Steele is now urging supporters to vote for former RNC Deputy Chairwoman Maria Cino.

Not a huge deal. It was certainly time for a change.

 

[Erod]

Re: RNC's Steele Ends Re-Election Bid

Oops, redress beat me to it. Delete at will.

 

[Fiddytree]

Well historically and currently, if I remember correctly, being the chairperson of the party is a rather short affair for most people (2-4 years), sometimes shorter than that (by choice or by pressure).

 

[Redress]

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[X Factor]

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http://www.debatepolitics.com/us-pa...e-steps-down-rnc-chairman.html#post1059218651

 

[Chappy]

“I will step aside because I think the party is ready for something different.” — Michael Steele​

Or is it that the RNC is looking for something a little less different?

 

[Albert Di Salvo]

“I will step aside because I think the party is ready for something different.” — Michael Steele​

Or is it that the RNC is looking for something a little less different?

Let he/she who is without sin cast the first stone. What neighborhood in SF do you live in. Hunter's Point? Tenderloin? Russian Hill? Inner Richmond. The white leftists of SF don't mix racially except with Asians. I live diversity. Few San Franciscans do.

 

[Grim17]

I'm waiting for it... I'll get back to this thread when it arrives.

 

[The Prof]

he oversaw our 63 seat pickup in the house, most since 1938

our addition of 693 news state reps and 21 legislatures, most in modern history

10 gubs, 6 senators...

he was a poor fundraiser, the rnc is in debt

we financed our WAVE campaign mostly with outside money

that's the green the white house tried (for a few days) to ACCUSE us of raising from foreign sources

when axelrod on mtp on october 10 was asked by schieffer what evidence he had that foreign cash was influencing elections, the ax answered, "well, what evidence do you have that it's not, bob"

Axelrod Hits Out at Foreign Money in Elections - Face The Nation - CBS News

LOL!

guilty til proven innocent, from the firm of the vaunted harvard law professor and his associates

just like sarah palin

steele's a good man, he was very gaffe-prone

he has a future, but nowhere near as bright as the party he's still a proud member of

party on, pals

 

[X Factor]

I'm waiting for it... I'll get back to this thread when it arrives.

Check out the thread I started on this (link above). It's there.

 

[The Prof]

yes, the bottom line with steele was his bottom line

ie, he had trouble raising money and left an rnc in debt

the rnc, however, is not alone

DCCC Chairman Steve Israel inherits money mess - John Bresnahan and Alex Isenstadt - POLITICO.com

and today:

But already some of Obama’s top financial backers are warning the White House: Raising money won’t be as easy this time around.

“They are getting organized in Chicago to start a massive two-year campaign, which I believe will be successful, but has extraordinarily large challenges in some of the major states,” said Philadelphia philanthropist Peter Buttenweiser, who hosted one of the first Obama presidential fundraisers in 2007 and is in talks to organize an early one for the re-election.

Obama’s team is running into resistance in at least one key fundraising hub — New York City, where some of Obama’s biggest 2008 backers have bitterly protested last year’s passage of financial reform legislation and what they perceived as an unfair bad-mouthing of bankers during the debate.

In other places, such as Pennyslvania, top donors say Obama has to get in line behind other candidates who need the cash more urgently. And some donors are worried that the party has been slow off the mark in responding to the latest onslaught of GOP fundraising, millions of dollars raised from secret donors by a variety of Republican outside groups, including two associated with former Bush advisers Karl Rove and Ed Gillespie.

Wealthy donors and the Democratic operatives anxious to start up competing outside organizations that can blunt the Rove groups are growing frustrated as they await more specific direction from the Obama team about what form those efforts should take and who should lead them.

In interviews, several said two developments could quickly set things in motion: Creation of an outside group by an obvious Obama insider, or a major donation from a high level Obama supporter, such as Chicago fundraiser Penny Pritzker, to an existing group.

So far, neither of those things has occurred even as the GOP groups ready themselves for the race. “We are stumbling around,” said one Democratic fundraiser and activist.

Barack Obama's 2012 cash challenge - Jeanne Cummings - POLITICO.com

priebus, fyi, is the supremely succesful chair of the WI party, where my side took madison (scott walker) by TEN, we defeated honorable RUSS FEINGOLD, we turned BOTH state houses from blue to red, and we defeated 7 termer ron kind from la crosse/eau claire and the minneapolis-st paul suburbs and old bull DAVID OBEY (author of the stimulus, who ranted how the white house had screwed THAT up) who's been there since 1968, third longest sitting member of pelosi's former place

WI presents its proud progressive tradition, laboratory for liberal ideas, all the way back to fighting bob lafollette, one of the nation's leading teddy roosevelt republicans

and we all know about madison

 

[danarhea]

Michael Steele was the Republicans' answer to Howard Dean. LOL.

 

[Erod]

Michael Steele was the Republicans' answer to Howard Dean. LOL.

Except for the whole success thing.

 

[Whovian]

And now for something completely different... thankfully.