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Sarah Palin Passes on RNC Chairmanship Run
As I said before – from ABC News.
Sarah Palin isn’t running…for one job at least. She doesn’t appear to be a candidate to Chair the Republican National Committee.
The activist group Tea Party Nation, planned on sending a letter to Palin pleading for her to run.
“We need you as Chairman of the RNC. You have shown in the past no hesitation to take on the establishment,” reads a draft of the letter posted on the Tea Party Nation web-site. “You did it in Alaska. If we end up with establishment control of the GOP and their support for an establishment candidate in 2012, Obama and the socialists will have won.”
But in an exclusive written statement to ABC News, Palin says:
“I respect the desire to have someone in charge of the RNC who understands the wishes of the conservative grassroots and understands that power resides with the people and not the vested interests in DC. However, the primary role of the RNC chair seems be that of fundraiser-in-chief, and there are others who would probably be much more comfortable asking people for money than I would be, and they would definitely enjoy it more.”
A thanks but NO thanks. End of story.
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RNC Can’t Pay Its Bills — Cites ‘Cash Flow’ Problem
RNC Can’t Pay Its Bills — Cites ‘Cash Flow’ Problem
“The Republican National Committee, the GOP’s fundraising and organizational arm, is facing a “cashflow challenge” and can’t pay all of its bills on time. In a memo Tuesday, RNC Chief Administrative Officer Boyd Rutherford wrote, “We will not be able to pay off the vendors this week. We will be slow in paying as we are having a cashflow challenge. Everyone will be slow paid until after the first of the year.”The acknowledgment by Rutherford of the RNC’s money woes comes at a bad time for the group’s chairman, Michael Steele, who already faces several potential challengers for another two-year term, writes the Washington Post’s Chris Cillizza. Aside from Steele’s verbal gaffes, the cash-flow issue is likely to re-open the debate about his financial stewardship, the Post said.”
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Live Video: RNC Chairman Candidate Forum – Collins, Healy, Anuzis, Wagner
The participants are Gentry Collins, Chris Healy, Saul Anuzis, and Ann Wagner. Maria Cino was a no-show, although she anounced the endorsement of Dick Cheney this morning.
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RNC Political Director Gentry Collins Resigns and Seals Michael Steele’s Fate?
Former Republican National committee (RNC) political director Gentry Collins and RNC Chairman Michael Steele
Probably so.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 two non-presidential cycles, the RNC carried over $4.8 million and $3.1 million respectively in cash reserve balances into the presidential cycles,” Collins writes, underlining his words for emphasis. “In stark contrast, we enter the 2012 presidential cycle with 100% of the RNC’s $15 million in lines of credit tapped out, and unpaid bills likely to add millions to that debt.”
Here is a copy of the letter embedded below:
Gentry Collins LetterRNC Chairman Michael Steele has yet to announce plans for re-election. But, with today’s revelation, I doubt he will run since it is obvious that he would not be able to win.
Going into the 2012 Presidential cycle, the Republican National Committee Chairman needs to be a very productive fundraiser as well as an executive leader. This is why California’s Carly Fiorina has been mentioned as a possible successor to Steele.
I don’t think she wants the position though.
I can see Carly more on Fox Business Network and writing a column for the Wall Street Journal.
Stay tuned…..
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Day By Day April 6, 2010 – Stimulus Funds
The shoe has dropped at the Republican National Committee – as it should have.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.
But, Michael Steele is responsible for this mess and may ultimately pay the price with his resignation.
This reminds us to be very skeptical of politicians and political parties – you know something about absolute power corrupting absolutely.
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Republican National Committee Pulls Nancy Pelosi – Pussy Galore Video Yet Again
The Republican National Committee Video on Nancy PelosiThe Republican National Committee has asserted a copyright claim to remove their Nancy Pelosi – Pussy Galore video from You Tube. As you can see above it has resurfaced for a time at another site.
Flap does not think the video is offensive and the RNC did NOT make a mistake so why the big deal now?
Do these GUTLESS WONDERS just like shooting themselves in the foot?
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Republican National Committee Pulls Nancy Pelosi – Pussy Galore VideoVideo: The Obligatory Nancy Pelosi = Pussy Galore Post
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Republican National Committee Pulls Nancy Pelosi – Pussy Galore Video
Republican National Committee Video on Speaker Nancy PelosiThe video, “Pelosi Galore,” was attacked from the left as sexist, and some Republicans also found it in poor taste.
RNC spokesman Trevor Francis confirned the committee had removed the video but declined to explain why.
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Video: The Obligatory Nancy Pelosi = Pussy Galore Post
Republican National Committee video on Democrat House Speaker Nancy PelosiThe Politico has tried to make a big deal of the “below the belt” shot at Nancy Pelosi.
She’s the 69-year-old speaker of the House of Representatives, second in the line of succession and the most powerful woman in U.S. history.
But when you see Nancy Pelosi, the Republican National Committee wants you to think “Pussy Galore.â€
At least that’s the takeaway from a video released by the committee this week – a video that puts Pelosi side-by-side with the aforementioned villainess from the 1964 James Bond film “Goldfinger.â€
The RNC video, which begins with the speaker’s head in the iconic spy-series gun sight, implies that Pelosi has used her feminine wiles to dodge the truth about whether or not she was briefed by the CIA on the use of waterboarding in 2002. While the P-word is never mentioned directly, in one section the speaker appears in a split screen
alongside the Bond nemesis – and the video’s tagline is “Democrats Galore.â€Flap says BFD.
You think this is sexist?
Why?
Flap’s friend Darleen Click has the answer.
First off, we can probably question why little Ms. Andie’s editorial is listed in the “news†section of Politico. Secondly, we can then wonder where Ms. Andie was when Her Lord and Savior Obama was (using her metric of OUTRAGE over teh sexism) much less subtle in calling Sarah Palin a pig and flipping the bird to Hillary Clinton.
Two other women friends of Flap “GET IT.”
Well, booh-frickin’-whoo. Where was Politico when the Dems were calling Condoleezza Rice the “house negro“?
No, I don’t think the idea of the video below was to call the Speaker of the House a “pussy,†though the final tagline does allude to the Pussy Galore character, and does indeed imply that Nancy Pelosi is on the wrong side here, having taken on the intelligence community in the aggressive fashion that she did. Ultimately, the video’s implication is the opposite of what we usually mean to communicate with the word “pussy……”
What are they smoking? The President of the United States once made degrading remarks about Hilary Clinton’s menstrual cycles as part of his vicious primary battle against her; if the RNC is comparing Nancy to a femme fatale, that’s pretty small potatoes.
Alas, both AllahPundit and William Jacobson think the RNC shouldn’t have made the ad, since they should have known that it might be “distorted†by the opposite side. What are we permitted to say that cannot be distorted by the opposite side?
Again, BFD.
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Michael Steele: Raising GOP Campaign Cash
Republican National Chairman Michael Steele responds to a question during a news conference before the Vanderburgh County Right to Life fundraising dinner in Evansville, Indiana, April 16, 2009
Say what you will about RNC Chairman Michael Steele but he is raising the campaign cash for the Republican Party.Moe Lane has run the numbers and finds that yet again, the RNC under Michael Steele has outraised the DNC under Tim Kaine, $5.76 million to $4.52 million; the RNC’s cash on hand margin is $24.38 million to $9.09 million; and the DNC owes $5.42 million in debt while the RNC has none.
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Michael Steele – Abortion, Gay Marriage – The GQ Interview
Republican National Chairman Michael Steele
The Michael Steele GQ interview is here.Some conservatives may NOT like it but Flap understands what Steele is doing – It is called OUTREACH.
On the other hand, it is Steele’s inconsistencies on the abortion question and OTHERS that have some wondering what utility Steele brings to the national GOP and Republican National Committee.
I have seen the man speak with conviction and passion at conservative events and leave everyone mightily impressed, but now we have to wonder whether Steele just tailored the message for the audience, as he appears to have done with Hughley and GQ. I don’t necessarily buy that, as he has easier ways to get media air time than being in the Republican Party, but it’s hard not to ask the question these days.
One thing is certain: he’s a lot less media savvy than most of us thought. And since he doesn’t seem to have much skill in organization, we have to ask ourselves why we should support his continued tenure as RNC chair.
Looks like to Flap that Michael Steele is a good pitchman on television and sells himself well, but that is all. California had that problem with Arnold Schwarzenegger – much to its later detriment.
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