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GOP's 'purity test:' Steele pondering

02 Dec 2009 10:19:49 PST

Written by Mark Silva
Steele was quick to add that "I don't think that that's the intent" of the resolution's authors, even though that is how the effort is widely perceived. He described the resolution, which surfaced last week, as "just a discussion among the members" of the Republican National Committee "t...

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DNC Hails Decision to Keep in Place Consent Decree Barring Republicans From Voter Intimidation

02 Dec 2009 07:52:17 PST

DNC Chairman Tim Kaine and DNC Vice Chair for Voter Registration and Participation Donna Brazile issued the following statement on yesterday’s ruling by the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey keeping in place a consent decree barring the Republican National C...

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GOP Purity Test Designed To 'Stick It' To Steele: Ally

01 Dec 2009 15:28:32 PST

Written by The Huffington Post News Editors
An ally of Republican National Committee chair Michael Steele says that a "purity test" suggested for the party platform is just a publicity stunt orchestrated by his political opponents. On Tuesday, Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) became the latest Republican leader to come out against the...

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Supporters of Moderate Republican in N.Y.-23 Special Election Weigh Where to Place Their Loyalties After Candidate Quits

02 Nov 2009 09:21:08 PST

Written by Michael Beckel
Scozzafava had also received endorsements from the National Rifle Association and Republicans including former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, former Republican Study Committee Chairman Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-Texas), Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele a...

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Sarah Palin, Republican Bigwigs Support Doug Hoffman Over Dierdre Scozzafava In Upstate Congressional Battle

28 Oct 2009 19:11:22 PDT

Written by The Huffington Post News Editors
The divided high-profile Republicans reflect a competition for the allegiance of party activists, said John Pitney, a politics professor at Claremont McKenna College in California and a former staffer for the House Republican Research Committee and the Republican National Commit...

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Capital Eye Opener: Wednesday, October 28

27 Oct 2009 21:40:59 PDT

Written by Lindsay Renick Mayer
LIZ CHENEY APPEALS TO DONORS TO "KEEP AMERICA SAFE:" Florida real estate guru Mel Sembler is throwing his financial weight behind former Vice President Dick Cheney's daughter's new organization, Keep America Safe, according to Newsweek. Sembler has traditionally dug deep into his po...

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Republican National Committee news and blogs - December 02, 2009

02 Dec 2009 00:00:01 PDT

Below is today's roundup of news and blogs that haven't yet hit top story status by our community. Visit Republican National Committee news and blogs for even more news and blogs converage.

• Bush Officials, RNC Praise Obama's Afghan Knowledge And Surge Strategy -- by The Huffington Post News Team from Huffpolitics on The Huffington Post
• Judge Rejects RNC Bid To End Minority Voter Protections -- by The Huffington Post News Editors from The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
• GOP: '2012 yet? -- Visualize no liberals' -- by Mark Silva from The Swamp
• DNC Raises $11.5 Million In October, Outpacing RNC -- by The Huffington Post News Team from Huffpolitics on The Huffington Post
• GM's losses Obama's failure: RNC says -- by Mark Silva from The Swamp
• Gingrich: Contract with America round 2 -- by Mark Silva from The Swamp
• Prominent South Carolina Conservative Offers Support For Graham -- by The Huffington Post News Team from Politics on HuffingtonPost.com
• Susan J. Demas: How Sarah Palin and Tea Partiers Are Blowing Up the GOP -- by Susan J. Demas from Politics on HuffingtonPost.com
• Joe Peyronnin: What Change? -- by Joe Peyronnin from The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed
• Earl Ofari Hutchinson: Make No Mistake Tuesday's GOP Surge Was about Obama -- by Earl Ofari Hutchinson from The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed

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Podcast: Curt Schilling

10 Sep 2009 11:47:00 PDT

0:05:05] ... As he Republicans and therefore how do you get money. From the Republican National Committee would they not the Scott Brown ran let's say he was the nominee of the Republican Party. You would be taking money ... 0:05:22] ... The many things consider my AM understanding that the RNC picks an...

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Howard Gleckman: Does the GOP Really Oppose Controlling Medicare Spending?

27 Aug 2009 15:53:29 PDT

Written by Howard Gleckman
In a remarkable document, Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele has declared the GOP firmly against efforts to control Medicare spending. In a carefully parsed... In a remarkable document, Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele has declared the GOP fir...

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RNC chair Steele works to scare seniors about healthcare

24 Aug 2009 09:35:00 PDT

Written by Alex Koppelman
In Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele's defense, at least his Monday op-ed for the Washington Post didn't explicitly mention the fictitious "death panels." Unfortunately, that's about the only thing that can be said in defense of the article -- or of the Post's deci...

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WWE Chief Executive Linda McMahon Brings Strong Democratic Ties to Her Attempt to Smackdown Chris Dodd

10 Aug 2009 06:05:56 PDT

Written by Michael Beckel
But McMahon's history is hardly that of a hardcore Republican. The Republican Party of Connecticut ranks as the couple's third highest beneficiary. The party has received $13,000 in contributions from the McMahons since 1992, of all which have been under Linda's name.

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Glenn McCall: Sanford Should Resign

25 Jun 2009 13:42:40 PDT

Written by The Huffington Post News Editors
Glenn McCall, one of two national representatives to the Republican National Committee and a county party chairman, said Thursday that party members want Sanford out. He said Sanford should practice the philosophy he's preached of holding GOP leaders accountable.

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Podcast: The Tea Party

15 Apr 2009 13:55:00 PDT

0:18:25] ... to present Obama's policies aren't particularly. Friendly to the GOP. When the Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele asked to speak to a Chicago. Tea party his request was politely refused by the organizers. Quote we prefer ...

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Opinion: Steele calls abortion "individual choice"

11 Mar 2009 17:30:00 PDT

Written by Alex Koppelman
Asked, during an interview with GQ, whether "women have the right to choose abortion," Steele responded, "Yeah. I mean, again, I think that’s an individual choice." That, right there, would seem to put him on the pro-choice side of the debate, at the opposite end of the spectrum from where h...

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Podcast: Here and Now for Tuesday, March 3, 2009

03 Mar 2009 10:35:45 PST

0:14:37] ... You are head of the RNC. Who were not hit the Republican Party. Tens of millions of conservatives and Republicans have nothing to do with the RNC and right now they want nothing to do with -- and when you call them. Asking them for money they hang up ...

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Podcast: Here and Now for Thursday, January 29, 2009

29 Jan 2009 12:03:56 PST

0:00:20] ... also to Republican Party poised to -- its new leader at the Republican National Committee meeting tomorrow. And house Republicans are also huddling this weekend in Hot Springs Virginia to plot the party's future so -- of ...

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Opinion: Renee Feltz: Grand Old Social Networking Party

26 Jan 2009 12:17:18 PST

Written by Renee Feltz
Donatelli and Connell's consulting firms received most of the limited funds McCain's campaign allocated for Web services. Hewitt wants to redirect the funds away from consultants to grassroots Web outreach. On his radio show he has called for the Republican National Committee to "esta...

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More GOP Senate quitters: Real despair or real opportunities?

13 Jan 2009 02:05:18 PST

Written by Andrew Malcolm
As one result, Bush leaves his Republican Party bereft of national leadership right now, another reason that heightens the importance of the election of a new Republican National Committee chair at month's end in Washington. Two of the six candidates are African Americans.

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Saltz In The Wounds

29 Dec 2008 20:33:28 PST

THE DEFENDANT: Chip Saltsman, the unbelievably-named Republican party chair from Tennessee. In the running to become the next chair of the Republican National Committee, he unloaded his own giant pile of toxic sludge by sending out a CD full of "Republican" "musical" "comedy" "hits" t...

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Opinion: From MICHAEL STEELE - A New Partnership With State And Local Parties

29 Dec 2008 19:05:00 PST

Written by noreply@blogger.com (Tony GOPrano)
· Showcase Republican Governors and Legislators who have consistently served as an idea factory for conservative policy. Innovative policies like welfare reform and tax reform came from Republican governors during Bill Clinton’s Presidency. We need to promote more aggressively the...

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Opinion: A Briar Patch in Illinois

15 Dec 2008 22:00:00 PST

Suddenly, conservative columnists, bloggers and the Republican National Committee insisted that all other news was secondary to the burning issue of what Obama and his staff knew about any of this -- and never mind that Blagojevich used one of his favorite expletives to trash Obama for...

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Podcast: RNC enlists Clinton to attack Obama

02 Nov 2008 12:41:49 PST

Written by CNN Ticker Producer Alexander Mooney
The RNC is using Hillary Clinton in a new robocall. NEW YORK (CNN) – The Republican National Committee is using Hillary Clinton’s past criticism of Barack Obama to plant seeds of doubt in the minds of undecided voters in the final hours of the presidential campaign. The RNC will begin an auto...

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Opinion: Sarah Palin's Wardrobe Front-Page News at NY Times

23 Oct 2008 12:55:35 PDT

Written by Clay Waters
When Politico revealed the Republican National Committee spent $150,000 outfitting Sarah Palin and her family after she was picked as John McCain's running mate, one would assume it would be worthy of a brief, snarky story buried on the New York Times's "Caucus" page, filled mostly...

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Podcast: RNC to add to FEC complaint on Obama's fundraising

22 Oct 2008 13:59:32 PDT

Written by CNN Associate Producer Martina Stewart
The Obama campaign recently announced that it has three million individual donors. (CNN) – The Republican National Committee announced Wednesday that it plans to submit an addendum to its recent complaint filed with the Federal Election Commission about the fundraising of Sen. Barack...

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Opinion: M.S. Bellows, Jr.: Republicans' Top Lawyer: G.O.P. Never Breaks Even "Spirit" of Election Laws

21 Sep 2008 07:40:07 PDT

Written by M.S. Bellows, Jr.
25. The instances of such voter-suppression tactics are many, but a few examples should suffice. In 1981, Defendant RNC, working with a state party and under the guise of a "Ballot Security Task Force," created lists of voters in predominantly African-American precincts and sent them le...

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Opinion: Republican Tax Scares

25 Jul 2008 19:22:23 PDT

Written by RonChusid
The post refers to this post at factcheck.org which debunks McCain’s charges on taxes on small business. This isn’t the only time that factcheck.org has debunked false claims on Obama’s tax plans recently. They debunked a claim that Obama “voted to raise income taxes on individuals who earn...

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