Katon Dawson

What’s there to say, really, about Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele’s argument that Barack Obama won the presidency “because the press fell in love with the black man running for the office”? That Steele should stop guest-hosting Bill Bennett’s show, sure. That Steele forgets how two controversies kneecapped Chip “Magic Negro” Saltsman and Katon [...]

Matt Strawn, the newly-elected chairman of the Iowa Republicans, gives the most scripted of the nominating speeches thus far, in support of current Republican National Committee Chairman Mike Duncan. “I’ve been all around Iowa, and let me tell ya, Iowa Republicans are fired up ready to fight.”
From a second nominating speech: “He knows this [...]

My friend J.P. Freire digs up a 2003 speech by Katon Dawson, the Republican National Committee chairman candidate who has apologized for once belonging to a whites-only country club, in which Dawson traces his Republicanism back to…
…wait for it…
… racial integration.
I, in the 1960s was a product of school segregation, where [...]

A Republican National Committee debate reveals how GOP party leaders aren’t planning on ideological changes.