Former Minnesota Sen. Norm Coleman, who’s reportedly been pondering a challenge to Michael Steele as chair of the Republican National Committee, has canceled plans to attend this week’s four-day RNC confab in Kansas City. Coleman was scheduled to be at the event, but changed plans without much explanation.
In more strange news from the RNC’s Michael Steele, Politico reports that it has obtained an email indicating that the RNC has been trying to set up meetings between the chairman and foreign ambassadors to the United States:
Coming off months of poor fundraising, the Republican National Committee generated buzz last week by announcing a big August fundraiser in California that would feature Chairman Michael Steele and conservative blogger, Andrew Breitbart. Now it’s not clear whether Breitbart will be there after all, and today Jonathan Martin More…
The traditional fundraising bulwark for the GOP, the Republican National Committee is having a bad year, to say the least. Chairman Michael Steele has managed to get himself noticed for almost everything except his fundraising prowess, from his questioning of the U.S. commitment in Afghanistan to his promising an “off More…
House Minority Leader Rep. John Boehner quietly launched yet another fundraising committee last week to aid Republican efforts to take back the House this November. It’s modestly titled “Boehner for Speaker,” and it comes complete with brochures meant to introduce him a a regular guy to potential donors More…
Orrin Hatch announces he will vote against Elena Kagan’s confirmation.
Michael Steele says he doesn’t think we should be fighting in Afghanistan.
Republicans weren’t convinced by Obama’s speech to support immigration reform.
The House approved another $37 billion for Iraq and Afghanistan More…
After the director of the Republican National Committee’s Young Eagles program was fired last week following the bondage club spending scandal, some suggested that the RNC was moving on. Apparently not.
The committee’s chief of staff, Ken McKay, resigned last night and his departure apparently prompted senior adviser More…
A roundup of the top immigration stories of the week:
- The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that defendants in criminal cases are entitled to immigration advice, especially how their plea could affect their immigration status.
- After More…
The “suggested amount” portion of the donation form is crossed out. There isn’t a box to check for no donation, so the would-be donor has simply drawn and filled in a new bubble and scrawled “NO.”
Fourteen months after being tossed aside for Michael Steele, former RNC Chairman Mike Duncan is at the helm of American Crossroads, a group aiming to raise $52 million “from corporations and wealthy conservatives” to win the 2010 elections.
The new American Crossroads organization will be run by former RNC
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