TWI’s David Weigel appeared on MSNBC’s Countdown with Keith Olbermann last night, discussing the strange story of an RNC-funded outing at a Los Angeles strip club and its implications for Michael Steele’s chairmanship and the relationship between the Republican Party and the Tea Party movement. Video after the jump:
Politico has the email circulated inside the RNC announcing — but not naming — the departure of the staffer who let a $1900 expense for a night club party slip through the cracks. And below the jump is the email sent to the media last night by RNC More…
Jonathan Martin writes that the RNC Voyeur scandal isn’t likely to “change the political facts of life” keeping Steele in his job until he’s up for re-election in January 2011. I’m inclined to agree. If anyone would take a jab at Steele over this, it would be Indiana RNC More…
I waited a little while to link to Jonathan Strong’s story about — well, it’s about two things. Half of the story concerns rumors about Michael Steele’s lavish wishlist, and half concerns big expenses that appear on the RNC’s FEC reports, the most eye-popping one being nearly $2,000 at More…
Today, Immigration Impact, the blog of the Immigration Policy Center, reported on a shift in tactics in the immigration debate: A growing number of Republican lawmakers say the party needs to adjust its positions on Comprehensive Immigration Reform (CIR) in order to boost Latino support:
More Republicans have acknowledged
Republicans dismissing as inaccurate the Congressional Budget Office’s cost analysis of the Democrats’ health care reform bills seem to have forgotten history.
In 2004 — amid controversy over the Bush administration’s efforts to bury unflattering cost estimates of the Republican’s More…
Well, this isn’t going to soothe the GOP’s internal critics of Michael Steele, who worry that his celebrity distracts him from the party’s message. He stars in a new 60-second ad — he’s onscreen for 30 second of it, and narrates the rest — telling viewers to visit a new More…
Reid Wilson, a must-read for everything related to the Republican National Committee, has the latest on Chairman Michael Steele’s kindness to the island territories that provided his January 2009 margin of victory for the job.
State and local development dir. Shannon Reeves and new media dir. George Alafoginis, 2
Jeanne Cummings digs through the RNC’s finance reports and comes out with details that don’t reflect well on Chairman Michael Steele’s spending habits. For example:
RNC meal costs are among the categories that saw the biggest increases under Steele’s leadership. In Beverly Hills, Calif., the RNC spent $10,600 on
YouTube user Melioped — easily spotted at CPAC, as she a donned revolutionary war-era dress for much of Saturday — filmed RNC Chairman Michael Steele’s visit to the Campaign for Liberty booth when Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) was making the rounds. The result: this still shot, which speaks to More…
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