micheal steel to head RNC

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RNC Chair Steele Faces Questions Over Campaign Spending

<span style="font-family: 'Courier New'">Michael S. Steele, the newly elected chairman of the Republican National Committee, arranged for his 2006 Senate campaign to pay a defunct company run by his sister for services that were never performed, his finance chairman from that campaign has told federal prosecutors.

Federal agents in recent days contacted Steele's sister, a spokesman for Steele said yesterday.</span>

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Steele Confuses Stephanopoulos:
<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/08/steele-confuses-stephanop_n_164991.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'">Claims Government Jobs &quot;Aren't Jobs,&quot; Private Sector Jobs Never Go Away</span>
<span style="font-style: italic">February 8, 2009 11:00 AM</span></a>

<span style="font-family: 'Courier New'">There is certainly a political debate to be waged over whether or not government spending can effectively create jobs. But in his interview on This Week with George Stephanopoulos on Sunday, Michael Steele seemed to suggest, as he did back in January, that government jobs are not, in fact, really jobs.

Rather, Steele said, government jobs are &quot;just work.&quot; (Is work not a job?) The newly-minted RNC Chairman added that when it comes to the private sector, job loss is never permanent.

&quot;They come back though George,&quot; said Steele. &quot;That's the point. They've gone away before and they come back.&quot;

Stephanopolous did his best to sift through the logic, pointing out that millions of private sector jobs have been lost in just this past year.

Earlier in the interview, Steele acknowledged that the government can create &quot;work&quot; in the short-term. But the notion that this type of spending could spur economic growth -- whether in advancing environmentally friendly industries or through the filter down of more infrastructure -- was dismissed out of hand by Steele. </span>

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Michael Steel - Off the hook!

I had to bring this back, because this has got to be one of the 'funniest' things I have read in a while, i bet the GOP full of regrets right now, dem probably plotting how to get him out.

<span style="font-size: 14pt"><span style="font-weight: bold">RNC chair plans 'off the hook' campaign, tells critics to ‘stuff it’</span></span>

(CNN) — Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele says his party is going to launch an &quot;off the hook&quot; public relations campaign that will <span style="font-weight: bold">update the GOP’s image by translating it to &quot;urban-suburban hip-hop settings.&quot;</span>

The new GOP leader told the Washington Times that the party’s defeat in states such as North Carolina and Virginia made it clear they needed a new approach.

<span style="font-weight: bold">“We need messengers to really capture that region — young, Hispanic, black, a cross section…” he said in an interview published Thursday. “We want to convey that the modern-day GOP looks like the conservative party that stands on principles. But we want to apply them to urban-surburban hip-hop settings.”

He added, jokingly, that “we need to uptick our image with everyone, including one-armed midgets.”</span>

Steele described the new multi-platform PR offensive as “avant-garde, technically. It will come to [the] table with things that will surprise everyone — off the hook.” Asked whether that meant cutting-edge tactics, Steele demurred. “I don't do 'cutting-edge,’” he said. “That's what Democrats are doing. We're going beyond cutting-edge.”

Steele, who began a massive personnel overhaul at the RNC shortly after his election, said he has started meeting weekly with congressional Republicans. He said he’ll be gathering input from House and Senate leaders, not giving instructions — but he criticized national Republican leadership’s focus on party unity as a top priority, saying the failure to devote itself instead to developing fresh faces had cost the GOP.

“We missed the mark in the past, which is why we are in the crapper now,” he said. “We had the White House, the Senate and the House and were not building a farm team over the last years. We could have been ahead of Democrats and their 50-state strategy.”


<span style="font-weight: bold">Steele dismissed the assessments of some Republicans that he needs a deputy to handle areas like logistics, fundraising and candidate recruitment. “I can run this organization just fine,” he said. “There will be no deputy chairman, period. …People who said I can't make the trains run on time never gave a reason. I say to them, 'Stuff it.'</span>

“I am not afraid of being held accountable for my leadership,” he said. “The idea I am somehow going to handicap myself before I begin is nuts. I am not going to buy into this mind-set among a few people who probably have never run anything but their mouths.”

Steele defeated a crowded field last month, including sitting RNC chairman Mike Duncan, to claim the party’s top spot.

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Re: Michael Steel - Off the hook!

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: seemiyah</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I had to bring this back, because this has got to be one of the 'funniest' things I have read in a while, i bet the GOP full of regrets right now, dem probably plotting how to get him out.

<span style="font-size: 14pt"><span style="font-weight: bold">RNC chair plans 'off the hook' campaign, tells critics to ‘stuff it’</span></span>

(CNN) — Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele says his party is going to launch an &quot;off the hook&quot; public relations campaign that will <span style="font-weight: bold">update the GOP’s image by translating it to &quot;urban-suburban hip-hop settings.&quot;</span>

The new GOP leader told the Washington Times that the party’s defeat in states such as North Carolina and Virginia made it clear they needed a new approach.

<span style="font-weight: bold">“We need messengers to really capture that region — young, Hispanic, black, a cross section…” he said in an interview published Thursday. “We want to convey that the modern-day GOP looks like the conservative party that stands on principles. But we want to apply them to urban-surburban hip-hop settings.”

He added, jokingly, that “we need to uptick our image with everyone, including one-armed midgets.”</span>

Steele described the new multi-platform PR offensive as “avant-garde, technically. It will come to [the] table with things that will surprise everyone — off the hook.” Asked whether that meant cutting-edge tactics, Steele demurred. “I don't do 'cutting-edge,’” he said. “That's what Democrats are doing. We're going beyond cutting-edge.”

Steele, who began a massive personnel overhaul at the RNC shortly after his election, said he has started meeting weekly with congressional Republicans. He said he’ll be gathering input from House and Senate leaders, not giving instructions — but he criticized national Republican leadership’s focus on party unity as a top priority, saying the failure to devote itself instead to developing fresh faces had cost the GOP.

“We missed the mark in the past, which is why we are in the crapper now,” he said. “We had the White House, the Senate and the House and were not building a farm team over the last years. We could have been ahead of Democrats and their 50-state strategy.”


<span style="font-weight: bold">Steele dismissed the assessments of some Republicans that he needs a deputy to handle areas like logistics, fundraising and candidate recruitment. “I can run this organization just fine,” he said. “There will be no deputy chairman, period. …People who said I can't make the trains run on time never gave a reason. I say to them, 'Stuff it.'</span>

“I am not afraid of being held accountable for my leadership,” he said. “The idea I am somehow going to handicap myself before I begin is nuts. I am not going to buy into this mind-set among a few people who probably have never run anything but their mouths.”

Steele defeated a crowded field last month, including sitting RNC chairman Mike Duncan, to claim the party’s top spot.

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Dis fayva an article in The Onion. But it isn't.

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Re: Michael Steel - Off the hook!

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: B_P</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Dis fayva an article in The Onion. But it isn't. </div></div>

LOL...his whole selection to the Post sounds like something you would here on the Onion Radio News Podcast.

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