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Ruh-Roh: Steele Faces Cronyism Charge in RNC Hiring
Forget every other criticism of Michael Steele's chairmanship of the Republican National Committee. Ralph Z. Hallow digs up the dynamite:
When Michael S. Steele took over as chairman of the Republican National Committee earlier this year, he brought along longtime personal assistant Belinda Cook and gave her a salary nearly three times what her predecessor made.
Mrs. Cook's son, Lee, also landed an RNC job.
Mr. Steele hired another family friend, Angela Sailor, to be the party's outreach director at a salary of $180,000, more than double her predecessor's compensation, though new responsibilities have been added to the job, according to a high-ranking RNC official and Federal Election Commission (FEC) filings.
This is potentially devastating. There are too many out-of-work Republican operatives for the RNC chief to be awarding six-figure salaries under circumstances that invite accusations of favoritism. I've been a Michael Steele fan for years, but he must keep in mind those 77 votes for Katon Dawson on the sixth ballot.
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Aaron| 5.19.09 @ 11:51AM
I wouldn't say I'm a Steele fan, I like the guy though. He hasn't been able to bring a consistent message to the front yet and this is going to blow up in his face. I think I just heard the collective media say "Attack, attack, ATTACK!"
Sifty| 5.19.09 @ 1:12PM
Steele has got to go. This will be the final straw.
I wanted him to succeed and was happy when he was chosen.
When he is not speaking and acting like he is embarrassed by the party that hired him, he consistently comes across as a microphone addicted attention-whore.
We can't allow him to become our Nancy Pelosi. Let the Democrats collect albatross necklaces. Let's get rid of all ours quick.
Sifty| 5.19.09 @ 1:14PM
Furthermore:
I predict that, if he is fired, eh will pull a Specter in time for the next Presidential election.
DaveP.| 5.19.09 @ 2:09PM
I wanted him to succeed too, but the man has been an embarassment since he entered the office. I'm sure that someone must have told him that the job actually required hard work organizing and fundraising, but he seems to have heard that the only tasks he needs to focus on are ego-stroke interviews where he badmouths his own party in order to make bigoted liberal talk-show hosts like him more.
Mike, if you have any desire to help your party at all... GO HOME.
jr| 5.19.09 @ 4:37PM
I too wanted him to succeed - based only the small amount I heard from him plus he was a loner in Liberal Maryland. But since he has become a star, he is bitten. Whoever, in the Republican party, who chooses these people, as in McCain, should be canned. It appears that the implications of his attempt to spread money around without adult supervision was not implications - facts.
Spicy Joker| 5.19.09 @ 8:59PM
It's time for Michael STEAL to go. The GOP needs to stop getting behind RINOs with tin ears.
Eric Dondero| 5.19.09 @ 9:51PM
If the conservatives manage to kick libertarian/centrist Steele out, it will be an utter disaster for relations between the Party's libertarian wing and conservs. We libertarian Republicans will not be at all happy.
You conservs need to chill, SERIOUSLY!
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