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"The Republican National Committee, the GOP's fundraising and organizational arm, is facing a "cashflow challenge" and can't pay all of its bills on time.
In a memo Tuesday, RNC Chief Administrative Officer Boyd Rutherford wrote, "We will not be able to pay off the vendors this week. We will be slow in paying as we are having a cashflow challenge. Everyone will be slow paid until after the first of the year."The acknowledgment by Rutherford of the RNC's money woes comes at a bad time for the group's chairman, Michael Steele, who already faces several potential challengers for another two-year term, writes the Washington Post's Chris Cillizza. Aside from Steele's verbal gaffes, the cash-flow issue is likely to re-open the debate about his financial stewardship, the Post said."
The other point is that Steele had probably the rockiest start of any party chairman in recent memory, most notably his comment on February 28 that Rush Limbaugh's program can be "incendiary" and "ugly." If we expected Steele's brouhaha with Limbaugh to h
Remember when Republicans were worried about whether new RNC chairman Michael Steele could be an effective fundraiser, or whether his controversial comments would hurt the party's finances?
Month by month, that looks like an increasingly overblown concer
The Bean Walker confirmed that Iowa campaign operative Gentry Collins has been named political director of the Republican National Committee, in an announcement set for later today.
Collins, who most recently served as the Midwest regional campaign manag
First Look at February RNC Numbers . . . Eh, Not Too Bad
An RNC source has just shared their February fundraising numbers. Considering the ominous reports from earlier in the day, they're not that bad.
$5.1 million raised — about same as January. Ja
I checked in with Curt Anderson, a top aide to Republican National Committee Chair Michael Steele, to get his thoughts on this story in The Hill, stating that the RNC is set to release "what are expected to be markedly low fundraising numbers on Friday."
The next RNC chairman will be Norm Coleman, after he loses his recount fight and big donors see Michael Steele’s March numbers.
So what can Steele do in the near-term?
His advisers say he's going to shut up for a while. (They note that the GQ interview took place two weeks ago.) Steele is very confident, and he treats on-the-record interviews as if he were speaking off the reco
Michael Steele's days are numbered,” Rendell said. “Fortunately for us, his days are numbered."
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"He's in trouble because I just think that those who control the Republican Party don't want a big tent," Rendell told reporters during a lunch
RNC Chairman Michael Steele said today that despite telling an interviewer he supports "individual choice" and state-level decisions on abortion, he in fact opposes abortion and supports a Constitutional ban.
Steele said in a statement through an RNC spo
How much of your pro-life stance, for you, is informed not just by your Catholic faith but by the fact that you were adopted?
Oh, a lot. Absolutely. I see the power of life in that—I mean, and the power of choice! The thing to keep in mind about it… Uh,
South Carolina GOP Chairman and former RNC Chairman Katon Dawson writes in to Campaign Spot:
I support Michael Steele. Our Committee elected him knowing that he can lead us during this critical time for our Party. The people behind this anonymous rum
It's not just the TV appearances that have some Republicans worried.
Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele's dust-up with Rush Limbaugh has brought to the fore so-far unspoken concerns about Steele's performance in his early days as head
Many of us looked forward to Michael Steele’s leadership at the RNC after two successive national defeats as a breath of fresh air, a chance to reorganize and have a recognizable, media-savvy figure at the head of the Republican Party. After the first mo
Update: Steele says he’s sorry for causing offense and being inarticulate about Limbaugh because his job is to “bring people together.”
He was just, you know, misunderstood.
No word on how his agreement with Hughley that the GOP convention looked like “
White House press secretary Robert Gibbs, who last month blasted CNBC host Rick Santelli from the podium in the briefing room, challenged reporters on Monday to ask Republicans if they agree with Limbaugh's desire.
"Do they want to see the president's ec
On the same night he was offering the keynote address to the Conservative Political Action Conference, Rush Limbaugh drew criticism from an unlikely source: Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele.
In a little-noticed interview Saturday nig
As noted, “The U.S. attorney's office inadvertently sent the confidential document, a defense sentencing memorandum filed under seal, to The Washington Post after the newspaper requested the prosecution's sentencing memorandum.” Apparently the Post expect
Michael S. Steele, the new chairman of the Republican National Committee, said yesterday that there was nothing improper in a payment of more than $37,000 to his sister's company for work on his 2006 Senate campaign and that he would work with the FBI "to
The Washington Post has quite a hit job on Michael Steele on the front page this morning, with an above-the-fold story alleging he violated a number of campaign-finance rules. Despite the purple language and frothy allegations of the story, my in-house (l
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