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Steele won the race for the RNC's chairmanship on the fifth ballot by a vote of 91 to 77 against Katon Dawson, chairman of the South Carolina Republican Party, who was hobbled by his previous membership in an all-white country club. At one point, one of Steele's rivals was Ken Blackwell, an African American and a former Ohio secretary of state, who was widely viewed as too dogmatically conservative to head a party desperate for moderation and who eventually threw his support behind Steele. The original slate of candidates included Tennessee GOP chairman Chip Saltsman...
...days following John McCain's loss to Barack Obama, Steele declared on Fox News his interest in the RNC chairmanship - even though the sitting chair had not said he was leaving at the start of the new presidential Administration (and indeed, Mike Duncan was one of the candidates Steele defeated in Friday's vote). In a TIME interview during that period, Steele praised Obama's election as America's first black President. He made clear that as RNC chairman, he would move to temper the party's rigidity and truculence. In particular, one of the models he pointed...
Saltsman, Chip • withdrawal of from race for chairmanship of the Republican National Committee after holiday CD distributed by-featuring the songs "Barack the Magic Negro" and "The Star Spanglish Banner"-was widely seen as unhilarious...
...foreign economic policy. He will likely be working closely with Obama’s nominee for Treasury secretary, Federal Bank of New York President Timothy F. Geithner, who reportedly maintains an excellent relationship with Summers. The position is considered to be a stepping stone to the Federal Reserve chairmanship, which is currently held by Ben S. Bernanke ’75. Richard Zeckhauser, Summers’ close friend and colleague at the Harvard Kennedy School, said that when Bernanke’s term expires in 2010, Obama will likely name Summers to take his place...
Lieberman, Joseph •retention of committee chairmanship of is wussily allowed by Democrats despite lack of apology...