Republican National Committee holds special DC session today
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- Republican National Committee holds special DC session today
- Christie Former US Attorney Enters Governor’s Race in New Jersey
- Kaine Readies for Multitasking
- Goodbye to the Grand ld Party
- Bush plans to avoid future party politics
- Small Republican group criticizes Greer
- Josh Burgin named Hillsborough GP party administrator
Republican National Committee holds special DC session today
Los Angeles Times CA
session todayHaving lost both houses of Congress in two consecutive elections and now the big house — the white one down Pennsylvania Avenue — Republican National Committee members gather in a crucial special session this morning on Capitol Hill to ponder the devastation and hear talk about the future. All six candidates for chairman will speak along with those seeking other party offices during the regular RNC meeting at the end of this month. But the race to head the party and begin the rebuilding process was so urgent that this special session was recently added. While the Democrats and President-elect.
Christie Former US Attorney Enters Governor’s Race in New Jersey
New York Times United States
Lonegan one of two other Republicans who have filed papers to vie for the party’s nomination said he thought Mr. Christie was not conservative enough for a majority of primary voters. “This is going to be a battle for the soul of the. Lonegan who has already raised $400000 and has qualified for matching funds.
Kaine Readies for Multitasking
CQPolitics.com DC
They pointed to the governor?s comments before the election that the Democratic Party chairmanship was not ?consistent with being governor. ? ?. ? After news of his selection became public Kaine said that he came around to accept the DNC chairmanship on the condition that he would initially serve as a part-time chairman focusing first on governing his state. ?I have told the president-elect that this is the priority? Kaine.
Goodbye to the Grand ld Party
Drexel University The Triangle nline PA
And it is hard to imagine the Republicans finding anything new to say that is likely to appeal to any significant sector of the population apart from Confederate diehards Evangelicals and Midwesterners who vote Republican in their sleep. These souls will be loyal for a while but political and demographic realities are against them. bama’s election has broken the 40-year stranglehold of the Republican Party on the Deep South which was frankly maintained by exploiting racism. Evangelicals have their own agenda and their long-term commitment to a minority party that cannot deliver the goods is doubtful. The Midwest is rapidly emptying out and one wonders whether the Dakotas may not have to be delisted as states in the not too distant future or somehow repopulated – perhaps with the refugees of our foreign wars?Is there then no value or creed on which the Republicans can rebuild a voting base? Free market capitalism always a misnomer for licensed depredation has brought us the current economic debacle and everyone’s a born-again regulator now. Small-government fiscally prudent conservatism ran aground against successive GP administrations that produced only more bureaucracy a gargantuan Pentagon and runaway deficits capped by a whopping $10 trillion national debt. The famous Reagan revolution was only a reaction against a tired postwar liberalism bankrupted by the culture wars declining American economic hegemony and its own self-betrayals.
Bush plans to avoid future party politics
United Press International
Bush said he would leave the political spotlight to President bama and keep public criticism to a minimum. There will be bike rides on new trails a new office a memoir a new home which Laura picked out in a secluded cul-de-sac (plans still call for weekends at the Crawford ranch) a number of favorite projects both he and Laura plan to pursue and raising money for his presidential library and Freedom Institute where debate will center on “big ideas. ” “This is not going to be a ‘George Bush is a Wonderful Person Center’ or the ‘Center for Republican Party Campaign Tactics’ ” Bush told the Morning News. “It’s going to be a place of debate thought writing lecturing. ” “I remember eight years ago thinking about the sense of anticipation about coming here to Washington and how much our life was going to change” Bush said “I feel that same sense of anticipation with obviously less of a sense of heavy responsibility about to ascend on me. Laura Bush meanwhile cheerfully looked ahead to what she has called the “afterlife. © 2009 United Press International Inc.
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Small Republican group criticizes Greer
Tampabay.com FL
"But this certainty is no reason to ignore decadent expenditures. Republican Party members have a right to know where our money went. "Stockdale said the Florida Republican Reform Caucasus will ask rank-and-file Republicans to join on-line to work for greater transparency and accountability by Party leaders. The organization will post its Web site soon. Recently it was revealed that the RPF provides an America Express Card to senior party officials and $1. 8-million was spent on these cards in 2008.
Josh Burgin named Hillsborough GP party administrator
Creative Loafing Tampa FL
Trey Traviesa Joshua Burgin is now the paid executive of the Hillsborough County Republican Executive Committee. For anyone thinking the Hillsborough Republican Party was moving to the middle forget about it: Burgin is a former aide to former House Speaker Johnnie Byrd and Hillsborough County Commissioner Brian Blair home-schooled and strongly socially conservative. This today from the REC:Hillsborough’s Republican Executive Committee names Party AdministratorTAMPA ? Deborah Cox-Roush Hillsborough County Republican Party Chairman announced today that Joshua Burgin was selected by the Executive Board to take on the position of Party Administrator. Burgin will be introduced to members at the first Republican Executive Committee meeting of the year on January 20th at the Blaise Alfano Convention and Conference Center. After advertising and interviewing a diverse group of qualified candidates members of the Executive Board enthusiastically recommended him for the position. Burgin is well known locally managing three Republican campaign offices during the November elections and impressed volunteers office staff and party leaders with his political know-how and skillful use of technology.
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