New RNC Chairman Wants a ‘Hip-Hop’ Party
The News Review:
- New RNC Chairman Wants a ‘Hip-Hop’ Party
- pen-primary proposal could shake up politics
- Republicans stimulus and finding a line
- In Reversal Mayor Now Woos Political Parties
- Idaho Republican Party Hearing
- GP future: RNC money tech woes
- Jindal’s going prime time
New RNC Chairman Wants a ‘Hip-Hop’ Party
New York Times United States -
Steele isn?t leaving anyone out including he joked ?one-armed midgets. ?Though the newspaper reported that Mr. Steele declined to offer specifics he plans to put together a public relations team to give the Republican Party the equivalent of an extreme makeover.
pen-primary proposal could shake up politics
San Diego Union Tribune CA -
?So you’re having people’s elections determined by a larger number of voters and by a broader spectrum of voters who are more representative of the public? Peace said. Critics say the system has not produced the expected results in Washington state and could have unintended consequences in California where districts are much larger and much more is spent on campaigns. ?It is a misnomer to call this an open primary? said state Republican Party Chairman Ron Nehring who lives in Crest in San Diego County. ?It is not an open primary it is the abolition of primaries. ? The existing primary system Nehring said was another Progressive-era reform that shifted the power of nominating candidates from conventions and caucuses to all party members. The measure which would take effect for the 2012 elections also could foster a regionalization of the major parties Nehring said. ?Under this type of a system it’s possible that you may not see Republicans on the ballot in San Francisco at all and you will have parts of the state where there will be no Democrat on the ballot at all.
Republicans stimulus and finding a line
The Swamp – Tribune’s Washington Bureau DC -
they put it in categories and in minnesota the bulk goes to education and human services infrastructure and other miscellaneous categories but they’ll have us spending more money in any category than anyone would have imagined under these circumstances and that’s unusual. they’re intervening in a very big way. BARNICLE: governor we let you out of here what do you think about the possibility that the republican party fractures eventually between people like you republicans like you governors and some republican mayors who have hands on every day jobs you have to make decisions for people. playgrounds curb cuts taxes up and down and then the other side you have perhaps another republican party of people in the house of represent fs who sit in safe seats two-year terms no opposition all they do is raise money and run successfully. do you think that — it could happen that there’s a fracture there? GV. because it’s funny how defeat leads to pragmatism and the republican party is going to remain a conservative party as it should but we also need to be about growing the party and people who agree with us 90% of the time or 85% of the time aren’t our enemies.
In Reversal Mayor Now Woos Political Parties
New York Times United States -
“He has so much disdain for political parties and now all of a sudden he needs us” said Phil Ragusa the chairman of the Queens. )Party leaders may be posturing or holding out for a big donation from the billionaire mayor a tactic he has used to curry favor in the past.
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Idaho Republican Party Hearing
Ballot Access CA -
District Court Judge B. Lynn Winmill a Clinton appointee heard oral argument in Idaho Republican Party v Ysursa. This is the case in which the party is trying to obtain a closed primary for itself. Idaho is a state with no registration by party. The hearing lasted just over an hour.
GP future: RNC money tech woes
MSNBC -
She even explains that she thinks many in the party were and are in denial that the biggest problem was not having enough money not their inability to mobilize voters in the way the bama campaign did. More: ?The Republican party isn’t exactly Internet savvy. This has been a source of personal frustration for me for a very long time. Unless the GP evolves as the party that can successfully utilize the Web we’ll continue to lose influence. I think nothing confirms this fact to be more true than this recent election.
Jindal’s going prime time
Concordia Sentinel LA -
Bobby Jindal being tapped to offer the Republican Party response to the president’s speech to a joint session of the Congress next week people who have observed Jindal for some time now know he’s more than capable of delivering a first-rate performance when it matters. And it will matter on Fat Tuesday when Jindal talks to millions of viewers via television and the Internet. It will matter because Jindal’s delivery of the GP rebuttal will mark the first time the young governor will command a national audience. Speaking live to millions of people though is a bit different than talking to Mr.
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