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RNC Chairman Michael Steele to speak at Sullivan County GOP Reagan Day Dinner

Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman Michael Steele — the man responsible for bringing Republicans back to national prominence after a tough election cycle last year — will deliver the keynote address at the Sullivan County GOP Reagan Day Dinner.

The event will be held Saturday, May 23, at 6:30 p.m. at the MeadowView Marriott. Limited tickets are available for $50 apiece.

Steele is expected to acknowledge Sullivan County Republicans’ efforts in making Tennessee more of a red state last year amid the election of Democrat Barack Obama to the White House.
Losing GOP presidential candidate John McCain got more than 26,000 votes than Obama in the November presidential election in Sullivan County and won Tennessee.

Republicans also won history-making majorities in both houses of the Tennessee legislature.
Steele is the first African-American to be the RNC chairman. He beat out former Tennessee Republican Party Chairman Chip Saltsman, a former campaign manager of GOP presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee, for the job.

Steele was also the first African-American to serve in a statewide office in Maryland, as lieutenant governor from 2003 to 2007. He chaired the state’s Minority Business Enterprise task force.

Steele ran for a Maryland U.S. Senate seat being vacated by retiring U.S. Sen. Paul Sarbanes, but he lost the 2006 election to Democratic congressman Ben Cardin. Steele then served as chairman of GOPAC, a Republican political action committee, and worked as a partner at a law firm. He also co-founded the Republican Leadership Council in 1993.

For more information about the event, call 323-8700.

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Just as Sarah Palin was the party's token woman candidate, so is Mr. Steele their token black leader.

He has become an embarrassment to the party. He won't stop saying what he thinks.

Everyone must bow to The Rush. Steele and others have found themselves having to apologize to him.

In fact, I think Mr. Steele is a very personable person with a good sense of humor, but I don't think the party will allow him to remain.

Republicans have brought themselves to national prominence by their laughable antics of late.

Their "budget" proposal filled with blank pages, their refusing to accept the stimulus money, even though thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands of their constituents are without income and would have benefited from the money, and their recent proposal to rename the Democratic party the "Democrat Socialist Party" continues to show them for what they really are.

Only time will tell if they can become a viable party again - outside Tennessee and the South - and finally realize they are going to have to become more centrist and stop bowing to the extreme right wingers of the party.

It should be fun.

Oliver Douglas | 5/16/2009 - 5:14 PM - (Suggest Removal )

"The man responsible for bringing Republicans back to national prominence..."

That's wishful thinking...thanks for the laugh :) :) :)

Bobby Boback | 5/16/2009 - 2:29 PM - (Suggest Removal )

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