Tag: republican national committee

While the nation celebrated a milestone in civil rights history, the right has decided to turn that celebration into a false call of discrimination while using the only African American currently serving in the Senate.

Oh the problems that plague the Republicans when it comes to acceptance. While they just recently admitted that their losses in November were in no small part due to the party appearing intolerant to minorities and gays, they have done little to repair that problem. Now we have one high level Republican official in Florida […]

Forget the good part of the 90’s. It appears the Republicans are wanting to relive the bad part of them with bogus investigations into the President: Now comes complainant Republican National Committee, snark firing on all cylinders, formally requesting that a government auditor look into whether President Barack Obama has been bilking taxpayers by billing […]

Just now in: A federal judge has ruled against four GOP presidential candidates seeking a spot on Virginia’s March 6 primary ballot: Texas Gov. Rick Perry, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania and former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman. It’s pretty uncommon for the courts to get involved in primaries […]

This guy has absolutely no morals at all: Speaker John Boehner will host a cocktail party for the Republican National Committee at the same time that President Barack Obama will be addressing the nation at the memorial service for victims of the Tucson shooting. The Ohio Republican is holding a 7 p.m. cocktail reception Wednesday […]

Could this be the end of the national joke known as Michael Steele? That’s what Politico is reporting: Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele faces an all-but-impossible path to reelection this month, as a majority of the RNC’s 168 members indicate that they will not support the controversial chairman for another term. A weeklong canvass […]

It couldn’t happen to a nicer guy either: The Republican National Committee has cancelled a fundraiser with conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart, who is under fire for promoting an edited video that falsely portrays former Agriculture Department employee Shirley Sherrod as having boasted about discriminating against a white farmer looking for her assistance. Breitbart was scheduled […]

BAM: The Austin appeals court erred in deciding that the state’s money-laundering statute – used to prosecute associates of former U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay – did not apply to transfers made via checks, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals ruled today. The court’s 9-0 decision also upheld the state’s election laws prohibiting corporations […]

Republicans be warned: The man recently hired by Michael Steele as a Republican National Committee fundraiser was accused in 2005 by a political action committee he chaired of improperly using PAC money on personal nightclub bills, according to a copy of the complaint filed against him. The revelation about Neil Alpert, who began working as […]

On any other week this might not be that big of a story, but given the expenditures the RNC paid for at a sex club, well today it just adds fuel to the fire: A new entrant in the when-it-rains-it-pours category. The Republican National Committee sent a fundraising mail piece earlier this month with a […]