Anti-Saul Anuzis site surfaces

Questions for Reince Priebus
Get alerts when there is a new article that might interest you. Heading into the RNC meeting and election this week, the Hotline reports that Wisconsin GOP chairman Reince Priebus remains the frontrunner in the race for RNC chairman. The winner needs 85 of the 168 RNC votes, and Priebus has 38 publicly declared supporters, while former Michigan GOP chairman and current Michigan committeeman Saul Anuzis has 14; former Missouri chairman and RNC co-chairman Ann Wagner has 14; and former Bush admini...

Michael Steele within striking distance of another term?
Despite Disapproval of his job performance and significant obstacles to winning another term, RNC Chairman Michael Steele is within striking distance of winning another term: Wisconsin GOP Chairman Reince Priebus remains the front-runner for the Republican National Committee chairmanship, which some observers predicted could spell trouble for his bid. Priebus leads the field with 36 RNC members publicly backing him, according to a count by National Review Online. Current RNC Chairman Michael Ste...

First RNC ballot crucial for Priebus
Wisconsin GOP Chairman Reince Priebus needs a strong showing in the first round of balloting at the Republican National Committee chairmanship vote or he could lose support, according to one observer. "If Reince does well, he may surge on momentum and take it fast," GOP consultant Mike Murphy wrote in an analysis of the race.  "Many of the RNC members have only made a first ballot commitment. If they think Priebus is going to surge, many will join the bandwagon to be on the winning side. "If...

Former Steele consultant sez he's not involved in RNC race
I was puzzled by a line in Erick Erickson's Endorsement this morning of RNC Saul Anuzis. Erickson, the founder of RedState, explained that he was concerned about Reince Priebus's candidacy in part because of who was backing the Wisconsin GOP chair. "I have been personally concerned because several people tell me that the same consultants who backed Steele two years ago are backing Priebus," wrote Erickson, without offering any evidence. The chief consultants who backed Steele two ye...

Updating Hotline's RNC Chairman's Race Whip Count
Members of the Republican National Committee are already starting to arrive in Washington ahead of Friday's vote. As each Candidate for chairman scrambles for last-minute Endorsements, they're finding fewer uncommitted targets. Candidates have until Thursday at 10 a.m. to file papers informing the RNC's General Counsel's office which states will be nominating them. Each Candidate has to win backing from two members from each of three states in order to be formally nominated for chairman. So far,...

Inside the Race for RNC Chairman
Mike Murphy: "RNC Elections are very hard to predict. They run under special rules of gravity based nearly as much on personal relationships as ideology. My handicapping -- a partially informed guess at best -- is as follows. Reince Priebus, the very able Wisconsin state chair is the clear front-runner. Michael Steele the Incumbent is way behind and nearly certain to lose. Most of the voters are still not telling outsiders their choice. But the actual committee members are talking to each other...

Ann Wagner Surges in RNC Chair Race Steele & Priebus Slide
Ambassador, Proven Republican Leader, Visionary, and “West Point Mom” — Ann Wagner is running for RNC Chair. Ann Wagner stands with the Troops - and keeps a Glock pistol at home in her gun cabinet. Ann Wagner had a successful week campaigning for RNC Chair. She did well at the debate and picked up some major Endorsements including the the endorsement of former RNC Chair, Governor Marc Racicot. Ann released this statement on Satuday. With only one week before the RNC Chai...

Steele in striking distance of second RNC term
Wisconsin GOP Chairman Reince Priebus remains the front-runner for the Republican National Committee chairmanship, which some observers predicted could spell trouble for his bid. Priebus leads the field with 36 RNC members publicly backing him, according to a count by National Review Online. Current RNC Chairman Michael Steele is a close second with 27 members backing him. Priebus' front-runner status could prove a liability, according to Mike Duncan. The former RNC chairman, who was Steele'...

Critic hits Anuzis as 'unfit' over national popular vote plan
As the race for RNC Chairman remains a wide open, several-sided battle, a committee member from Alaska is going after one Candidate, Saul Anuzis, for his stated support for a "National Popular Vote" system, a proposed alternative to the Electoral College. The Legislation, which has passed in seven State Legislatures, would commit those states' electors to the winner of the national popular vote on the condition that all states pass similar legislation. The plan would, among other eff...

Saying no to Boehner
Speaker John Boehner has spent part of his first days as the nation's Most Powerful Republicans being told "no" by lower-ranking state party officials. Boehner has been backing Maria Cino for RNC Chair from the start, as Maggie Haberman first reported, and has been calling state chairs with "a plug ...but not a hard push" for Cino, as Jonathan Martin wrote recently. And many of them seem to be rebuffing the Speaker. Connecticut Chairman Chris Healy endorsed Saul Anuzis afte...

Opinion: Daniels, Barbour Should Heed RNC Candidates Pro-Life Unity
The president of a pro-life women’s group has a message for potential Presidential Candidate Mitch Daniels and Haley Barbour, the Governors of Indiana and Mississippi. Marjorie Dannenfeler, the head of the Susan B. Anthony List, noted that each of the Candidates for the chairmanship of the national Republican Party said they were pro-life on Abortion and endorsed Legislation to de-fund the Planned Parenthood Abortion business. Writing in an opinion column at National Review, Dannenfelser s...

SBA Lists Marjorie Dannenfelser Claims Victory Over Social Issues Truce
The debate was completely devoid of the kind of Fireworks that political commentators love. As SBA List and National Organization for Marriage Skype pre-interviews had suggested, each of the five Candidates affirmed without hesitation their determination to support the Republican platform’s social-issue stands and to honor that support in the party’s programs, from recruiting Candidates to buying ads to micro-targeting votes. The aura of unity sorely exasperated professional cynics ...

RNC Chair Support Update
As anticipated, the Endorsements have begun rolling in during the days leading up to the RNC vote on Friday — with 17 additional Endorsements coming yesterday and this morning already. The major winner today so far is Michael Steele who has amazingly released ten additional endorsements. Give the guy credit, he’s not giving up in the face of almost sure loss. Here’s the most recent tally, with the movement since Friday in parentheses: 1. Priebus - 38 (+4) 2. Steele R...

Good Morning FishbowlDC Readers
“Had so many send me ugly words from both sides. Rather than post/defend/condemn, I pledge to be more careful in my own language” — Roll Call Associate Politics Editor Christina Bellantoni in a weekend tweet. “ Daniel Hernandez , who risked his life to help Rep. Giffords , seems like a fine choice to sit in the House Gallery during State of the Union.” — @WestWingReport in a weekend tweet. “Gabe Zimmerman was aide killed. I knew Gabe well during my time ...

Silence Is Complicity & Defensiveness Is Endorsement
I've just finished up 3 hours of the most difficult radio I've ever had to do. The topic, of course, was the horrific shooting in Tucson, which has deeply affected me, as it has many others. As someone who had to flee the Capitol on 9/11, was warned of Anthrax contamination in the congressional office I was working in, and has faced various threats of violence during my media career, I was shaken by the scenes in Arizona more so than by any other news imagery in a long time. The reason the ra...

RNC Race Focusing On Finances
The voting members of the Republican National Committee are spending the final week before electing a chairman on Friday debating each Candidate's Fundraising prowess, a recognition that the next national party chairman will have to spend most of his or her time dialing for dollars and rebuilding a cash-poor committee. And the conversation is turning nasty. Each Candidate's supporters are delving into rivals' Fundraising performance in hopes of dredging up material that would raise doubts in vot...

Are RNC Committeemen Even Listening?
I wonder if Republican Committeemen are even listening to the Republican Grassroots. Or do they just think they know best? That’s what they thought two years ago. They thought the RNC needed a black man as the face of the Republican Party to take on Barack Obama. They thought the consultants knew best. Now look at where we are. Maybe, just maybe, if the Republican Committeemen listened to the grassroots for just a minute they’d be able to finally stop the revolt among the grassroot...

Liberty Links: Morning Reads for Tuesday, January 11th
Below is a collection of several links that we didn’t get around to writing about, but still wanted to post for readers to examine. The stories typically range from news about prominent figures in The Liberty movement, national politics, the Nanny State, Foreign Policy and free markets. Posting will be light today. Man angry after gun-point Raid at his home (Toronto Sun) Poll: Most Americans Feel Rhetoric, Tucson Shooting Unrelated (CBS News) Missing from Arizona shooting debate: Guns (Politic...

Blogger Schlussel renames organization after CAIR lawsuit
During the weekend, Schlussel renamed the identically named organization she created last year to Council of American-Israel Relations to head off a Legal Battle with CAIR, the nation's largest Islamic Civil Rights group. Because of that, U.S. District Judge Avern Cohn declined Monday to formally order Schlussel to stop using CAIR's full name. He also refused to prevent her from using CAIR's acronym in Internet Domain Names she created. He said he woul...

The Present Madness
On the radio this morning, Bill Bennett and I had a discussion about the Arizona massacre, and the political use of it made by the Left in this country. A few observations. In a way, they have won. “They”? I mean, the Krugmans, the Sullivans, the Olbermanns: “They.” They’ve won because we are on their turf, where they have dragged us, or enticed us. The shooting in Arizona has nothing to do with politics. Nothing to do with Republicans, nothing to do with conservati...

Safeway Services' Third GSA Contract Affirms Company's Continued Growth in Industrial Distributor Market
MACHESNEY PARK, Ill., Jan. 11, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Safeway Services of Rockford Inc. (https://safewaysite.com), a distributor of high-end industrial grade products for a wide range of businesses, recently received its third contract from the U.S. General Services Administration. "Less than two percent of contractors who have GSA contracts ever obtain more than one contract at a single time," said Tom Lynde, Safeway's president and founder. "This third contract shows that the U.S. government reco...

Jeb Bush on the Need for Hispanic Outreach
Get alerts when there is a new article that might interest you. Despite this success among Candidates, Conservatives continue to get unacceptably low support among Hispanic voters nationally. According to the Pew Hispanic Center, only 38 percent of Hispanics voted Republican in the 2010 congressional Elections. In fact, center-right candidates have failed to win more than 40 percent of the Hispanic vote nationally since 2004. While the reason for such low numbers is debatable, the way to turn th...

4 Killed In Ivory Coast Raid
Security forces loyal to Ivory Coast's Incumbent leader, who refuses to cede power, on Tuesday fired volleys of gunshots, leaving at least four people dead after they cordoned off a large section of a neighborhood known to be his rival's stronghold. United Nations peacekeepers arriving in a convoy of 13 vehicles were forced by a mob to make a U-turn as they attempted to enter the area. Young men allied with Incumbent Laurent Gbagbo amassed on the highway, wielding sticks and throwing large objec...

4 dead as forces raid Ivory Coast neighborhood
ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — Security forces loyal to Ivory Coast’s Incumbent leader, who refuses to cede power, on Tuesday fired volleys of gunshots, leaving at least four people dead after they cordoned off a large section of a neighborhood known to be his rival’s stronghold. United Nations peacekeepers arriving in a convoy of 13 vehicles were forced by a mob to make a U-turn as they attempted to enter the area. Young men allied with Incumbent Laurent Gbagbo amassed on the hig...

4 dead as forces raid Ivory Coast neighborhood
A rebel soldier gestures to show that his only weapon is a knife, as he describes how heavily-armed security forces descended on the neighborhood and killed at least two people, in the Abobo neighborhood of Abidjan, Ivory Coast, Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2011. U.N. peacekeepers retreated from a neighborhood where security forces loyal to Incumbent leader Laurent Gbagbo had opened fire Tuesday, turning around at least nine U.N. vehicles after dozens of angry young men built a Blockade. Security forces lo...