CBS News – As Steele’s RNC Falls, RGA Rises
Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, the uber-connected chair of the Republican Governor’s Association and a potential 2012 GOP presidential candidate, was asked on Friday about Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele’s comments largely contradicting the dominant Republican position on the war in Afghanistan.
“Anything that changes the subject from the bad, unpopular policies being pursued by the Obama administration and the Democratic Congress — anything that takes the spotlight off that — is bad for Republican candidates,” he told National Review Online. “Any gaffe that changes the attention is bad.”
Bad for the party, maybe. But not exactly bad for Barbour’s RGA, which in the second quarter of this year raised nearly $19 million — a new record. The group has already raised as much this year ($28 million) as it did in the last midterm election year, 2006. That’s partly attributable to Steele’s repeated gaffe’s as RNC chairman, which have driven money that would traditionally gone to the RNC to other sources.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20010335-503544.html
7/13/10
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