{"id":1027,"date":"2010-03-30T02:46:45","date_gmt":"2010-03-30T09:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=1027"},"modified":"2010-03-30T02:46:45","modified_gmt":"2010-03-30T09:46:45","slug":"michael-steele-should-not-resign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/03\/30\/michael-steele-should-not-resign\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Steele Should NOT Resign"},"content":{"rendered":"

The GOP attempt at \u201cSee?  We have one too!\u201d has been a gift that keeps on giving, providing not only multiple examples of GOP hypocrisy, but also, a treasure trove of side-splitting humor.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"GOP-logo-stripper\"<\/a> A spokesman for the Republican National Committee says the committee is investigating a nearly $2,000 expenditure at an L.A. nightclub that regularly features topless dancers, and asking the staffer who spent it to return the money<\/strong>. <\/p>\n

"We are investigating the expenditure in question," said the spokesman in a statement. He also pushed back against the original Daily Caller story, which in detailing the spending, said, RNC Chairman Michael "Steele travels in style." <\/p>\n

"The story willfully and erroneously suggests that the expenditure in question was one belonging to the Chairman. This was a reimbursement made to a non-committee staffer. The Chairman was never at the location in question, he had no knowledge of the expenditure, nor does he find the use of committee funds at such a location at all acceptable," he wrote. "Good reporting would make that distinction crystal clear. The committee has requested that the monies be returned to the committee and that the story be corrected so that it is accurate."<\/p>\n

Late update: The Daily Caller pegs the person who spent the money as one Erik Brown of Orange, Calif. Brown owns a direct mailing firm and has tweeted about hanging out with Steele. (Here’s the cached link<\/a>. Brown’s Twitter account was deleted today.) <\/p>\n

And, according to the Caller<\/a>, Brown’s firm has done work for Steve Poizner’s California gubernatorial campaign, to the tune of $10,000. <\/p>\n

Neither Brown nor a spokesperson for Poizner immediately returned a request for comment… [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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This was more than just a topless club.  It\u2019s specialty is depicting lesbian bondage.  There is pressure on Steele to resign.<\/font><\/p>\n

Rachel Maddow and Ana Marie Cox covered this and other Steele failures in some detail.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Visit msnbc.com for breaking news<\/a>, world news<\/a>, and news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Now, why am I, a lefty blogger, supporting Michael Steele?  The more donors\u2019 contributions the RNC spends depicting homophobic GOP values in lesbian bondage clubs, the less they will have to spend promoting violence against Democrats.  The more inefficient and wasteful the RNC remains, the lest effective they will be at doing the one thing that will damage this country more than any other thing they could do: getting Republicans elected.  The more hypocrisy the RNC displays, the more voters can see that voting Republican is only an option for fools.<\/font><\/p>\n

Stay right where you are, Michael Steele!  You\u2019re doing a heckuva<\/em> job, just like Brownie.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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