The next chairman of the Republican National Committee will face a debilitating debt, several of the candidates running for the post said during a candidate forum Monday, offering a stinging, if mostly implicit, indictment of incumbent Michael Steele.
In an hour and a half long gathering sponsored by three conservative organizations, candidates seeking the chairmanship said the next person to assume that office needs to spend the next two years rebuilding the RNC's credibility with major donors who can help prop up the ailing committee.
"It's time for some tough love at the Republican National Committee," said Ann Wagner, the former RNC co-chairman and ambassador to Luxembourg under President George W. Bush. Wagner said the RNC is "steeped in mismanagement, distractions and drama."
The RNC ended the 2010 election cycle with at least $20 million in debt, according to internal estimates. That stands in stark contrast with previous cycles over the last decade, most of which the RNC began in the black. Steele's critics have blamed the incumbent chairman for neglecting major donors, costing the party millions.
"We have to practice what we preach as Republicans, and we have to get our debt under control," said former Bush administration official Maria Cino, who has worked at or with the RNC for the better part of three decades.
"We're going to start out this cycle with one of the largest debts we've ever had. We're going to need to raise $20 million before we can start banking money," added Saul Anuzis, the former Michigan Republican Party chairman making his second run for the top post. "With this unprecedented debt, this is going to be a major challenge with respect to rebuilding our credibility."
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From Planet Moron
Stop, Or I’ll Obtain Stakeholder Advice!
It can be difficult for those charged with keeping us safe to prioritize the threats that face us, what with North Korea threatening war, the ongoing border war with drug cartels to our south, and a threat level that can never seem to get below Elevated.
But Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano has a keen sense of what is important and so cleared her calendar to attend a forum yesterday that identified something our national security apparatus has been sorely lacking:
“Environmental Justice.”
What is environmental justice, you ask?
Environmental justice is like regular justice except that you’re already guilty.
The problem of environmental justice arises when people who earn more money are allowed to live in nicer places than people who earn less.
And it’s probably only going to get worse.
Some examples of our shortfalls in environmental justice include the fact that the air in major cities tends not to be as good as the air in the country. This is clearly unfair to the lower income people who live there, as they deserve all the benefits of living in the country, without having to actually make any of the sacrifices of moving there.
They will take checks, however.
Also, many poorer people hired as farm workers to pick fruit and vegetables are exposed to higher levels of pesticides than people who don’t pick fruit and vegetables for a living.
We are shocked to learn that different jobs entail different kinds of risks and demand that a stop be put to it. And that our taxes go up.
But it’s not just that some places aren’t as good as others or that life involves an infinite series of tradeoffs that are the problems. As Napolitano (who we should probably remind you is in charge of our nation’s security) points out economic justice demands that we address global warming as well:
“Changes in climate really translate into huge environmental changes that have impacts on communities and also on national security, because they raise not only the issues of making sure that we are taking into account and caring for the most at-risk populations, but that we are also looking at and planning for the potentiality of mass migrations, demographic changes, patterns, concentrations of economic assets, population growth in different areas, deteriorating infrastructure. All of this gets knit together under this umbrella of climate change and environmental adaptation.”
We don’t know about you, but we’ll sleep better at night knowing that the Secretary of Homeland Security is all over the potentiality of concentrations of assets. (Although it’s not entirely clear if anyone has told her where all the economic assets are currently concentrated, because we’d be really interested in seeing her plan for fixing to that.)
Read the rest here.
Obama sure knows how to pick ‘em.
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