Wow, Steele can't catch a break. Some republicans have been quietly complaining about RNC Chairman Michael Steele's performance thus far. Two Kos diaries documented such yesterday: Steele in Deep Shiznit with GOP? and Politico: GOP Regretting Steele.
I don't want this to be another Steele-bashing diary that adds nothing new to the discussion but something new has occurred according to The Hill a black RNC member from North Carolina has called for Steele to resign.
In an e-mail to fellow RNC members obtained by The Hill, Dr. Ada Fisher, North Carolina's national committeewoman, said Steele is "eroding confidence" in the GOP and that members of his transition team should encourage him to step aside. Fisher added Steele's personal e-mail address to the e-mail.
"I don't want to hear anymore [sic] language trying to be cool about the bling in the stimulus package or appealing to D.L. Hughley and blacks in a way that isn't going to win us any votes and makes us frankly appear to many blacks as quite foolish," Fisher wrote.
republicans, please don't listen to Dr. Fisher. She doesn't know what she's talking about. She's just, dare I say, hatin' on Steele. He just needs time to grow into the job.
Fisher, who is one of three black members of the national committee, backed South Carolina GOP Chairman Katon Dawson, whom Steele edged out in the final round of voting to win the chairmanship in late January. She has voiced repeated opposition to Steele, sending dozens of e-mails to committee members even after Steele won election slamming him for any number of chips that have fallen awry.
Calling the Limbaugh-Steele clash a "Republican Horror Show," Fisher expressed what some other GOP strategists have until now only said privately: "I have never seen such ineptness in our GOP leadership," Fisher wrote. "And I though we handled the 2008 elections very poorly."
In a diary yesterday I posed the question of how long does Steele have until he resigns his post to spend more time with is family. The campaign to resign may be accelrating. According to RNC rules a two-thirds vote of the RNC members is needed to remove the chairman. Rule 5(a)(1). Are that many members embarassed enough and think Steele ain't be da man?
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