May 23, Kingsport : RNC Gopführer Steele to Applaud Dirty Tricks of Racist Sullivan County GOPers

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RNC Chairman Michael Steele to speak at Sullivan County GOP Reagan Day Dinner
http://www.timesnews.net/article.php?id=9013863

By Hank Hayes
Published May 15th, 2009

Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman Michael Steele — the man responsible for bringing Republicans back to national prominence after a tough election cycle last year — will deliver the keynote address at the Sullivan County GOP Reagan Day Dinner.

The event will be held Saturday, May 23, at 6:30 p.m. at the MeadowView Marriott <U.S. 23>. Limited tickets are available for $50 apiece.

Steele is expected to acknowledge Sullivan County Republicans’ efforts in making Tennessee more of a red state last year amid the election of Democrat Barack Obama to the White House.

Now infamous TNRP "Blackbird Mailer" of the 2008 Tennessee election campaign in Sullivan County.

Losing GOP presidential candidate John McCain got more than 26,000 votes than Obama in the November presidential election in Sullivan County and won Tennessee.

Republicans also won history-making majorities in both houses of the Tennessee legislature.

Steele is the first African-American to be the RNC chairman. He beat out former Tennessee Republican Party Chairman Chip Saltsman, a former campaign manager of GOP presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee, for the job.

Steele was also the first African-American to serve in a statewide office in Maryland, as lieutenant governor from 2003 to 2007. He chaired the state’s Minority Business Enterprise task force.

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