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Republican National Committee votes unanimously against marriage equality
The Republican National Committee (RNC) unanimously adopted resolutions against marriage equality on Friday, despite rising support for the idea among voters nationwide. The Washington Post reported that the resolutions, which were approved without debate, include one supporting marriage “as the union of one man and one woman, and as the…
Soledad tells former RNC chair: Minorities ‘know you and they… don’t like you’
CNN host Soledad O’Brien on Friday advised former Republican National Committee Chairman Mel Martinez that Republicans would need to do more that just encourage African-Americans and Hispanics to get to know them better because “they know you and they decided they don’t like you.” Speaking with Martinez before the the…
Romney rakes in $170 million for September
WASHINGTON — Republican Mitt Romney raised more than $170 million in September, aides said Monday — a record for his campaign but shy of President Barack Obama’s $181 million haul for the same period. With the latest fundraising figures, the Romney campaign and the Republican National Committee (RNC) plus state…
Rep. Cummings probes RNC consulting firm over voter fraud allegations
Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) on Monday requested GOP consultant Nathan Sproul provide documents regarding his relationship with the RNC, which recently fired his firm over allegations of voter registration fraud. The RNC hired Strategic Allied Consulting to run a voter registration drives in Florida, Virginia, Colorado, North Carolina and Nevada.…
Republicans fire voter registration firm owned by Romney consultant
The Republican National Committee fired a voter registration firm owned by a paid consultant to the party’s presidential candidate Mitt Romney Thursday, after Florida officials traced more than 100 possibly fake registration forms back to the company. NBC News reported that the RNC cut ties with Strategic Allied Consulting (SAC),…
Goldie Taylor: RNC ‘peanut’ incident means GOP needs to step up on race
The CNN camera operator who had peanuts thrown at her and was called an “animal” by RNC delegates earlier this week has spoken out to Richard Prince’s Journal-isms blog about the incident, saying, “I hate that it happened, but I’m not surprised at all.” Patricia Carroll, 34, said that the…
Protesters join homeless at RNC’s ‘Romneyville’
A few blocks from the Republican National Convention, the Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign wages a protest and tries to shed light on poverty and the high foreclosure rate.…
‘We built this’ RNC speaker complains about lack of government contracts
A speaker at 2012 Republican National Convention (RNC) castigated the Obama administration on Tuesday for not giving his business enough government contracts for it to grow, seemingly contradicting the Republican Party’s message that conservatives built their wealth without help from anyone else. While that message, built off a misquote of…
Jon Stewart: ‘We built this’ RNC theme a tribute to union workers
On his show Tuesday night, The Daily Show host Jon Stewart joked that the theme for the Republican National Convention — “We Built This” — was a tribute to the union workers who built the state-funded Tampa Bay Times Forum. He also lampooned the media’s histrionic fear of Tropical Storm…
Occupy activists clash with Westboro Baptist church protestors outside the Republican convention
While delegates and newsmakers more or less took the day off while waiting for Issac (and waiting out tornado warnings in the area), the March on the RNC went forward as initially planned. But when the official march reached its end point, a few of the participants decided they weren’t…
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