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Hotline: Wadhams backing Anuzis in RNC chairman race

In the race to elect the next Republican National Committee Chairman, Colorado GOP leader Dick Wadhams has reportedly thrown his support behind Saul Anuzis, who was state party chairman in Michigan from 2005 to 2009. Gimlet-eyed observers might call the endorsement sympathetic: Anuzis struggled with losses similar to those presided over by Wadhams in the last three years. Under Anuzis' leadership, Michigan Republicans lost two Congressional seats and their majority in the state House.

Gardner will likely accept RNC Steele’s ‘Congressional Trust 2010’ cash

State Rep and 4th District Congressional candidate Cory Gardner dissed Republican National Committee Chairman Michel Steele at a Fort Collins 9/12 group last week....

No record of McInnis donations to RNC

GOP candidate for governor Scott McInnis, who is drawing heat this week for releasing only partial and sketchy details on his income and charitable...

Colorado’s Wadhams signs onto statement supporting RNC Chairman Steele

Colorado Republican Party head Dick Wadhams was one of 31 state GOP leaders to sign a statement in support of scandal-plagued party Chairman Michael...

Conservative donors see latest RNC scandal as ‘nail in the coffin’

The “suggested amount” portion of the donation form is crossed out. There isn’t a box to check for no donation, so the would-be donor has simply drawn and filled in a new bubble and scrawled “NO.”

Concerned Women for America lashes RNC’s Steele and Obama’s gays

Based on their media releases over the past 24 hours, it's clear the conservative Concerned Women for America find two things to be absolutely...

The no-chick party: GOP (still) on the hunt for ladies

The Republican party struggles to find women candidates and the Republican National Committee's special person in charge of lady-finding may be part of the...

Looking to settle score, GOP seizes on Reid gaffe

Moments before midnight on Friday, Marc Ambinder blogged at The Atlantic about some of the “juiciest revelations” in “Game Change,” a behind-the-scenes book on the 2008 presidential campaign by journalists Mark Halperin and John Heilemann. According to the authors, Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) was bullish on Barack Obama’s chances at becoming the first African-American president because he was “light-skinned” and had “no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.”

RNC’s Jim Bopp authors purity resolution for Republican candidates

David Weigel at The Washington Independent reports on the latest resolution being pushed by Republican National Committee member Jim Bopp, the Indiana RNC member...

Mike Britt file: Bad-acting Penry manager casts shadow on campaign

Josh Penry's gubernatorial campaign manager Mike Britt has been playing on the edges of the law again in the world of email. This time...