Posted on 01/06/2009 1:30:17 PM PST by St. Louis Conservative
Ken Blackwell announced Tuesday that the College Republican Leadership endorsed him in his bid for RNC chair. The CRNC is an important organization for college-age Republicans; Lee Atwater, Karl Rove, Morton Blackwell, and Grover Norquist were all former leaders of it.
The group’s national leaders, Charlie Smith, Blake Harris, Dan Carlson, Esther Clark and all state leaders sent an e-mail to the Republican national Committee in which they announced their support for Blackwell. In this e-mail they state: “After two difficult election cycles our party is at a crossroads. We have obligations to our ideals and our constituents to evaluate our strengths and weakness, successes and failures, and set ourselves on a path of renewal and revitalization. We must take this opportunity to elect a leader with a bold vision and the strength to carry it through. We need a leader that will stop allowing the Republican Party to surrender to the other party on campus and online. It is our opinion and the opinion of a large part of our organization that, of the many qualified candidates for RNC Chairman, the candidate best suited to take on these new challenges is Ken Blackwell.”
“Ken understands the importance of increasing our outreach to young and first time voters who will be making formative choices in the next few elections that will shape their voting habits for the rest of their lives. We cannot afford to continue to ignore an entire generation of voters. Ken also understands that we must increase our capabilities online if we’re going to inform and persuade voters effectively and remain competitive with Internet and email fundraising.
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Sounds good.
Ditto them.
Ditto - even though I’m from Maryland and like Steele as a person - I TRUST Blackwell and his record proves that he sticks to his word!
Watched some of RNC candidates on CSPAN and Blackwell stood out, but so did Steele although Steele leans too much to center. Duncan needs to get out of the way!
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