Reince was still in college then. By that kind of simpleton thinking Michele Bachmann and Charles Krauthammer can't possibly be conservatives because they once were liberal, both well into their adult years. How far back do you want to go with your purity tests?
Later, as an attorney, he participated in cases in Milwaukee where he confiscated land from private citizens via eminent domain.
"Confiscated"? That parcel was purchased at a fair price by the City of Milwaukee from a corporation to fix a terrible freeway section. This is exactly the kind of public use our nation's founders intended when they added the Fifth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
He also worked privately on behalf of Wisconsin companies angling for huge stimulus payouts... at the same time the anti-stimulus RNC employed him as general counsel.
This is a pathetic complaint. I doubt you could find any successful attorney anywhere who hasn't do some work with companies involved with stimulus funding given how large a fraction of the economy it is. If you really believe there is something wrong with benefiting from stimulus payouts then you should personally boycott driving on any road with improvements funded by stimulus funding. Good luck with that.
He did some good work in WI, but the TEA Party really carried the water.
Ha!!! The first TEA party rally in Madison was organized and funded out of his WISGOP office. You are embarrassing yourself!
This is not the best guy for RNC chair, and it just reinforces the belief that the GOP is making backroom deals... again.
No, it just shows that there are ornery people like you who will condemn the Republican Party for whatever it does without a shred of evidence.
Settle down, Francis. The shrill tone of your hysterical, handwringing response is only painting you as apologist, which is further underlined by your “arguments”:
-Reince was in graduate school when he worked for the NAACP, not college. It was about ten years ago.
-Since when is a “fair price” justification for forcing someone off their land?
-If everyone is underhanded, it’s okay to be underhanded, too. Great rationale. Did you miss the part where he was working for the guys who were against the stimulus at the same time he was paid by companies lobbying for it?
-Are you reeeeeeally trying to say that Priebus was solely responsible for driving the TEA party in WI? Strictly speaking, it is a true grassroots organization: at the same time there was one raly in Madison, there were six ir seven other ones going on. The groundswell of the movement carried the elections, not the efforts of one person. Of course, if you have evidence that Priebus was able to solely motivate an entire organization which is by nature leaderless, please be my guest.
My point is that while he is better than Steele, he isn’t exactly the sort of bedrock conservative we should be looking for. If you knew anything about the namesake of your screen name, you might begin to comprehend that.