Michael Steele

Michael Steele is the chairman of the Republican National Committee. He was formerly the lieutenant governor of Maryland, serving from 2003 to 2007.

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Michael Steele
stated on November 8, 2010 an interview on NPR:

"I have won more elections than any chairman since 1938."

By Robert Farley • December 3, 2010

Michael Steele
stated on October 24, 2010 an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press":

"When President, then candidate, Obama was asked to disclose some of his donors because there was suspicion of their being the foreign source of money into his campaign, they refused to do it."

By Robert Farley • October 26, 2010

Michael Steele
stated on May 23, 2010 an interview on ABC's This Week:

The Republican Party "fought very hard in the '60s to get the civil rights bill passed, as well as the voting rights bill."

By Louis Jacobson • May 25, 2010

Michael Steele
stated on May 23, 2010 an interview on ABC's 'This Week.':

In Hawaii, "they don't have a history of throwing incumbents out of office."

By Aaron Sharockman • May 23, 2010

Michael Steele
stated on September 25, 2009 a blast e-mail from Republican National Committee:

In a now-viral video, "impressionable youngsters at a public school in New Jersey ... have been instructed to sing the praises of 'Barack Hussein Obama.'"

By Robert Farley • September 25, 2009

Michael Steele
stated on August 25, 2009 a Fox News interview:

The Department of Veterans Affairs has "a manual out there telling our veterans stuff like, 'Are you really of value to your community?' You know, encouraging them to commit suicide."

By Robert Farley • August 25, 2009

Michael Steele
stated on June 1, 2009 a press release.:

"President Obama will now own 60 percent of GM, and his union buddies will own almost 20 percent."

By Catharine Richert • June 1, 2009

Michael Steele
stated on January 31, 2009 a speech to House Republicans:

"You and I know that in the history of mankind and womankind, government — federal, state, local, or otherwise — has never created one job."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • February 10, 2009

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Americans United for Change
stated on March 9, 2009 a cable TV ad:

Republican leaders said "no" to "tax cuts for 95% of working Americans."

By Robert Farley • March 10, 2009