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GOP picks its first black chairman, but will change follow?
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| Last Edited | ArmyDem Jan 31, 2009 08:48am |
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| News Date | Saturday, January 31, 2009 02:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | By James Rosen and Halimah Abdullah | McClatchy Newspapers
WASHINGTON — Republican leaders from across the country on Friday chose former Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael Steele as the party's first black national chairman in what many said was a necessary response to President Barack Obama's historic election.
Steele, a 50-year-old son of a laundress, defeated two state party heads and incumbent Republican National Committee chairman Mike Duncan in the sixth round of daylong voting.
"This is the dawn of a new party moving in a new direction," Steele said after his win.
The choice of Steele, a relative moderate, to lead the party was the Republicans' first concrete acknowledgement since Obama's inauguration that they must chart a new course after George W. Bush's departure as one of America's least popular presidents.
Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the embodiment of the GOP establishment in Washington, had urged activists a day earlier to end the divisiveness of the Bush years and open the party to new viewpoints.
Steele vowed that Republicans no longer would cede most of the Northeast, the Midwest and other regions to the Democrats. |
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