Tag: RNC

Sources tell Breitbart News that Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus flew to Nevada on Monday night in order to persuade Nevada Republican National Committeeman James Smack to drop his support for RNC Chair challenger Mark Willis from Maine. Previously,

On Tuesday, Democrats re-elected Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (D-FL) to a second term as chair of the Democratic National Committee. Wasserman Schultz said she was “humbled” that Democrats and President Obama had confidence in her to lead the party. An internal Obama campaign

Fulfilling all the worst expectations of the tea party, Republican Party leaders today came out of the woodwork to celebrate the false bipartisanship touted by President Obama – a faux bipartisanship that will soon be used as a club against

On Tuesday, the Associated Press reported that RNC Chairman Reince Priebus, who suddenly faces a challenge from Maine Republican National Committeeman Mark Willis in his bid for a second term, “has sought out Paul supporters as he seeks re-election.”  The

Mark Willis, the Republican National Committeeman from Maine who is challenging incumbent Reince Priebus for the RNC Chairmanship, told Breitbart News on Sunday that the RNC needs a vendor selection process based on competitive bidding and a leader who understands

In July 2009, after Michael Steele took over as chair of the Republican National Committee, the 168 members of the RNC passed a “Resolution in Support of Good Governance” that required the chair to conduct competitive bids for all contracts

A few days before Christmas, Engage DC, a well respected new media consulting firm, released ‘“Inside the Cave,” a detailed account of how the Obama campaign thoroughly dominated the GOP in the 2012 digital arena through superior management, innovative analytics, and

According to an article published in the MIT Technology Review last week, the Obama campaign adeptly used “big data” to predict voting behavior while the Romney team slept. The article made the case that when it came to technology, the Obama

After Wayne LaPierre spoke of the NRA’s desire to help make children safer by using its own money and resources to train teachers and work with police departments to have an armed presence at every school that wants it, New

Last Monday Ari Fleischer, former press secretary to George W. Bush, was named by Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus to be one of five committee chairs for what had been billed as a “full autopsy” of the Republican 2012 election efforts

I am now embarrassed for the House Republicans. This weekend, we learned first that Speaker Boehner had ceded a foundational principle of the Republican Party and offered up higher tax rates as part of a deal to avoid the “fiscal

The RNC confirmed this morning that its recently announced “autopsy” effort on the 2012 campaign — which will be conducted by establishment Republican insiders — is the only official review of the 2012 campaign they are conducting. In an email

A top GOP legal adviser to several House and Senate Republicans says the Republican National Committee’s newly formed panel to study the GOP’s failed 2012 election strategy must focus on rooting out cronyism among the party’s consultant class. “Until Chairman

On Monday, Republican National Committee Chairman Priebus announced that a five person team of insiders  will chair the committee responsible for his much promised “autopsy” of the failed 2012 Republican campaign. Priebus had promised that the “autopsy” would be conducted

To avoid a repeat of last month’s election loss, the GOP needs to conduct a thorough review of what went right, and what went wrong, in the campaign. Clearly some, and possibly many, elements of the campaign didn’t work. There

Federal Election Commission reports filed by the Republican National Committee on Thursday show that one-third of the $59.3 million it spent directly with vendors in the last five weeks of the election was paid to one telemarketing firm, FLS Connect,

Yahoo News is reporting that far-left anarchist Lisa Fithian is training protestors in Michigan on “direct action techniques” in preparation for the upcoming right-to-work protests.  Fithian, exposed in the film Occupy Unmasked, is the radical frequently employed by labor unions

Even though RNC Chairman Reince Priebus has secured nearly double the votes he needs to retain his chairmanship, Republicans last week floated former Oklahoma Congressman J.C. Watts as a potential replacement. But his post-Congressional lobbying career may dissuade Watts from

The White House argued that its $800 billion stimulus plan passed in 2009 would bring down the unemployment rate to 5.6%. And even as Friday’s jobs report showed that the unemployment rate is 7.7%, Democrats and President Barack Obama may push

Federal Election Commission financial reports filed Thursday showed that two consulting firms with close ties to key staffers at the Romney campaign and the Republican National Committee were paid more than $152 million by the three organizations that funded Mitt