RNC Chief of Staff Quits
RNC chief of staff Ken McKay has resigned from the national committee a week after improper expenditures came to light, a top GOP source tells Hotline OnCall.
McKay had been on the job about a year. His exit is the latest moment of fallout in a scandal that took on an outsized role after The Daily Caller reported last week that the RNC had spent $2K at a Los Angeles nightclub, an expense that drew criticism from social conservatives.
McKay fired the staffer who made the expense. Still, RNC chair Michael Steele, who has faced a week of criticism for the incident, felt more had to be done.
"The chairman felt it was critical to make a move swiftly to ensure that no improper expenses happen in the future," RNC spokesman Doug Heye told Hotline OnCall.
McKay will be replaced by Mike Leavitt, a well-regarded former aide to Sen. John McCain's WH '08 campaign.
The move won quick praise from other RNC veterans.
"Mike is a very smart political operative and effective manager of people and resources," ex-RNC chair Ed Gillespie said in an e-mail. "He knows the chairman well and how best to maximize his strengths. He also has very good relations with the other committees and Republican strategists. Chairman Steele's decision to put Mike Leavitt in charge of the building will be reassuring to a lot of Republicans."
rearranging chairs on the titanic......
Don't let the door hit you on the way down er aah out!
Former aide to Sen. John McCain's '08 campaign?
Reassuring to a lot of Republicans?
Yeah, right.
How 'bout Chairman Steele stepping down?
Oh, right! The RNC is going to be helped by hiring McCain's old aide? Yeah, right, the same aide who stood at McCain's side on election night as McCain drooled so badly over Obama that McCain needed a diaper to wipe himself off with; the same aide who helped plunge knives into the back of Sarah Palin and threw her to CBS wolves with a pork chop tied around her neck; the same aide who supports a RINO Senator who roots for amnesty for illegals and whose wife and daughter call us filthy names if we're not for gay marriage. Yeah, THIS aide is going to make the RNC appeal to all us conservatives and make us what to give it money. Right? Wrong!
The only thing this aide will accomplish is to simply move an RNC deck chair from one side of the Titanic to the other.
This whole affair has been a distraction exploited by the MSM, Democrat strategists and sore-ass conservatives to the detriment of conservatives and the Republican Party. Enough is a enough, social conservatives that wish to continue this scab picking are worse than fools.
BTW I no more wish to see Sen. McCain as the Republican candidate than to see Sen. Spector re-elected. Time for the dinosaurs to go!