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GOP Chairman Call for Abolition

By "Persian Cowboy"

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Washington, DC ? Embattled Republican National Committee Chairman Michael S. Steele lashed out at GOP infighting Tuesday and urged the party faithful - some of whom have criticized his erratic statements - to be more like him: "unconventional, unpredictable ? to do from time to time the unexpected."At a fundraiser for the Anne Arundel County Republican Party that raised $36,000, the former Maryland lieutenant governor jokingly acknowledged the rough road he has traveled since taking over the national party this year."Someone told me this whole chairmanship thing would be a cakewalk," he told the crowd of more than 400, acknowledging that he has managed to "tick off" many people. ?So let me irritate my party just a little bit more by saying that I applaud New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson for being the statesman that he is, because I agree with his signing the bill to abolish the death penalty in that state and I think the Republican Party should make abolition of the death penalty a central plank in its platform going forward...continue to full post

Full post as published by Texas Death Penalty Blog on April 01, 2009 (boomark / email).