Candidate For RNC Chair Was Member Of Whites-Only Country Club

[Ichingcarpenter]

Now here's a good way for the GOP to make the case that it hasn't been reduced to a southern regional rump party that's held hostage by intolerant crackpots: Elect as the new chairman of the Republican National Committee a southerner who just resigned a longtime membership in a whites-only country club.

Katon Dawson, the South Carolina GOP chairman, announced his candidacy for RNC chair yesterday.

And guess what: Back in September, when Dawson was first quietly laying the groundwork for his RNC run, The State newspaper reported that he resigned his membership in the nearly 80-year-old Forest Lake Club. Members told the newspaper at the time that the club's deed has a whites-only restriction and has no black members.

Dawson claimed to the paper that he'd actually been working since August to change the club's admission practices after reading about them in the press. Nonetheless, his membership could become an issue in the RNC chair race.

After all, the paper says he was a member for 12 years, so it seems like a pretty fair question to ask whether he started working to change the club's rules this summer, and then resigned, in preparation for his RNC chair candidacy.

http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/11/candidate_for_rnc_chair_was_me.php

[Thrill]

1. Considering they are a Whites-Only party, it makes sense

[floridablue]

2. He never noticed.... LOL

That in 12 years he never observed there were no black people at the club?

[liberal N proud]

3. Same old GOP

[RamboLiberal]

4. K&R - Typical Repuke Hypocrite

Only resigns membership when he notices it may cost him. Then the after 12 years he suddenly noticed and decided it was time for him to try to change the rules.

[DainBramaged]

5. But, why does it matter to us?

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