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October 20, 2007
Bye Bye RINO ~ Martinez Quits As RNC Chairman
Martinez Quits As RNC General Chairman
SFGate.com
Mel Martinez, the public face of the Republican National Committee as its general chairman, announced Friday he was stepping down from his post after serving only 10 months.
"I believe that our future as a party and nation is bright and I have every intention of continuing to fight for our president, our party and our candidates," the Florida senator said in a statement.
His resignation came months earlier than anticipated. Martinez wasn't expected to step down until a Republican presidential nominee was selected, and the earliest that could occur is February.
The RNC said Martinez' job would not be filled.
Martinez, a prominent Cuban-American who is up for re-election in 2010, said he was relinquishing the job to spend more time focusing on his Florida constituents. He also said the RNC had achieved the objective he set when he assumed the job in January.
"I would love to tell you that it was all a perfect world, but you know in a practical matter that it's not, and sure, I think that the conflicting pressures and my always making the choice for the Senate, which is what I should and always did, at times caused frustration in not being able to get to an event or give a speech," Martinez said in a conference call with reporters.
The RNC, which raised $61 million by the end of September, has been the only national GOP party committee to outraise its Democratic counterpart this year.
Though the party committee has done better than the Democratic National Committee in fundraising this year, Republicans have privately expressed concern that the RNC's finances are not stronger. The RNC has not kept pace with the far more robust financial picture the party displayed in 2003, when it had raised more than $77 million by the end of September, and 2005 when it had raised about $78.5 million for the same period.
Several Republicans with close ties to the RNC said Martinez needed to focus on retaining his seat in Florida, where his job approval rating has fallen. A Quinnipiac University poll in September found that 38 percent of those surveyed said they approved of the job he was doing, down from 48 percent in February.
By tapping Martinez to be the party's public persona a year ago, the White House had turned to a lawmaker who has been a staunch supporter of the president, including on the issue of comprehensive immigration reform, including a guest-worker program.
Wild Thing's comment.........
GOOD and take your amnesty jerk buddies with you! This is great news.....he presided over the malaise and in his spare time........poked sharp sticks in conservatives eyes repeatedly.
"said he was relinquishing the job to spend more time focusing on his Florida constituents"
YOU, yes YOU Martinez, illegal hugger you are a LYING Piece of poop! He never replied even once to any of my emails like he give a hoot about his constituents.
Mel Martinez turned his back on the US after stabbing the country in the heart. The very country that gave him his freedom and a second chance at life! His open border/total amnesty advocacy and attacking legal immirgrants was the last straw.
Now we need to get his traitorous glutes out of the senate.
Take your commie buddies with ya and don’t let the door hit ya on the bottom on the way out.
Posted by Wild Thing at October 20, 2007 12:45 AM
Comments
Do you think it was because he raised more pesos than U.S. dollars for the GOPhers? - FI$TFULL OF DOLLAR$ 2007?
Posted by: darthcrUSAderworldtour07 at October 20, 2007 04:28 AM
Yea, he's gone!
I think it is interesting that the RNC will not fill the job of General Chairman. They realize they have angered their base and cannot raise funds anymore like they have in the past.
President Bush's crony choices for various positions during his six years have certainly not been wise. Bush may not be able to find anyone willing to fill this particular seat. The RNC is unpopular with Conservatives and a true Conservative might shy away from the chairmanship. The RINOs know that they are marked if they take the seat. The General Chairmanship of the RNC is like a contaminated entity. No one wants to get near it now.
To me, the entire RNC is representative of the squandering of power the Republicans have accomplished in the last six years.
Posted by: TomR at October 20, 2007 07:09 AM
Finally--now let's put Rick Santorum there--he needs a job and he's an honest man.
You can't just give a job to someone because you think they'll bring in a certain type of voters.
That's stupid.
It's like losing a promotion at work because you don't speak spanish.
Bush fell right into the Nixon trap. You can't please both sides and you can't change horses in the middle of a stream--all you get is wet!
But now the dummycraps will wave their stinky little fingers in the air and claim that Bush hates Latinos. You watch and see. He lost his latino people in his cabinet (after they forced his hand.) Even if Mel was a RINO, they just keep pushing and pushing. Whose next? They won't stop until he has no cabinet left.
Posted by: Lynn at October 20, 2007 08:53 AM
Darth, haha Fist full of dollars is right.
Posted by: Wild Thing at October 20, 2007 10:59 AM
Tom, I agree so much with what you said. That is what has happened. They took our hard earned money, used to to promote a left agenda and we are ticked. Too many rinos, way too many, heck one is too many. Now they want us to just stay quiet and kiss up to them anyway. Nah don't think so, I have had enough. At least I will let them know how ticked I am, probably won't matter to them, but it makes me feel better. haha
I sent my post to Mel Martinez at his site.
Posted by: Wild Thing at October 20, 2007 11:02 AM
Lynn, yes little by little people are leaving.
"You can't just give a job to someone because you think they'll bring in a certain type of voters.
That's stupid"
I agree, it backfries every time from what I have seen.
Posted by: Wild Thing at October 20, 2007 11:05 AM
Wild Thing, you make my heart sing.
You make everything, groovy.
Song by Robert Kennedy, I think.
Mel isn't a real RINO, of course. He's okay on most issues. But immigration and blindly following Dubya down the earmarked crony road to bankruptcy are more important than most other issues.
He answered only one of my emails on immigration with a canned speech. For a while I thought his staff didn't read their emails. And I was polite.
Mildly sarcastic but polite. I guess Spanish would have gotten more responses. His staff doesn't know Jack, apparently, in more ways than one. Jack
Posted by: His Terrible Swift Sword at October 20, 2007 11:01 PM
His Terrible Swift Sword, LOL that is funny also about ...."Spanish would have gotten more responses" from Mel. hahaha
Posted by: Wild Thing at October 20, 2007 11:32 PM
