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Michael Steele is the chairman of the Republican National Committee. He was formerly the lieutenant governor of Maryland, serving from 2003 to 2007.

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Michael Steele
stated on November 8, 2010 in an interview on NPR:

"I have won more elections than any chairman since 1938."

By Robert Farley • December 3, 2010
Michael Steele
stated on October 24, 2010 in an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press":

"When President, then candidate, Obama was asked to disclose some of his donors because there was suspicion of their being the foreign source of money into his campaign, they refused to do it."

By Robert Farley • October 26, 2010
Michael Steele
stated on May 23, 2010 in an interview on ABC's This Week:

The Republican Party "fought very hard in the '60s to get the civil rights bill passed, as well as the voting rights bill."

By Louis Jacobson • May 25, 2010
Michael Steele
stated on May 23, 2010 in an interview on ABC's 'This Week.':

In Hawaii, "they don't have a history of throwing incumbents out of office."

By Aaron Sharockman • May 23, 2010
Michael Steele
stated on September 25, 2009 in a blast e-mail from Republican National Committee:

In a now-viral video, "impressionable youngsters at a public school in New Jersey ... have been instructed to sing the praises of 'Barack Hussein Obama.'"

By Robert Farley • September 25, 2009

Americans United for Change
stated on March 9, 2009 in a cable TV ad:

Republican leaders said "no" to "tax cuts for 95% of working Americans."

By Robert Farley • March 10, 2009

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