With the Republican Party’s luminaries gathering in New Orleans late last week for the Southern Republican Leadership Conference, Michael Steele’s closest allies were tired of speculation the embattled Republican National Committee chairman would be ousted, so they took matters into their own hands. On Thursday as the SRLC was kicking off, the roughly 20 Steele supporters dubbed the “kitchen cabinet” started working the phones and in 12 hours pulled in as many RNC members as they could to sign a letter stating once and for all that Steele would be staying.
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