RGA no quiere a Steele

Parece que hay consenso en la conferencia anual de la Republican Governors Association (RGA) sobre la necesidad de sustituir a Michael Steele como presidente del Partido Republicano. Barbour, Pawlenty, Perry o el recién elegido Gobernador de Wisconsin Scott Walker se han expresado con bastante claridad en ese sentido.

El nombre que está ganando terreno en los últimos días como posible alternativa a Steele es el jovencísimo director ejecutivo de la RGA, Nick Ayers (leer este perfil que le dedicó el Washington Post hace unos meses). Ayers no forma parte del actual Comité Nacional Republicano. En caso de llegarse a la conclusión de que un miembro del actual comité tendría más posibilidades de derrotar a Steele, suenan sobre todo tres nombres: Saul Anuzis, ex presidente del Partido Republicano de Michigan; Reince Priebus, presidente del GOP de Wisconsin; y Gentry Collins, el recién dimitido director político del RNC.

Top governors turn against Michael Steele

(...) SAN DIEGO — Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele’s prospects for a second term dimmed Wednesday as Republicans went public with their concerns about the committee’s fundraising and two prominent governors indicated a preference for new leadership atop the party.

Asked in an interview at the Republican Governors Association meeting here whether there should be a new chairman of the party, Mississippi Gov. and outgoing RGA Chairman Haley Barbour flatly said: “Yes.”

“To defeat an incumbent president, even one that’s got the political problems of this one, the RNC has to operate at absolutely maximum capacity, and this year they operated far, far, far below that in terms of fundraising, in terms of grass-roots organization and in terms of building strong, self-reliant state parties,” said Barbour, an influential voice in the GOP and himself a former national party chairman.

In a separate interview, Texas Gov. Rick Perry, the incoming RGA chairman and one of the nation’s longest-serving governors, didn’t say directly that Steele should go but made an impassioned case for members of the RNC to consider Nick Ayers, executive director of the governors association.

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