Sour Green: Donors Call for Steele's Resignation

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Michael Steele has a bull's eye on his back. Those targeting him aren't the opposition (though it usually is). Now, more and more of those who line the RNC's pockets want the controversial chairman out.

The Daily Caller exposed damning financial records of the RNC, which showed multiple instances of exorbitantly expensive trips, hotels and flights recently, all coming from the donations of major party backers — though the RNC hastened to say Steele did not patronize the club.

It was hardly sufficient to stem the rising tide of discontent with the leadership provided by Steele, who has been under fire almost from the moment he was appointed as RNC chief two weeks after President Obama's historic inauguration.

Douglas MacKinnon, former press secretary to Majority Leader Robert Dole, took the biggest swipe at Steele."For those donors who truly believe in conservative values, this latest news about Steele has to be very disturbing," he said, according to the Huffington Post. "No matter which side of the aisle you find yourself, if you are giving a political party your hard-earned money, you should have no doubts that it is going to be spent as advertised and not to provide a spoiled, egocentric, out-of-touch chairman with frivolous luxuries which are out of reach of the vast majority of the American people. Michael Steele needs to resign and let the RNC vote in a man or woman who understands that his or her needs do not come before the needs of the nation or the party.

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