QUOTE: I'm a pro-life Roman Catholic conservative, always have been.
AUTHOR: Michael Stephen Steele (born October
19, 1958) is an American politician and MSNBC political analyst as of May 2011.
Steele served as the first African-American chairman of the Republican National
Committee from January 2009 until January 2011. From 2003 to 2007, he was the seventh
Lieutenant Governor of Maryland, the first African American elected to
statewide office in Maryland. During his time as Lieutenant Governor, he
chaired the Minority Business Enterprise taskforce, actively promoting an
expansion of affirmative action in the corporate world.
In 2006, Steele made
an unsuccessful run for the U.S. Senate, losing to Democrat Ben Cardin. He then
served as chairman of GOPAC, the political training organization of the
Republican party, was a political commentator for Fox News and a partner at the
law firm of LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae LLP before making his bid for
RNC Chairman. He co-founded the Republican Leadership Council, a "fiscally
conservative and socially inclusive" political action committee, in 1993.
On December 13, 2010, he announced his intentions to seek a second term as
Republican National Committee Chair. On January 14, 2011, after four rounds of
voting, Steele dropped out of the race and endorsed Maria Cino. Reince Priebus
went on to win the election to succeed Steele. He commenced as a columnist for
online magazine The Root in May 2011.
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