Katon Dawson, the former South Carolina GOP chairman who narrowly lost the Republican National Committee chairmanship to Michael Steele in January 2009, is now calling for Steele to be fired as RNC chairman in the wake of his comments seemingly opposing the Afghanistan war.
“The RNC should do the responsible thing and show Steele the door,” Dawson told CNN. “Enough is enough.”
Dawson has often criticized Steele’s many gaffes in the year and a half since he became chairman — and many of Steele’s critics were also former Dawson supporters. But this is the first time that Dawson is officially calling for Steele’s ouster. Dawson is recommending a third person for the job, Mississippi RNC member Henry Barbour, the nephew of Gov. Haley Barbour who is currently heading up the Republican Governors Association: “Henry Barbour would be a great choice and a fine operative to run the RNC and finish the midterms in the manner required to secure the success our candidates deserve.”
Late Update: This post originally mistakenly said that Dawson was recommending Haley Barbour for the RNC chairmanship, not Henry Barbour.
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