Log Cabins at issue in RNC chair race

[Shana A]

January 28, 2009
Categories: RNC Chair
Log Cabins at issue in RNC chair race

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0109/Anuzis_on_both_sides_of_Gay_GOPers.html

I noted earlier today that one of the candidates for chairman of the Republican National Committee, Saul Anuzis, had circulated news of gay support for one of his rivals, Michael Steele, to a prominent social conservative.

But soon after Anuzis used a gay Republican group's praise to tar Steele, an Anuzis aide pitched Anuzis to the group as a tolerant moderate, according to an email exchange I obtained this afternoon.

Last November Anuzis forwarded an email praising Steele from the Log Cabin Republicans, the gay GOP group, to James Bopp, Jr., a prominent social conservative and RNC member, under the heading, "You probably saw this..." Bopp then included the email in a packet of documents apparently intended to cast Steele as too "moderate" for the chairmanship.