{"id":168,"date":"2018-02-24T19:47:48","date_gmt":"2018-02-25T00:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gopplaybook.com\/?p=168"},"modified":"2018-03-01T14:40:01","modified_gmt":"2018-03-01T19:40:01","slug":"racial-comments-lead-to-confrontation-at-cpac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gopplaybook.com\/?p=168","title":{"rendered":"A CPAC official said Michael Steele was hired to lead the RNC because he\u2019s black"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Former Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele had a few words on Friday for\u00a0Conservative Political Action Conference\u00a0<\/a>communications director Ian Walters,\u00a0who said that the RNC only picked Steele to lead the party because \u201che was a black guy.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI wanted to talk to [CPAC chair] Matt Schlapp first, but I think it\u2019s painfully stupid what he said,\u201d Steele told the\u00a0Observer<\/a>. \u201cIf he feels that way I\u2019d like him to come say that to my face. And then I\u2019d like him to look at my record and see what I did. I can\u2019t believe an official of CPAC would go on stage in front of an audience and say something like that. I\u2019ve been a strong supporter of CPAC for many years and I thought they raised them better than that here.\u201d<\/p>\n

Walters made the comments at CPAC\u2019s Ronald Reagan dinner held on Friday<\/p>\n

\u201cWe elected Mike Steele as chairman because he was a black guy; that was the wrong thing to do,\u201d Walters said.<\/p>\n

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Walters tweeted later in the evening that he apologized to Steele.<\/p>\n

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Steele, however, was not moved by Walters\u2019 apology.<\/p>\n

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