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Michael Steele (born Susan Thomas [1] on June 2, 1955) is an American retired musician, best known as the bassist for The Bangles. Under the name Micki Steele, she was a founding member of The Runaways but left in 1975, shortly before the band's major label debut.
Susan Michael Steele est une musicienne américaine née le 2 juin 1955 à Pasadena (Californie). Membre du groupe The Runaways dans les années 1970, elle remplaça Annette Zilinskas en tant que bassiste du groupe The Bangles en 1983.
- Early Life and Education
- Political Development
- Lieutenant Governor of Maryland
- 2006 Campaign For U.S. Senate
- After The Senate Race
- RNC Chairman
- After The Chairmanship
- Political Positions
- Right Now
- Honors and Awards
Steele was born on October 19, 1958, at Andrews Air Force Base in Prince George's County, Maryland, and was adopted as an infant by William and Maebell Steele. His father died in 1962. His mother, who had been born into a sharecropping family in South Carolina, worked for minimum wage as a laundress to raise her children. After Steele's father died...
After joining the Republican Party, he became chairman of the Prince George's County Republican Central Committee. He was a founding member of the centrist, fiscally conservative and socially inclusive Republican Leadership Council in 1993 but left in 2008, citing disagreements over endorsing primary candidates. In 1995, the Maryland Republican Par...
In 2002, Robert Ehrlich, who was running for Maryland governor, selected Steele as his running mate for lieutenant governor. The campaign was waged against Democrat Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, who was running for governor, and Charles R. Larsonwho was running for lieutenant governor. In the September primary election, Ehrlich and Steele had no serio...
When Paul Sarbanes, Maryland's longest-serving United States Senator, announced in March 2005 that he would not be a candidate for re-election in 2006, top state and national Republican officials began pressing Steele to become their party's nominee for the seat. In April 2005, The Baltimore Sun announced the results of a poll it conducted, stating...
One day after Steele conceded defeat in the senate election, Chris Cillizza of The Washington Post reported that Steele was hoping to succeed Ken Mehlman as the chairman of the Republican National Committee. Senator Mel Martinezof Florida, who had the endorsement of President George W. Bush, got the position. In February 2007, Steele became chairma...
2009 election
On November 24, 2008, Steele kicked off his campaign for the RNC chairmanship by launching his website. On January 30, 2009, Steele won the chairmanship of the RNC in the sixth round, with 91 votes to Katon Dawson's 77. Steele, the RNC's first African American chairman, was selected in the aftermath of President Obama's election; many in the GOP saw him as a charismatic counter to the nation's first Black president. Source: CQPoliticsand Poll Pundit 1. Candidate won that Round of voting 2. Ca...
Leadership dispute with Rush Limbaugh
On March 1, 2009, in response to a question on CBS's Face the Nation as to who spoke for the Republican Party, White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel opined that Rush Limbaughspoke for the Party; Emanuel asserted that "whenever a Republican criticizes [Limbaugh], they have to run back and apologize to him, and say they were misunderstood. He is the voice and the intellectual force and energy behind the Republican Party. And he has been upfront about what he views, and hasn't stepped back fro...
Fire Pelosi Bus Tour
In the fall of 2010, Steele launched the "Fire Pelosi Bus Tour", with the goal of "firing" Speaker Pelosi from her position as Speaker of the House of Representatives by re-establishing a Republican majority in the United States House of Representatives. The tour began on September 15 and lasted six weeks, visiting 48 states in the Continental U.S. and more than 100 cities while covering 14,000 miles. The Tour's purpose was to "encourage votes for Republicans in districts across the nation"....
After his loss in the chairmanship election, Steele was hired by MSNBC to be a regular political analyst as of May 2011. He also was hired to be a columnist for the online magazine The Root, an African-American news and commentary site owned by The Washington Post Company. On C-SPAN's Washington Journalon the Sunday after the 2012 Obama reelection ...
Economic views
As Lieutenant Governor of Maryland, Steele chaired the Governor's Commission on Minority Business Enterprise Reform. Steele criticized the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009(stimulus bill).
Environment and energy
Steele rejects the scientific consensus on climate change, claiming in 2009 that the Earth is "cooling" rather than "the supposed warming".
Opposition to President Donald Trump
Steele was openly critical of Donald Trump during his 2016 presidential campaign and has continued to oppose President Trump during his subsequent administration. In a January 2018 interview on MSNBC, in response to an accusation that President Trump had referred to El Salvador and Haiti as "shithole countries", Steele expressed his belief that the President was "racist".Steele reiterated his frustration with Trump and his supporters during the COVID-19 pandemic by saying "I've talked to enou...
Steele's book, Right Now: A 12-Step Program for Defeating the Obama Agenda, was released on January 4, 2010; it was published by Regnery Publishing, ISBN 978-1-59698-108-9. The Associated Press reported that, "Steele focuses much of the book on familiar GOP denunciations of President Barack Obama's overall policies ('a roadmap to failure'), the $78...
Michael Steele has been awarded honors and awards in recognition of his political career. These include: 1. 2003 Honorary degree of Doctor of Laws (LL.D) from Morgan State University
Michael Stephen Steele, né le 19 octobre 1958 sur la base aérienne d'Andrews dans le Maryland, est un avocat et homme politique américain, président du Comité national républicain entre le 30 janvier 2009 et le 14 janvier 2011. Il est le premier Afro-Américain à accéder à cette fonction.
Michael Steele is the former chairman of the Republican National Committee and a political analyst for MSNBC. Follow him on Twitter to get his insights on current events, politics, and culture. He tweets frequently and engages with his followers and other influencers.
The official channel of MSNBC Political Analyst Michael Steele. Michael was formerly the chairman of the Republican National Committee and Lieutenant Governor of Maryland.
My tribute video to the "Bohemian Bangle" herself, the one and only Michael Steele.
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