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[Ya-ta Boy]

In a 470-415 vote on Saturday, Audra Shay won the Young Republican chairmanship. Maybe she's the new young leader the GOP has been waiting for.

"Some highlights:

Shay�s opponent, Rachel Hoff, was the subject of an ugly sexual innuendo whisper campaign that questioned her reasons for supporting civil unions.

Shay�s electoral slate, dubbed Team Renewal, battled desperately�some likened it to intimidation�and, ultimately, successfully to block a motion that would have allowed delegates to cast their votes by secret ballot, for fear they�d lose.

Near-fistfights on the floor, and finally something of a boycott, as some of Hoff�s slate of candidates lower on the ticket chose to remove their names from the ballot after her defeat."

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-07-12/bullying-behind-gop-racist-win-5?cid=hp:mainpromo3

Meghen McCain is also unimpressed:
"What exactly do the Young Republicans expect to achieve by electing a 38-year-old woman who thinks racial epithets are acceptable?"
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-07-10/do-not-elect-a-racist/

I don't know who Michael Rowe is, but he was not happy either:
"When two of her other friends--including Sean L. Conner, chairman of the D.C. Young Republicans--complained about the racist language on Shay's Facebook thread, Shay responded, not by unfriending the author of the "mad coon" comment, but by unfriending the two who complained."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-rowe/the-new-ice-age-of-the-yo_b_230125.html

Audra Shay looks like she is shaping up to be a nice partner for Michael Steele, if he'll share his spotlight with her. Like many of you, I am tired of the PC police. I think if Audra Shay herself wants to call Obama a coon in public, it would be fine with me. She can call Sotomayor a wetback greaser, too, if she wants to. On national TV--all the better.

Why should slightly more than half the GOP delegates at this convention--rising leaders of one of our two main parties--censor themselves? Call it 'truth in advertising'.

[RufusW]

To be fair, 38 probably is young for a Republican. I lol'd.