{"id":703920,"date":"2010-03-29T18:30:03","date_gmt":"2010-03-29T22:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=80837"},"modified":"2010-03-29T18:30:03","modified_gmt":"2010-03-29T22:30:03","slug":"steele-critic-on-voyeur-story-no-comment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/703920","title":{"rendered":"Steele Critic on Voyeur Story: No Comment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jonathan Martin <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/blogs\/bensmith\/0310\/A_familiar_pattern.html?showall\">writes that<\/a> the RNC Voyeur scandal isn&#8217;t likely to &#8220;change the political facts of life&#8221; keeping Steele in his job until he&#8217;s up for re-election in January 2011. I&#8217;m inclined to agree. If anyone would take a jab at Steele over this, it would be Indiana RNC committee member Jim Bopp, an attorney who&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/68701\/an-rnc-purity-test\">been responsible<\/a> for multiple party resolutions urging a tougher line against Democrats and more ideological tests inside the party &#8212; all of which has been watered down before passage. But when I reached Bopp, he took a pass on the story, declining to criticize the party apparatus or Steele.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All I know is what I&#8217;ve read in the papers,&#8221; said Bopp. &#8220;I&#8217;m not going to comment on that.&#8221;<span id=\"more-80837\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>From my conversations with people in and around the RNC, I do think stories like this render a second Steele chairmanship &#8212; which would take him through the 2012 presidential election &#8212; a bit less plausible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jonathan Martin writes that the RNC Voyeur scandal isn&#8217;t likely to &#8220;change the political facts of life&#8221; keeping Steele in his job until he&#8217;s up for re-election in January 2011. I&#8217;m inclined to agree. If anyone would take a jab at Steele over this, it would be Indiana RNC committee member Jim Bopp, an attorney [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2761,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-703920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2X7y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2761"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=703920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=703920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=703920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=703920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}