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Minnesota

Go ahead and blank this if you want, but any more edits like the one this account just made to Minnesota and you're going to be blocked for vandalism. AlexiusHoratius 18:20, 5 November 2010 (UTC)

You have been blocked from editing for a period of three days for vandalism. Once the block has expired, you are welcome to make useful contributions. If you would like to be unblocked, you may appeal this block by adding below this notice the text {{unblock|Your reason here}}, but you should read the guide to appealing blocks first. AlexiusHoratius 18:34, 5 November 2010 (UTC)

November 2010

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute to Wikipedia, at least one of your recent edits did not appear to be constructive and has been reverted or removed. Please use the sandbox for any test edits you would like to make, and read the welcome page to learn more about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. Thank you. Ak169808 (talk) 06:33, 22 November 2010 (UTC)

You have been blocked indefinitely from editing because your account is being used only for vandalism. If you would like to be unblocked, you may appeal this block by adding the text {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}} below this notice, but you should read the guide to appealing blocks first. Courcelles 06:41, 22 November 2010 (UTC)

{tlx|unblock|2=reason=I share my account. Please unblock me so I may change my password or create new account my little brother can not log on to~}}

This user's unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who declined the request. Other administrators may also review this block, but should not override the decision without good reason (see the blocking policy).

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Request reason:

This is a disgusting and outrageous attack on my First amendment rights, My little brother uses my account and makes phony edits as clearly seems I have made countless contributions creating pages for Damon Dunn, Tom Ganley, and The Politican. I can not change my password or account because you people make it impossible. Unlike facebook and twitter which are no longer vandilized by my brother. Sorry for the incipience, Ak169808 (talk) 23:26, 22 November 2010 (UTC)

Decline reason:

If you cannot keep your account secure then you cannot be unblocked. Stephen 23:51, 22 November 2010 (UTC)

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Request reason:

I have changed my password to secure my account. As I stated before I have made many constructive edits to Damon Dunn, added all the pictures to Ohio University and Benedictine High School, along with useful edits to pages I did not create such as Josh Mandel and Beachwood High Schooll Ak169808 (talk) 00:09, 23 November 2010 (UTC)

Decline reason:

Actually the "little brother defense" is used so often we have a whole page at WP:BROTHER deicated to why it is not an acceptable reason to unblock you. Also, there is no such thing as an absolute right to free speech on a privately owned website, so that argument is equally invalid. Beeblebrox (talk) 00:17, 23 November 2010 (UTC)

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Unblock request

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Request reason:

I am sorry for unconstructive edits I made that hurt the integrity of wikipedia. I made several pages over my time here Damon Dunn, Tom Ganley, The Politician (book), and added many pictures to Benedictine High School and Ohio University and contributed to many other articles. Please understand I know what I did was wrong and will not do it again. This will be my last unblock request, if you deny me I will simply move on. Remember the good times Ak169808 (talk) 03:30, 23 November 2010 (UTC)

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Procedural decline: You may make only one unblock request at a time. I will review the most recent request below.  Sandstein  06:32, 23 November 2010 (UTC)

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OK, I'll bite. What will you do if you're unblocked? Do you now concede that it wasn't your little brother who made the edits? HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 03:41, 23 November 2010 (UTC)

I will no longer make unconstructive edits such as adding myself and my friends as notable alumini to our high schools. Although I did make many of my hurtful edits in the company of friends, I understand that the responsibility falls on myself alone for making these mistakes. I pledge to only make useful edits to wikipedia, well sourced, cited, and formated. I will no longer engage in tomfoolery and will work hard to treat this encyclopedia with the respect it deserves.--Ak169808 (talk) 03:49, 23 November 2010 (UTC) I also would like to add that in fact, some of those edits were made by my little brother, although most were done by me. He did routinely vandalize my facebook account. I apologize for once again all edits made from this account. I ask for forgiveness and the chance to redeem myself in eyes of of Wikipedia users. Thanks for your time and consideration of my unblock --Ak169808 (talk) 03:55, 23 November 2010 (UTC)

This user's unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who declined the request. Other administrators may also review this block, but should not override the decision without good reason (see the blocking policy).

Ak169808 (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

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Request reason:

I will no longer make unconstructive edits such as adding myself and my friends as notable alumini to our high schools. Although I did make many of my hurtful edits in the company of friends, I understand that the responsibility falls on myself alone for making these mistakes. I pledge to only make useful edits to wikipedia, well sourced, cited, and formated. I will no longer engage in tomfoolery and will work hard to treat this encyclopedia with the respect it deserves.--Ak169808 (talk) 03:49, 23 November 2010 (UTC) I also would like to add that in fact, some of those edits were made by my little brother, although most were done by me. He did routinely vandalize my facebook account. I apologize for once again all edits made from this account. I ask for forgiveness and the chance to redeem myself in eyes of of Wikipedia users. Thanks for your time and consideration of my unblock]]

Decline reason:

Please follow the "second chance" instructions below and make one last unblock request. Your proposed contribution should be rather good: you should add several well-written and well-referenced paragraphs to an article.  Sandstein  06:38, 23 November 2010 (UTC)

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I will no longer make unconstructive edits such as adding myself and my friends as notable alumini to our high schools. Although I did make many of my hurtful edits in the company of friends, I understand that the responsibility falls on myself alone for making these mistakes. I pledge to only make useful edits to wikipedia, well sourced, cited, and formated. I will no longer engage in tomfoolery and will work hard to treat this encyclopedia with the respect it deserves.--Ak169808 (talk) 03:49, 23 November 2010 (UTC) I also would like to add that in fact, some of those edits were made by my little brother, although most were done by me. He did routinely vandalize my facebook account. I apologize for once again all edits made from this account. I ask for forgiveness and the chance to redeem myself in eyes of of Wikipedia users. Thanks for your time and consideration of my unblock]]

Note: Contrary to the instructions on the unblock request template, you have removed several declined unblock requests from this page. This makes it unnecessarily difficult for us to correctly review your block. I have therefore restored the previous content of your talk page. Do not remove the declined unblock requests again.  Sandstein  06:31, 23 November 2010 (UTC)

Second chance

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This user's unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who declined the request. Other administrators may also review this block, but should not override the decision without good reason (see the blocking policy).

Ak169808 (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

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Request reason:

If unblocked I will change political articles on candidates and in put race results in each respective races for 2010 updating the pages. This is my last unblock request I am moving in two weeks and will make a new account from my next ip address to get rid of this hassle. I already apologized. I was sincere. I no longer want to make unconstructive edits because I find them humorous. I made many many edits in good articles. I blinged out my high school Benedictine High School in Cleveland with pictures. I will make more edits like this if I am unblocked. If not as I said before I will just make a new account after I move. You don't have to unblockly, frankly I really don't care. I just want to help updating this encyclopedia at this point. Please unblock me. I am sorry.

Decline reason:

I can't find your 'second chance' article work on this talk page as described above- there's nothing for me to review here. FisherQueen (talk · contribs) 23:47, 23 November 2010 (UTC)

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Seal of the RNC

The Republican National Committee (RNC) provides national leadership for the Republican Party of the United States. It is responsible for developing and promoting the Republican political platform, as well as coordinating fundraising and election strategy. It is also responsible for organizing and running the Republican National Convention. Similar committees exist in every U.S. state and most U.S. counties, although in some states party organization is structured by congressional district, allied campaign organizations being governed by a national committee. Michael Steele is the current RNC chairman, and will serve until January 2011.

The RNC's main counterpart is the Democratic National Committee.

History

The 1856 Republican National Convention appointed the first RNC. It consisted of one member from each state and territory to serve for four years. Each national convention since then has followed the precedent of one representative per state or territory, regardless of population. From 1924 to 1952 there was a national committeeman and national committeewoman from each state and U.S. possession, and from Washington, D.C.. In 1952, committee membership was expanded to include the state party chairs of states that voted Republican in the preceding presidential election, have a Republican majority in their combined U.S. representatives and senators, or have Republican governors. By 1968, membership reached 145.

The only person to have chaired the RNC and later become U.S. president is George H.W. Bush. A number of the chairs of the RNC have been state governors.

2009 RNC Chairman Selection

RNC Chairman Vote

Source: CQPolitics, and Poll Pundit.

Candidate rep	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6
Michael Steele	46	48	51	60	79	91
Katon Dawson	28	29	34	62	69	77
Saul Anuzis	22	24	24	31	20	Withdrew
Ken Blackwell	20	19	15	15	Withdrew
Mike Duncan	52	48	44	Withdrew

  Candidate won that Round of voting

  Candidate withdrew

  Candidate won RNC Chairmanship

On announcing his candidacy to succeed RNC Chairman Duncan, former Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael Steele described the party as being at a crossroads and not knowing what to do. "I think I may have some keys to open the door, some juice to turn on the lights," he said.

Six men ran for the 2009 RNC Chairmanship: Steele, Ken Blackwell, Mike Duncan, Saul Anuzis, Katon Dawson and Chip Saltsman. After Saltsman's withdrawal, there were only five candidates during the hotly-contested balloting January 30, 2009.

After the third round of balloting that day, Steele held a small lead over incumbent Mike Duncan of Kentucky, with 51 votes to Duncan's 44. Shortly after the announcement of the standings, Duncan dropped out of contention without endorsing a candidate. Ken Blackwell, the only other African-American candidate, dropped out after the fourth ballot and endorsed Steele, though Blackwell had been the most socially conservative of the candidates and Steele had been accused of not being "sufficiently conservative." Steele picked up Blackwell's votes. After the fifth round, Steele held a ten vote lead over Katon Dawson, with 79 votes, and Saul Anuzis dropped out. After the sixth vote, he won the chairmanship of the RNC over Dawson by a vote of 91 to 77.

Mississippi Governor and former RNC chair Haley Barbour has suggested the party will focus its efforts on congressional and gubernatorial elections in the coming years rather than the next presidential election. "When I was chairman of the Republican National Committee the last time we lost the White House in 1992 we focused exclusively on 1993 and 1994. And at the end of that time, we had both houses of Congress with Republican majorities, and we’d gone from 17 Republican governors to 31. So anyone talking about 2012 today doesn’t have their eye on the ball. What we ought to worry about is rebuilding our party over the next year and particularly in 2010,” Barbour said at the November 2008 Republican Governors conference.

Chairmen of the Republican National Committee

#	Chairman	Term	State	Notes
1	Edwin D. Morgan	1856–1864	New York
2	Henry J. Raymond	1864–1866	New York
3	Marcus L. Ward	1866–1868	New Jersey
4	William Claflin	1868–1872	Massachusetts
5	Edwin D. Morgan	1872–1876	New York	Second term
6	Zachariah Chandler	1876–1879	Michigan
7	J. Donald Cameron	1879–1880	Pennsylvania
8	Marshall Jewell	1880–1883	Connecticut
9	Dwight M. Sabin	1883–1884	Minnesota
10	B. F. Jones	1884–1888	New Jersey
11	Matthew S. Quay	1888–1891	Pennsylvania
12	James S. Clarkson	1891–1892	Iowa
13	William J. Campbell	1892	Illinois	Elected June 1892, Declined July 1892 (Lt Governor of IL)
14	Thomas H. Carter	1892–1896	Montana	Elected in place of W.J. Campbell in July 1892
15	Marcus A. Hanna	1896–1904	Ohio
16	Henry Clay Payne	1904	Wisconsin
17	George Bruce Cortelyou	1904–1907	New York
18	Harry S. New	1907–1908	Indiana
19	Frank Harris Hitchcock	1908–1909	Ohio
20	John Fremont Hill	1909–1912	Maine
21	Victor Rosewater	1912	Nebraska
22	Charles D. Hilles	1912–1916	New York
23	William R. Willcox	1916–1918	New York
24	Will H. Hays	1918–1921	Indiana
25	John T. Adams	1921–1924	Iowa
26	William M. Butler	1924–1928	Massachusetts
27	Hubert Work	1928–1929	Colorado
28	Claudius H. Huston	1929–1930	Tennessee	first Southerner to be elected chairman
29	Simeon D. Fess	1930-1932	Ohio
30	Everett Sanders	1932–1934	Indiana
31	Henry P. Fletcher	1934–1936	Pennsylvania
32	John D. M. Hamilton	1936–1940	Kansas
33	Joseph W. Martin, Jr.	1940–1942	Massachusetts
34	Harrison E. Spangler	1942–1944	Iowa
35	Herbert Brownell, Jr.	1944–1946	New York
36	Carroll Reece	1946–1948	Tennessee
37	Hugh D. Scott, Jr.	1948–1949	Pennsylvania
38	Guy G. Gabrielson	1949–1952	New Jersey
39	Arthur E. Summerfield	1952–1953	Michigan
40	Wesley Roberts	1953	Kansas
41	Leonard W. Hall	1953–1957	New York
42	Meade Alcorn	1957–1959	Connecticut
43	Thruston B. Morton	1959–1961	Kentucky
44	William E. Miller	1961–1964	New York
45	Dean Burch	1964–1965	Arizona
46	Ray C. Bliss	1965–1969	Ohio
47	Rogers C. B. Morton	1969–1971	Maryland
48	Robert Dole	1971–1973	Kansas
49	George H. W. Bush	1973–1974	Texas
50	Mary Louise Smith	1974–1977	Iowa	first woman to become RNC chair
51	William E. Brock III	1977–1981	Tennessee
52	Richard Richards	1981–1983	Utah
53	Frank J. Fahrenkopf, Jr.	1983–1989	Nevada	Paul Laxalt served with Fahrenkopf as general chairman until 1987.
54	Lee Atwater	1989–1991	South Carolina
55	Clayton Keith Yeutter	1991–1992	Nebraska
56	Richard Bond	1992–1993	Missouri
57	Haley Barbour	1993–1997	Mississippi
58	Jim Nicholson	1997–2001	Colorado
59	Jim Gilmore	2001–2002	Virginia
60	Marc Racicot	2002–2003	Montana
61	Ed Gillespie	2003–2005	Virginia
62	Ken Mehlman	2005–2007	Washington, D.C.	stepped down at end of 2006
63	Mike Duncan	2007–2009	Kentucky	Senator Mel Martinez served with Duncan as general chairman before stepping down in October 2007.
63	Mel Martinez	2007	Florida	Served with Mike Duncan as general chairman.
64	Michael Steele	2009–present	Maryland	First African American Chairman.

2009 RNC Health Coverage-Abortion Controversy

On November 12, 2009, the Republican National Committee was involved in a controversy over its opposition to funding for abortion in government sponsored health plans. After strong support for the Stupak Amendment – which prohibited any coverage of abortion services under government-subsidized or government-operated health insurance plans operating under the terms of the Affordable Health Care for America Act, regardless of whether that coverage was itself funded by the government – it became known that the employer-based health care provided to members of the RNC provides coverage for elective abortions. Republican leaders stated they did not realize this coverage was within the health care terms, and promised to promptly remove such coverage. It has been noted that this coverage is not precisely in contradiction with the intention of the Stupak amendment because the health coverage for RNC members is private insurance, not publicly funded.

See also

• Republican Party (United States)
• Republican National Committee members
• Microtargeting
• Right Now: A 12-Step Program for Defeating the Obama Agenda
• Rob Bickhart

External links

• Official website
• Republican National Committee: News clippings and publications, 1932-65, Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library

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This user's unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who declined the request. Other administrators may also review this block, but should not override the decision without good reason (see the blocking policy).

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Request reason:

I will edit the above article. If you don't want to unblock me you can all go fuck yourselves.

Decline reason:

If you really can't guess... - Vianello (Talk) 00:14, 24 November 2010 (UTC)

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