Michael Steele

Did Steele Give Tea Partiers False Assurances On Coats Race?

Zachary Roth | February 17, 2010, 10:25AM

RNC Chair Michael Steele

Did Michael Steele pull the wool over the eyes of the Tea Partiers he met with last night? Or is the RNC chair just not so up on what his party's doing? Or was there just a big misunderstanding?

An Indiana Tea Partier, Greg Fettig, said he asked Steele whether national Republicans had recruited Dan Coats into the GOP Senate race, CNN reports. There were already several Republican candidates before Coats entered the race, and Fettig said Tea Party activists in the state are "adamantly against" Coats, a former senator who now works as a Washington lobbyist.

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