Trustee Robert L. Traynham, II
Robert Traynham is currently Deputy Chief of Staff and Director of Communications for the Senate Republican Conference, where he serves Conference Chairman, U.S. Senator Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania, in his leadership office. In this capacity, Mr. Traynham is responsible for developing and implementing communication strategies, and for overseeing press-related activities on behalf of all Republicans in the U.S. Senate. He also served as President of the United States Senate Press Secretaries Association.
Before his current appointment, Mr. Traynham held dual posts for Senator Santorum, both as Press Secretary for the Senator's 2000 re-election campaign in Pennsylvania, and for his Senatorial office at the U.S. Capitol in Washington. Robert Traynham has worked for Senator Santorum since January 1997, having served him previously as Deputy Press Secretary and Press Assistant. Prior to working in the U.S. Senate, Mr. Traynham served as Political Director for Black America's Political Action Committee (BAMPAC), an organization whose mission is electing black conservatives to national office.
Before accepting his post at BAMPAC, Mr. Traynham served as a Special Assistant for the 1996 Republican National Convention, held in San Diego, California, where he provided support with press-related matters and overall logistics. Before the convention, Mr. Traynham had worked for the Republican National Committee (RNC) as Special Assistant to the Director of Information Services where he conducted opinion-polling efforts, issued public comments for the party chairman, and compiled briefings for GOP party members and the public. He also assisted with press-related matters, including drafting national press releases on behalf of the party.
Mr. Traynham was introduced to public service in Washington by working for A Presidential Classroom for Young Americans , a program founded by President Kennedy. At the age of eighteen, Mr. Traynham served as an intern at the White House, and soon became the youngest staff member ever to work full-time at the White House. He then received an appointment to work at the Capitol for a U.S. Representative in Congress following his internship. As a student, Traynham also worked as an Assistant to the Director of Minority Affairs at Thomas Jefferson University, during which he founded an internship program and helped to forge a dual-degree program between the university and two historically black colleges in Pennsylvania, including at his alma mater , Cheyney University of Pennsylvania.
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http://www.cheyney.edu/pages/?p=213The New Wave, Part 3
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Devlin is suing the city of Philadelphia in hopes of sacking domestic partnership benefits that became law in May 1998. The gay community is in no position to criticize his lawsuit, Devlin maintains, because if domestic partnership bills had failed to pass, Park and Pennsylvania ACLU director Larry Frankel (another openly gay man) would have been in court faster than anyone could mutter "bigot."
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"Their political agenda is very selfish. When they meet with a politician, it is only on their issues," he contends. "Where are they on issues important to people living in North Philadelphia, child immunizations or gambling? Any issue that affects someone other than the homosexual community, they’re not interested."
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Santorum spokesperson Robert Traynham admits that the impending warfare over his boss’ seat could get bloody. But he insists the senator is not particularly concerned about the wrath of gay voters.
"This is a very important race and one we will monitor closely. But in this context, the senator doesn’t classify individuals in terms of their sexual orientation," Traynham says. "As a policy, the senator believes individuals in that area are his constituents, and he takes their concerns into consideration when a piece of legislation comes up on the Senate floor."
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http://citypaper.net/articles/021000/cov.newwave3.shtmlTwo Republicans criticize Santorum for remarks about gays
Conservative group faults GOP for 'timid' support of senator
By Sean Loughlin
CNN Washington Bureau
Thursday, April 24, 2003 Posted: 6:33 PM EDT (2233 GMT)
Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pennsylvania, defends his position at a town hall meeting Wednesday.
CNN's Jonathan Karl reports (April 22)
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Critical comments about homosexuality by a leading Senate Republican were labeled as "unfortunate" by two GOP colleagues, who said they don't represent the ideals held by many in their party.
Santorum has stood by his comments. He has both defended them as an accurate reflection on the law as it relates to homosexual activity and also complained that they had been taken out of context in the AP story.(Full story)
Challenged about his comments Wednesday at a town hall meeting in Pennsylvania by a man who identified himself as gay, Santorum said he respected the man's opinion, but he stood his ground.
"Obviously, I can't represent everybody's viewpoint," Santorum said.
A spokesman for Santorum expressed optimism Thursday that the controversy would soon go away.
"This story is kind of dying down," said Robert Traynham. "There is really nothing new to report." More:
http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/04/24/santorum.gays/Daschle Possibly Praises Dodd
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"The last time I looked the Civil War was about ending slavery, and when is it a good time for a former Ku Klux Klan member to be a leader during such difficult times?" said Robert Traynham, who emphasized he was speaking personally, and not for his boss, Republican Senate Conference Chairman Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania. "Where is the outrage from those very same individuals and organizations that express their outrage when Republicans make statements that they interpret to be discriminatory?"
Mr. Dodd was among the Democrats who called for Mr. Lott to lose his leadership post and said his party would deal with such comments differently.
"If Tom Daschle or another Democratic leader were to have made similar statements, the reaction would have been very swift," he said on CNN's "Late Edition" on Dec. 15, 2002. "I don't think several hours would have gone by without there being an almost unanimous call for the leader to step aside."
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http://devclue.com/blog/politics/usa/legislativeWednesday, July 13, 2005 2:23 p.m. EDT
Kennedy Piles On Santorum for Writings
In a rare personal attack on the Senate floor, Massachusetts Sen. Edward M. Kennedy accused Sen. Rick Santorum on Wednesday of being self-righteous and insensitive for a column he wrote three years ago linking Boston's liberalism to the sex abuse scandal in its Catholic diocese.
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"The people of Boston are to blame for the clergy sexual abuse? That is an irresponsible, insensitive and inexcusable thing to say," said Kennedy.
Robert Traynham, a spokesman for Santorum, said his boss recognizes that the church abuse scandal was not just in Boston, but all over the country.Throughout the United States, sexual abuse by priests has cost the Catholic Church more than $1 billion. The Archdiocese of Philadelphia has said that its records show 44 priests have been "credibly" accused of molesting minors since the 1950s.
Traynham said Santorum "was speaking to a broader cultural argument about the need for everyone to take these issues very, very seriously."The scandal began in Boston in early 2002 when internal church files released under court order revealed abusive priests were transferred from parish to parish rather than removed from the ministry. Cardinal Bernard Law resigned as archbishop later that year amid criticism over his handling of the crisis.
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http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover.shtmlWednesday, October 27, 2004
Why The Wolves Cry Wolf
http://www.whyareweback.blogspot.com/<snip>
A few weeks ago The Drudge Report (google it...I'm not going to provide a link to that asshole) reported that the Democrats were launching a pre-emptive strike to combat alleged Republican voter fraud and intimidation. The right wing blogs have been having a field day with this one, and so have the newspaper/television affiliates of the Fox empire.
On October 14th, RNC Senior Advisor Robert Traynham conducted a Voter Intimidation Call with Texas Railroad Commissioner Michael Williams (both African Americans, by the way). Commissioner Williams' had this to say: "As I look at this 66 page guide and look on, I think it's page 54, it actually says in plain English, that if no signs of intimidation techniques have emerged yet, launch a pre-emptive strike. What that means in clear language is, if there is no evidence of intimidation, which we don't expect there will be, because we're not going to engage in it, then make it up and talk about it anyway."
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Mr. Traynham appears to be the point man in charge of crying wolf. On October 22nd he issued this statementhttp://www.rnc.org/news/read.aspx?ID=4964 about this story on the front page of The New York Times entitled "Big G.O.P. Bid to Challenge Voters at Polls in Key State":
http://whyareweback.blogspot.com/2004/10/do-kkkers-earn-100-bucks-gig.html"The Ohio Republican Party is taking every precaution to protect and defend the voters of Ohio from having fraud perpetrated on their election system. Every voter should have a guarantee that their vote will not be negated by outside groups’ intent on causing chaos at the polls and fostering an environment that allows fraudulent votes to be counted equally as valid ones."
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http://progressivealliance.blogspot.com/2004_10_01_progressivealliance_archive.htmlRepublican National Committee
October 11, 2004
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Robert Traynham 202-863-8614WASHINGTON, DC - Former Congressman J.C. Watts today called on the Democratic National Committee campaign to retract a misleading television advertisement that questions President Bush’s commitment to African Americans and also questioned the accusations the DNC made this afternoon in a conference call to news media. “Instead of discussing the significant strides that our country has seen in regards to race, Democrats choose to falsely claim that African Americans have not benefited from President Bush’s policies. “Nothing could be further from the truth. Under President Bush’s leadership, minority home ownership is at record levels,...
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http://www.rnc.org/News/Read.aspx?ID=4847Thursday, April 07, 2005
Well Well Well
Yesterday, I wondered aloud about comments made in the Washington Times regarding the "Schiavo Memo." Seems that I was right to look closely at the statements made by Robert Traynham, spokesman for Republican Conference Chairman Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania. I noted that his denial involved a very interesting parsing of the levels of staff who were not involved.
Turns out that a senior staffer for Senator Mel Martinez, an attorney no less, drafted the "Schiavo Memo" and that Mel himself "unbeknownst to me" had handed it out to Tom Harkin, Democratic senator from Iowa.
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http://ironmouth.com/PermaLink.aspx?guid=2a66ceb2-35f3-4a0c-9557-a1d52dd4125cStatement From RNC Senior Advisor on Civil Rights Groups False Allegations
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Press Office
(202) 863-8614
Washington, DC-RNC Senior Advisor Robert Traynham made the following statement today:
“Under President Bush’s leadership and with the assistance of the RNC, we are proud of our historic effort in registering 3.4 million new voters in diverse areas such as Philadelphia, Miami, Cleveland and in rural areas all across the United States.
“Today we are seeing these left leaning groups follow the instructions on page 51 of the 66 page Kerry-Edwards/DNC voting manual which instructs Democrat operatives to allege intimidation when none exists.
“This press conference today comes to no surprise as these left leaning groups follow the detailed instructions of their minority intimidation playbook to launch ‘pre-emptive strikes’ and to spread falsehoods even when the facts tell a different story.”
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http://www.gop.com/news/read.aspx?ID=5007
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