http://dailycaller.com/2010/03/31/big-donors-shun-steeles-rnc-redirecting-thousands-to-nrsc-and-nrcc/?om_rid=Dcz8r1&om_mid=_BLsz8jB8Gv7MD2By Gautham Nagesh & Aleksandra Kulczuga - The Daily Caller | Published: 03/31/10 at 1:29 AM | Updated: 03/31/10 at 6:22 PM
Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele has had no trouble attracting media coverage, but holding onto the party’s biggest donors has been more difficult.
Since Steele became chairman in January 2009, a growing number of prominent GOP donors has stopped contributing to the RNC, choosing instead to direct their money to outlets such as the party’s Senatorial Committee.
“There are a whole lot of troubling things going on, and it’s something that gets talked about with some frequency,” said a major Republican donor who spoke on condition of anonymity. “These are people who are longtime, loyal donors — serious, successful people — and to be in the front page of newspapers because someone put a chit in for going to a sex club, it’s just