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Candidate to Head RNC Connected to Whites-Only Country Club

HeadlineNov 25, 2008

The website Talking Points Memo reports a candidate to become chair of the Republican National Committee was a longtime member of a white-only country club in South Carolina. Katon Dawson announced his candidacy for the RNC chair on Sunday. He is currently the South Carolina Republican chair. For twelve years, Dawson was a member of the Forest Lake Club. He resigned from the club in September after local media reports revealed that the country club’s deed had a whites-only restriction. The news come as the Republican Party struggles to attract African American supporters. At this year’s Republican National Convention, only thirty-six of the nearly 2,400 delegates were black, the lowest number in forty years.

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