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GOP Hopeful Belonged to Whites-Only Country Club

Katon Dawson, candidate for RNC chair, resigned from SC club this summer

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(Newser) – One of the candidates for chairman of the Republican National Committee belonged for more than a decade to a whites-only country club, Greg Sargent notes on Talking Points Memo. Katon Dawson, chairman of South Carolina’s Republican Party, resigned from the club in September as he was preparing to run for the national leadership, saying he’d been working against the no-blacks rule.

The State of Columbia, SC, reported in September that Dawson ended his 12-year membership at the Forest Lake Club—“where,” Sargent notes, “the first African American president in history apparently need not apply”—only when he discovered the newspaper was planning to break the news.

Katon Dawson is currently South Carolina's GOP chairman.
Katon Dawson is currently South Carolina's GOP chairman.   (AP Photo)
Katon Dawson, left, belonged to a whites-only country club for 12 years.
Katon Dawson, left, belonged to a whites-only country club for 12 years.   (AP Photo)
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John
Nov 25, 08 3:16 PM CST
So his membership 60 years ago makes Dawson's membership in 2008 OK? Maybe you need to move to Alaska with your girlfriend.
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John
Nov 25, 08 3:22 PM CST
Do you mean govern like the past 8 years?
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Garibaldi
Nov 25, 08 3:42 PM CST
*glug, glug, glug* Is your glass half full or half empty? Raspberry, strawberry, lemon-lime? Didn't Pinhead claim a "mandate" in 2000 & 2004? And the "Contract with America?" How about Reagan's outrageous tax increases and deficits? The "Laffer Curve?" Iran-Contra? Ollie North? The Bimbo who stuffed her bra with government paperwork? What a maroon....
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Nov 25, 08 2:39 PM CST
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John
Nov 25, 08 3:14 PM CST
The issue is that Byrd's membership was repulsive 60 years ago, but we are in the year 2008!!!
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