April 2016
by Carolyn L. McLarty, DVM Republican National Committeewoman for Oklahoma
REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE
SPRING MEETING 2016 REPORT
The Republican National Committee (RNC) Spring Meeting 2016 was held Wednesday, April 13th through Saturday, April 16th, at the Diplomat Resort, Hollywood, Florida. Florida Republican National Committeewoman and RNC Co-Chair Sharon Day and Florida Republican National Committeeman Peter Feaman were gracious hosts of this RNC Spring Meeting in their home State.
RNC CONSERVATIVE STEERING COMMITTEE
The RNC Conservative Steering Committee (CSC) is composed one hundred (100) social, fiscal, and defense conservative RNC members. With guests, seventy-two (72) people met for breakfast on Wednesday morning.
Ellen Barrosse (NCW DE) is Chairman and Melody Potter (NCW WV) is Vice- Chairman of the CSC. Ellen organized this breakfast meeting, which included three (3) guest speakers.
The first speaker was Reince Priebus, Chairman of the RNC. Chairman Priebus talked about party unity, and stressed that unity makes the impossible possible. Further, He said the media pushes for division because division is profit for them. He said a candidate must get a majority to win the nomination and remembered that his own election for RNC Chair took seven (7) ballots before he received the eighty-five (85) votes to win the majority.