Ken McKay, chief of staff to embattled Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele, has resigned after a tumultuous week that has seen the party embarrassed by a series of gaffes: A nearly $2,000 expenditure at a Los Angeles lesbian-bondage themed club; Steele’s hiring of a financial aide who’d been ordered in 2007 to repay nearly $70,000 to two D.C. baseball groups he had chaired; and the departure of a well-regarded top-level fundraiser from Texas.
RNC spokesman Doug Heye declined to say if McKay’s exit, first reported by Politico, was forced or voluntary. He said replacing McKay with deputy chief of staff Mike Leavitt was “about ensuring that we have the tight financial controls in place and to ensure that every nickel we spend is done with the goal of winning in November.”
Steele said in a statement that he chose Leavitt, a political operative who’d worked on campaigns in Maine, Virginia and his own failed U.S. Senate bid in Maryland, because “I want to do everything in my power to ensure that the committee uses all its resources in the best possible fashion.”
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