Steele's Foreign Outreach Effort Angers GOP Leaders

In a bizarre strategy with key midterm elections just three months away, the Republican National Committee is trying to set up meetings between Chairman Michael Steele and foreign ambassadors to the United States – a use of time and money that is exasperating senior Republicans.

An RNC intern sent a message late last month to at least one ambassador on behalf of Neil Alpert, a senior finance aide, according to Politico.

Steele’s outreach to foreign representatives heading into the final stretch of the mid-term election cycle is angering GOP stalwarts already fed up with the controversial chairman’s knack for bad publicity.

“They can’t give any money and they can’t vote,” former RNC Chairman Jim Nicholson told Politico. “I don’t know why you’d take time to do it.”

It is illegal for foreign nationals to contribute to American candidates or political parties.

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