that is maria cino. i am honored to second her nomination. [applause] >> madam chairman, at cox, chairman of the new york state party. in 1996 she raised $100 million and successfully defended our new majority of the house of representatives. in 2000, she ran a successful operation that elected a republican challenger into the white house, and in 2004, she ran the political operation that devised and implemented the most successful victory operations in the history of this national party. in 20 to 08, she ran a great convention. it is my great honor to second the nomination of maria cino from gritty buffalo to be the next chairman of all our republican party. see why. >> madame chairwoman, i am honored to second the nomination of maria cino. if it is time to elect a chairman who will restore credibility to the republican national committee from day one. it is time to elect maria cino will be able to raise money from day one. it is time to elect maria cino, a chairman who will be able to elect republicans from day one, and it is time to elect

i am confident that maria cino is that person. she is the only candidate in this race who has worked in and around the committee for better than 30 years. she is the only one who has managed the rnc not once but twice. the only one was run a national political operation for a successful presidential campaign, the only one who help bail out a national committee that was in millions of dollars worth of debt and has successfully funded a national convention. the list goes on and on. she has the confidence of our party's highest ranking official, that being speaker john boehner from the great state of ohio and i join him today in respectfully asking each and everyone of you to cast your vote for melia cino for chairman. it is now my distinct honor and pleasure to placed into nomination for chairman, the name of mario cino. thank you. [applause] >> the chair recognizes the national committeewoman from utah for the purpose of second and. >> thank you. in 1993, republicans were in big trouble. we had a charismatic young president. we had

i am confident that maria cino is that rson. she is the only candidate in this race who has worked in and around the committee for better than 30 years. the only one who has managed the rnc not once, but twice. the only one who has run a national political operation for a successful presidential campaign. the only one to help bail out a national committee of millions of dollars worth of debt. the only one who has successfully funded and managed a national convention. the list goes on and on. she has the confidence of our party's highest ranking leader, and i join him in respectfully asking everyone of you decastro for maria cino for chairman. -- to cast your vote for maria cino for chairman. it is my distinct honor to place into nomination for chairman of the name of maria cino. thank you. [applause] >> the chair recognizes the national committeewoman from utah for the purpose of seconding. >> in 1993, republicans were in big trouble. we had a charismatic young president, we had not held a house majority in 40 years, and the nrc

it is time to elect maria cino, who will be able to raise money, millions of dollars from day one. and tall for republicans across this country from day one. i have had 35 years with the national committee, and believe me, it is time. thank you very much. [applause] >> i rise to second the nomination of maria cino. she will help write the internal ship that we have and helped rectify our deficit. she will help us reach out to our candidates wit money, because when all els fails, we are going to have to have about $700 billion to win in 2012. she is the only candidate out there who has shown that she can raise that money. thank you. [applause] >> the chair recognizes the national committee man from virginia for the purpose of non and -- nominating a candidate for rnc chairman. >> it is my honor and pleasure to place a name inomination for rnc chairman. we are fortunate to have well qualified candidates for national chairman. all of thehave made their cases with respect to fund raising and their political skills, and later today, one of our candidates will win a majority of our boat.

i am confident that maria cino is that person. she is the only candidate in this race who has worked in and around the committee for better than 30 years. the only one who has managed the rnc not once, but twice. the only one who has run a national political operation for a successful presidential campaign. the only one to help bail out a national committee of millions of dollars worth of debt. the only one who has successfully funded and managed a national convention. the list goes on and on. she has the confidence of our ,arty's highest ranking leader and i join him in respectfully asking everyone of you decastro for maria cino for chairman. it is my distinct honor to place into nomination for chairman of the name of maria cino. thank you. [applause] >> the chair recognizes the national committeewoman from utah for the purpose of seconding. >> in 1993, republicans were in big trouble. we had a charismatic young president, we had not held a house majority in 40 years, and the nrcc was $5 million in debt. maria cino clear that deb

>> national journal has reported that john boehner has endorsed maria cino. how does that come into play? >> this is absolutely fascinating. endorsements mean absolutely nothing. the 168 members are an insular group. they talk to themselves -- to each other rather, it and talking to washington at large. whether it is john boehner endorsing maria cino or john bolton or die ashcroft, some of the biggest names in conservative -- or john ashcroft, of the biggest names in conservative politics. it does not matter. it almost hurts when someone big indoors is a candidate for the rnc chairmanship. there have been big endorsement in the past and it does not matter. >> what are the voters weighing? are they looking for someone who is different from michael steele and less of a headline grabber and a back room worker? >> they are looking for someone who can fill the $21 million budget gap. they say that money is the hardest mops -- hardest money to raise. back in the 1970's, the chairman established a direct mail program. in the 1980's, there was a good political progra

maria cino. >> i will try to the sec that multifaceted question. first of all again, my experience has been building strong coalitions, and i would first and foremost welcome open door and talk with all of the various groups and communicating with and working with them. i think the second thing is to make sure that our state parties are aware of the various coalitions and various groups and working with these folks as we look down the road in building from the bottom up our party to elect republicans in 2012. >> i have spent my entire political life in the trenches in this town where i grew up as an elected official and it has always been about the grass roots, the bottom-up, reaching up in getting out of the comfort zone as republicans. we do get a little comfortable with ourselves and we do become comfortable to the exclusion of others, and i think we have an enormous opportunity with the surge we have seen in the tea party activism to really open up the doors of this party and let a new light shine in on it, some fresh faces and voices that do n

anne wexler and maria cino have a long relationship. whatever your running for, the relationships matter a lot more than the endorsements. it matters a lot more if you have known a committee member for a long time, if your endorsed by john bolten or john boehner. host: could something turn that is not predicted today? is it really erase text guest: absolutely. could something turn that is not predicted today? is it really a racist? -- a race? guest: absolutely. you have candidates who have long history of support in the rnc, a large number of backers. if you have ann wagner and maria cino and people with real followings. in 2009, michael steele was elected after the sixth ballot. there was no clear-cut victory for him. you will see the same thing today. the balloting starts at 10:00 a.m. host: reid wilson at the hot line at the national journal. thanks so much. guest: thank you. host: we are looking at the fairness doctrine and whether or not there should be one. what is the fairness doctrine? legislation that provides -- requires all t

maria cino. >> i will try to the sec that multifaceted question. first of all again, my experience has been building strong coalitions, and i would first and foremost welcome open door and talk with all of the various groups and communicating with and working with them. i think the second thing is to make sure that our state parties are aware of the various coalitions and various groups and working with these folks as we look down the road in building from the bottom up our party to elect republicans in 2012. >> i have spent my entire political life in the trenches in this town where i grew up as an elected official and it has always been about the gss roots, the bottom-up, reaching up in getting out of the comfort zone as republicans. we do get a little comfortable with ourselves and we do become comfortable to the elusion of others, and i think we have an enormous opportunity with the surge we have seen in the tea party activism to really open up the doors of this party and let a new light shine in on it, some fresh faces and voices that do not l

maria cino. >> i will try to theec that multifaceted question. first of all again, my experience has been building strong coalitions, and i would first and foremost welcome open door and talk with all of the various groups and communicating with and working with them. i think the second thing is to make sure that our state parties are aware of the various coalitions and various groups and working with these folks as we look down the road in building from the bottom up our party to elect republicans in 2012. >> i have spent my entire political life in the trenches in this town where i grew up as an elected official and it has always been about the grass roots, the bottom-up, reaching up in getting out of the comfort zone as republicans. we do get a little comfortable with ourselves and we do become comfortable to the exclusion of others, and i think we have an enormous opportunity with the surge we have seen in the tea party activism to really open up the doors of this party and let a new light shine in on it, some fresh faces and voices that do n

he appeared at a reception for maria cino. on the heels of renewed calls for bipartisanship and toned- down political rhetoric, boehner is saying thanks, but no thanks to another offer to appear at an event with the president, the state dinner for president hu jintao. good morning. caller: i think it is really foolish the way the republicans are really acting. they are digging themselves a hole. john boehner is the worst and should not be in the position that he is, because he is not helping the party. sitting together is not going to prove -- it is -- they are forgetting about the people. it meant you. host: you can join the conversation at online @ twitter.com/cspanwj. one person said -- tucson, ariz., reopened -- safeway in tucson, ariz., has reopened. they inserted a tracheotomy tube in horsewoman deferreds -- d sheesswoman deferre giffords n is breathing on her own. this is inside the baltimore sun this morning. richard from massachusetts on the independent line. caller: sitting together -- you know, it is ok, but it does

maria cino. >> i will try to the sec that multifaceted question. first of all again, my experience has been building strong coalitions, and i would first and foremost welcome open door and talk with all of the various groups and communicating with and working with them. i think the second thing is to make sure that our state parties are aware of the various coalitions and various groups and working with these folks as we look down the road in building from the bottom up our party to elect republicans in 2012. >> i have spent my entire political life in the trenches in this town where i grew up as an elected official and it has always been about the grass roots, the bottom-up, reaching up in getting out of the comfort zone as republicans. we do get a little comfortable with ourselves and we do become comfortable to the exclusion of others, and i think we have an enormous opportunity with the surge we have seen in the tea party activism to really open up the doors of this party and let a new light shine in on it, some fresh faces and voices that do n

guest: maria cino is a former bush administration official who spent some time in the rnc. ann wagner is a former chairman of the missouri republican party and was an ambassador to luxembourg under george w. bush. host: she was also our "newsmakers" guest this past weekend. if people are interested in getting an idea of who she is, they can go to our web site c- span.org -- website, c-span.org. sorry i interrupted you. guest: it would be wide open, no obvious choice. gentry collins seems to have said that members want a fellow voting member. it seems like that would exclude cino because she is not. wagner, anuzis, and priebus are all running very viable campaign. chairman steele -- i guess anything could happen, but it does seem like popular sentiment is against him returning as chairman. host: rnc sees deep red for 2012 budget. what will you be watching for in the debate? guest: i want to see how he answers questions about the money that was spent, possibly in the wrong places. we do not know the candidates a very well. i have never seen priebus in an open forum. he was no

one of the interesting questions was maria cino, who had been longtime gop operative who worked in the bush white houses said the biggest mistake in the last decade was passing mccain- feingold. now post citizens united it does not have as much impact. host: when headline from "usa today." michael still defending his record two years as chair of the rnc. >> i am a glass half full kind of guy. i don't see the crisis as some may see it. i don't see it as something where the alarm bells are going off and you start remaking and blowing up. but what you do is you get down to the heavy burden some work of building. and we did. in 2009, new jersey, virginia happened. beginning of 2010, massachusetts and hawaii happen. and we began to see in our cell of the opportunity to win. and as we get through this next cycle, that reality conference as larger than anything else. we fired pelosi. the democrats wanted to -- the opportunity for all of us now is to go forward, to continue to build on success is that we have had. and i ask for your support in doing so as chairman of the republican national co