| Michael Steele, Maryland's former lieutenant governor and a candidate for U.S. Senate, talked to The Examiner about why he's running to become chairman of the Republican National Committee. Here is an edited transcript of that interview with State House Bureau Chief Len Lazarick.
"I have a good sense of what it's going to take to turn this ship around and get us back in the game again, if you will -- to be competitive politically, to be competitive on the issues with new ideas and a different sense of how this country should move forward.
The old battles are over. The Cold War was won, the Berlin Wall is down. We need to stop playing out of the playbook that was built around those struggles and those times and look at a new age, where energy and poverty and health care and the welfare of communities is much more at stake. The party needs to speak to those things in a very personal way.
My background and experience as a county chairman and a state chairman speaks to that. Certainly, the work that I've done to incorporate technologies and new strategies to how we communicate with voters will also lend itself to that fresh approach."
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