The Hotline reporting this morning:
After receiving calls from RNC members asking him to run for RNC chair, ex-OH Sec/State Ken Blackwell is now considering a bid (Wake-Up Call! sources).
Blackwell was soundly defeated in his Ohio gov bid in '06, after a controversial stint as the secretary of state there. He's since been writing at Town Hall and heading up the Coalition for a Conservative Majority.
If he were to be a candidate for the RNC gig, that would mean the party has two African Americans vying to be one of the party's leading voices during an Obama administration. Michael Steele, the former Maryland lieutenant gov, is also in the mix.
As candidates in 2006, Blackwell mostly held to his strict conservative views on abortion, taxes and gun rights, while Steele presented a more moderate face in the deeper blue Free State.
-Mike Memoli
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