The Republican National Committee is losing the person who leads the GOP’s outreach to black communities, as first reported by NBC News and confirmed by The Huffington Post.
Kristal Quarker-Hartsfield, the national director of African-American Initiatives at the RNC, is leaving the organization to work for Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) as his director of intergovernmental affairs. Her last day is set to be Friday, and she is the second black top staffer to depart the RNC this month.
Quarker-Hartsfield and the RNC did not return repeated requests for comment on her reasons for leaving.
Quarker-Hartsfield joins several other staffers of color who have departed the RNC recently. Orlando Watson, communications director for black media, left earlier this month. Tara Wall and Raffi Williams, son of Fox News political analyst Juan Williams, both left their press positions at the RNC late last year.
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…can’t figure out why she wants to play ball for the rethuglicans anyway…hope she got something from them while she was in that position…like money….they can’t offer anything else…and that says a lot about her…what else would she do for money?…
Well she did not leave the GOP – she simply left that particular position…