Monday, March 29, 2010

This is how RNC's Michael Steele spends your money


Lord, Michael. You should have known this was a dumb move, besides being Black and in the RNC, but I digress.

Anywho, look at this fool's lavish spending habits:

While Steele has not purchased a plane, he continues to charter them. According to federal disclosure records, the RNC spent $17,514 on private aircraft in the month of February alone (as well as $12,691 on limousines during the same period). There are no readily identifiable private plane expenses for Democratic National Committee chairman Tim Kaine in the DNC’s last three months of filings.

The RNC explains that Steele charters jets only when commercial service is unavailable, or when his tight schedule requires it. “Anytime the chairman has taken any private travel has been a either to a route that doesn’t exist or because of connections and multiple travel to where he just wasn’t able to do so,” Heye said. Yet Steele’s office repeatedly refused to explain in specific terms the circumstances of the February charter flights.

Once on the ground, FEC filings suggest, Steele travels in style. A February RNC trip to California, for example, included a $9,099 stop at the Beverly Hills Hotel, $6,596 dropped at the nearby Four Seasons, and $1,620.71 spent [update: the amount is actually $1,946.25] at Voyeur West Hollywood, a bondage-themed nightclub featuring topless women dancers imitating lesbian sex.

RNC trips to other cities produced bills from a long list of chic and costly hotels such as the Venetian and the M Resort in Las Vegas, and the W (for a total of $19,443) in Washington. A midwinter trip to Hawaii cost the RNC $43,828, not including airfare.

Strip clubs, Vegas, Lesbian Sex... Those are values I can believe in.

2 comments:

Ray Avito said...

Bondage nightclub? Jeez, Michael, just write Jon Stewart's jokes for him, why dontcha...

Unknown said...

The way Republicans try to paint themselves as the common man is hilarious. This dude is living a truly elite lifestyle.

sidenote, have you seen the awesome new cover to this weeks Wonder Woman. http://www.ifanboy.com/comics/dc_comics/iJAN100290/wonder_woman/42/cover-large.jpg

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