You might wonder how this kind of thing can be resolved by Charter Chuck with a $480 check. The guys in Congress have set up a sweetheart deal for themselves: they can get us taxpaying chumps to pick up the cost of a charter, and then they "reimburse" the government the cost of alternative public transportation: a coach ticket, or bus fare.
The writer of this piece belittles a Beechcraft Bonanza. Well, let me tell you why the vainglorious Chuck flies in that small six-seater: it comes and goes on his schedule, there is no inconvenient security (might be important: there are persistent rumors that Chuck carries a gun), and no waiting for airline schedules or other passengers. You will have no 400-pound, hygenically-challenged behemoth, nor any screaming infant in the next seat. Politicians hate flying scheduled airlines because it exposes them to unscripted contact with the electorate, and nothing good can come of that.
"I only cheated a little, and I paid it back when I got caught," seems to be what he's saying here, and Charter Chuck wants brownie points for that. Sheesh.
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Criminal Number 18F
Nice to know how our betters take care of themselves, thanks. Fienswine is authoritatively rumored to have a carry permit. I have read that the Chicago City Council have been deputized so they can carry. Remember that great proponent of gun control, the late columnist Carl Rowan shot or brandished on someone breaking and entering. He had a throw away from his son, a Federal Marshall in D.C., IIRC.