Posted on 08/28/2014 5:24:02 AM PDT by NCjim
President Obama’s plan to schmooze Wall Street honchos at a Westchester fund-raiser Friday is grounding wealthy weekenders who planned to fly to the Hamptons or Nantucket for the Labor Day holiday.
The FAA has issued a no-fly warning that extends for most of Friday and all day Saturday through Sunday, grounding seaplanes to East Hampton, Montauk, Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket.
On Friday, Obama will be feted at the home of one of his top bundlers, 32 Advisors’ Robert Wolf, in the aptly-named Purchase, NY, with 250 high-rollers paying up to $32,000 each to bend Obama’s ear.
Obama will then fly to Newport, R.I. for an event to benefit House Democrats. Melissa Tomkiel, president of seaplane companies, Fly the Whale (which flies from NYC to the Hamptons and Nantucket) and Tailwind (NYC to Boston and DC), told us, “A flight restriction was issued banning operations in the NYC area due to the president’s visit on Friday for practically the whole weekend, causing major business losses and inconvenience for our passengers on the busiest weekend of the year. It is frustrating. We have had to move at least 10 flights and cancel a number of private charters, costing us thousands of dollars. We count on this weekend to get us through the quieter months of the year. This will create a perfect storm on a holiday Friday, creating air space havoc between New York City and Boston.”
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Boohoo. Serves the Swells right for supporting this failure with campaign cash twice, when they must have known he was unfit to be president.
My heart bleeds.
Bwahahahahahaha. Let some of the rich and famous eat Obama’s peas.
Poor bastards...
Is Michael, err, Moochelle, going with him?
Ha ha, you voted for him, you got him. Could not happen to a nicer bunch.
Havoc created by him and the rest of America’s Royal Family applies across the board.
Just can't get there... lol
Schadenfreude!
Oh no! Here let me break out a box of tissues!
I think many of you are missing the point. The author is not one of the rich lib-leaning Wall Street types. He is the owner of a small business who makes his living by selling services to them. He relies on the end of summer income to get him through a lean winter. We’ve allowed an Imperial Presidency (Obama is the worst, but not first) to be able to trample on ordinary citizens at will. There is no national issue causing this trip; it is a fundraiser.
Instead of ‘author’ I should have said ‘source of the quote’.
Well it’s OK because he didn’t build that. ;)
Additional thoughts...
How many restaurants (chefs, waiters, bus boys, owners), hotels (maids, front counter clerks), stores (clerks) will this hurt? Many here gripe at the Democrat’s politics of social division and class warfare but all of the comments above show the same mentality.
No Elisabeth Warren and her tribe established that airport long before the white man came to these shores.
To quote Abraham Lincoln “If it is on the internet it must be true!”
Seriously though I know that all the little people will be hurt. BUT! Many of these same little people vote Democrat and deride trickle down economics. Sometimes you have to let people suffer and hope they learn.
Three weeks of vacation followed by a week of campaigning??????
What a joke this guy is?
Obama is so self centered.
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