Posted on 03/31/2015 12:52:44 PM PDT by drewh
First lady Michelle Obama's recent trip to Cambodia this month cost taxpayers $242,500 – for hotel rooms alone – allowing her to perform her offical duties at two events for a total of 33 minutes. That's $7,348 of lodging costs for every minute on the job.
A government contracting document shows that the State Department authorized spending nearly a quarter-million dollars so Mrs. Obama – traveiling with an entourage of high-ranking government officials and their security detail – could promote the 'Let Girls Learn' initiative, which girls' access to education.
Transcripts provided to media by the White House Press Office indicate that Mrs. Obama spoke with a group of 10 girls at Hun Sen Bakorng High School for 21 minutes. After that appearance, she spoke at a Peace Corps Training Round Table event for 12 more minutes.
That second appearance took place conveniently at the luxury five-star Sofitel Angkor Phokeethra Golf and Spa Resort in Siem Reap, Cabodia, where she was staying. The government booked 85 separate rooms for 14 nights, even though the first lady only stayed there for two.
The State Department ruled on March 3 that there was no time to solicit competitive bids for the March 21 trip, and ruled that the 'unusual and compelling urgency' of the first lady's travel justified a no-bid contract to the Sofitel resort.
In addition to the 85 guest rooms, her trip to Siem Reap required five office suites, five 'sleeping suites' and a conference room.
If Mrs. Obama stayed in one of those 'sleeping suites,' she had her own butler. They come standard.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Almost worth it to get her fat butt out of the country.
And this is without Sharia and Malaria, who wouldn’t go on Sping Break with mommy...
In the Reconstruction period the black legislature of Louisiana voted themselves $250,000 in Christmas hams. Her expenditure reveals that nothing is new under the sun.
Does the GOP House not appropriate the money for all this?
of course
3rd World country...1st World accommodations..
she didn’t go there to see Cambodia...
I guarantee that the cost of the hotel rooms was barely a fraction of what the entire trip cost us.
Lucky for me I’m living vicariously on all these vaca’s. After all, we paid for them. Those sheets were really nice. :>}
Poor dear, she has had to make such a gut-wrenching sacrifice living in the WH, did you know she can’t even open the windows there?
(Which seriously was one of the smallest, most reprehensible comments this spoiled bit&$ has made since she loped her way into the WH. Does the imbecile realize we are at war and troops are dying so this leech can spend $280,000.00 in two days on vacation?
Just what "official duties" does an un-elected, non-official have?
She should be back in Washington, cleaning up after Obama's and Reggie's trysts.
Wonder if she’s still ashamed at the country?
Michelle Antoinette.....”let them eat Moon Pies.”
Life is tough for the rich guys like Kerry... lol
She doesn’t have official duties. No such thing. She’s a hostess.
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