Posted on 01/27/2004 10:51:53 AM PST by jmcclain19
This morning, while listening to the Bruce Jacobs show on KFYI 550 here in Phoenix, I was genuinely surprised to hear the voice of Jay Carson, the press secretary for Howard Dean, being interviewed. Jacobs is a staunch conservative, so hearing him lob softballs to Carson made me feel like I was in some sort of twilight zone.
To get to the point, Jacobs asked Carson how the campaign was doing financially. Carson expectedly replied that things were great, that the future of the campaign was strong and so forth.
Then Carson got hit with the mack truck of surprises. Bruce Jacobs had secretly got a hold of Brown Bag Deli owner Scott Hoffman, who had appeared in a report on WHO in Iowa, stating that the Dean camp had stiffed his deli for nearly $1000 in bills. Unlike each of the other campaigns, the Dean camp has repeatedly ignored Hoffman's request for payment. He showed up at the customer's downtown office just in time for lunch. The Dean headquarters was utter chaos. But he couldn't find anyone who'd pay him. They said try the other building next door. Same answer next door, try the other building. Scott went back and forth for 20 minutes. Nobody would pay. He just assumed they would pay in good faith. After all, Dick Gephardt's campaign paid its lunch bills on time. And Howard Dean has thousands of followers in Iowa. Can't one of them give Scott his money? We tried all day to reach Howard Dean's people-- no comment from them yet. By the way, Scott Hoffman says he considered himself a possible Dean supporter before the incident. He's since changed his mind.
Let's just say that Carson was less than enthusiastic about getting this sprung on him, and after repeated prompting promised to pay the bill. Hoffman was gracious and thanked Jacobs before hanging up.
As soon as I can find audio or a transcript of this I'll post it.
Run for president and you can avoid this problem.
Campaigns are notorious for stiffing the entire country for their expenses. Good deli is getting hard to find even in a big town. That's one bill they shoulda paid. Unlike hotels, lawyers, restaraunts, and escort services, good deli is thin in the yellow pages.
I saw a charter firm flying staffers around run up a $62,000 fuel bill and it took two years for them to get paid in the 96 cycle. At one point they could not get fuel and picked certain airports based on who would be stupid enough to sell them more.
Why yes sir Mr.Dean, how was our service?"
" I loved the eggs, the bacon, the toast, the jelly, the coffee, and after we leave here I'm gonna go to Washington and take a big dump......YYYEEEEHHHAAAAWWWW."
"Here's another confirmation of the Dean story. "
That's what the Dean story reminded me of too.
IIRC, Hillary left restaurants during her Senate campaign without leaving any tip at all! No notice or appreciation of the waitstaff given at all.
The lame explanation was that restaurant owners were feeding Hitlery and her entourage gratis because they were so thrilled to have her stuff her face there.
So Hitlery, being uneducated in proper behavior toward the "little people" she loves so much, just assumed she could stiff the waitress too.
The bum deserves getting stiffed.
Hey Scott, consider it a donation to your guy!
You better hope the steam whistle never gets to the White House because he will double your taxes if he could.
Too bad the President bothered to stop at the place.
Politicans and govt employees do it to us daily...
A lot of folks on FR dropped a single dollar bill in the mail to the waitress (who IIRC was a single, working mom) to make up for the Hillariod's rudeness and she wound up with a bit over two hundred dollars last I heard.
I just did the same thing - stamped a dollar bill with "DEADBEAT DEAN DOLLAR" in red ink and dropped it in the mail with a short note to the Iowa deli owner. (The address is in another thread).
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