So he gets there on the first, leaves on the second and accrues almost $14,000 dollars in expenses? What the hell were the other expenses? Paying two months of his mortgage?
I checked the Continental website. Last minute, first class airfare from Houston to LaGuardia is $2400 RT. That would be $7200 for three people.
Hotel rooms can run as high as $500/night in New York.
That leaves $5700 for food, limousine and "incidentals."
Maybe FOX had to hire security.
Hell, I don't know. Maybe DeLay had to buy a new suit, some cuff links, a new pair of alligator shoes, get his hair done, his teeth whitened, a manicure, a massage, a microdermabrasion treatment, and an official photograph.
Private flights back and forth...that's close to $10K...putting him up in a lux suite somewhere plus whining/dining adds up. FOX or any other network isn't going to make him take a coach flight, they send corporate jets to get these busy people at their convenience. This is nothing new. An aide or his wife may have accompanied him too so that increases the cost.
I guarantee if Delay went on commie-news-network that they'd have to pick up a similiar tab.