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Clinton: Stiffed the waitress? Big tip found
Baltimore Sun ^ | November 8, 2007 | Glenn Thrush,

Posted on 11/08/2007 2:16:14 PM PST by radar101

At first, the story line went like this: Sen. Hillary Clinton may have committed the ultimate political culinary sin -- not tipping the waitress.

But the story was wrong: NPR has retracted its initial report, a nasty little anecdote about iClnton meeting a working-mom waitress at the Maid-Rite eatery in Iowa over the summer, using her story in a speech -- and then stiffing her on the tip.

Now NPR has confirmed the tip with an editor's note: "Since this story aired, Hillary Clinton's campaign contacted NPR to say that the campaign paid Maid-Rite a bill for $100 for food for the day of Clinton's visit and left $57 in tip money. NPR contacted Maid-Rite manager Brad Crawford, who confirmed that a bill was paid and tip money was left.

"Crawford, who was not in the restaurant at the time, said that he believes a campaign staffer left the money with one of his employees, but "where Hillary was sitting, there was no tip left." Neither Anita Esterday nor the manager on duty that day were available for comment as of noon Thursday.''

(Excerpt) Read more at weblogs.baltimoresun.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: damagecontrol; flubba; hillary; hillaryscandals; retroactive
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To: SkyDancer
Cheapskates. Tipping wait-staff is traditional and an expected part of their compensation.
41 posted on 11/08/2007 2:56:36 PM PST by Jacquerie (There is food value in beer. There is no beer value in food.)
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To: SkyDancer

You obviously have never been in a position of living on your tips. I guess it’s that silver spoon thingy.


42 posted on 11/08/2007 2:57:21 PM PST by Balata
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To: radar101
Who do you believe?

I believe it's been too long since I've had a Maid-Rite...

43 posted on 11/08/2007 2:57:21 PM PST by null and void (No more Bushes/No more Clintons)
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To: radar101
"Since this story aired, Hillary Clinton's campaign contacted NPR to say that the campaign paid Maid-Rite a bill for $100 for food for the day of Clinton's visit and left $57 in tip money.

The food bill was exactly an even $100 and the tip was the odd figure of $57?

That sounds strange. As in, I'm not believing those numbers strange.

44 posted on 11/08/2007 2:58:19 PM PST by savedbygrace (SECURE THE BORDERS FIRST (I'M YELLING ON PURPOSE))
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To: Recovering_Democrat
You're jumping to conclusions, don't you think?

The matter has gotten to the point that the manager is the spokesperson for the restaurant.

And if it were your place, you'd tell the staff..."Look...nobody speaks for this joint but me. If you don't like that, turn in your apron."

45 posted on 11/08/2007 3:02:10 PM PST by DCPatriot ("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon))
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To: radar101

SHE LEFT A 55% TIP???? I'm calling Bull...I mean ClintonSh!t on this one!


46 posted on 11/08/2007 3:04:36 PM PST by Bommer ("He that controls the spice controls the universe!" (unfortunately that spice is Nutmeg!)
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To: ml/nj

TO ALL: As I said in my post I did not want to turn this into a debate - shame?? I simply mentioned the movie ...now I get slammed because of it? It is not up to me to help pay someone else’s wage - the employer who pays the wage should give them enough and not depend on the public to help pay for his help, what’s next? Help pay for their health insurance the employer won’t pay ..... my attitude only .....
End of argument ...k?


47 posted on 11/08/2007 3:05:25 PM PST by SkyDancer ("There is no distinctly Native American criminal class...save Congress - Mark Twain")
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To: Balata

Look idiot - I paid my way through flight school without handouts!!!!! If I had to live on tips I’d find another job .... and I was born with a brass spoon thingie .....


48 posted on 11/08/2007 3:06:58 PM PST by SkyDancer ("There is no distinctly Native American criminal class...save Congress - Mark Twain")
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To: Jacquerie

Nope - it was a tradition started during or at the end of the Civil War -


49 posted on 11/08/2007 3:08:00 PM PST by SkyDancer ("There is no distinctly Native American criminal class...save Congress - Mark Twain")
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To: SkyDancer
No. Not "k" by me. Your family has effectively been stealing from low wage earners for years. It's not "k."

ML/NJ

50 posted on 11/08/2007 3:08:05 PM PST by ml/nj
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To: ml/nj

No - it was the employers paying low wages - living off the backs of their employees ...... if employers paid a decent wage we wouldn’t be having this discussion ... K??????????


51 posted on 11/08/2007 3:09:57 PM PST by SkyDancer ("There is no distinctly Native American criminal class...save Congress - Mark Twain")
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To: Izzy Dunne
Brad Crawford, who confirmed that a bill was paid and tip money was left.

Brad Crawford wants to live to see the weekend...

52 posted on 11/08/2007 3:10:42 PM PST by ErnBatavia (...forward this to your 10 very best friends....)
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To: radar101

The waitress must have been stiffed by whoever the tip was given to, because she said she did not receive a tip.

Or somebody is lying.


53 posted on 11/08/2007 3:15:34 PM PST by RobRoy (Islam is a greater threat to the world today than Nazism was in 1938.)
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To: radar101
Can we believe Hillary when she is President again?
54 posted on 11/08/2007 3:16:34 PM PST by Lion Den Dan
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To: SkyDancer

I must point out to you that the wage structure for wait staff is the same all over this country, and has been for years, and that everyone knows it; you are taking advantage of people by not leaving a tip. Less kind people would say something worse.

The wage structure for these people isn’t going to change because you don’t leave a tip. You are simly lumped in with the other tightwads who also don’t leave tips, causing a great deal of hardship on servers who DEPEND on those tips.

If you don’t believe in tipping, the ethical thing to do is to eat at home, go through a drive-through, or pick something up at a deli. Period.


55 posted on 11/08/2007 3:17:41 PM PST by Miss Marple
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To: ozzymandus

I was on the road today listening to the radio and the campaign said they left a $100 tip, and who knows where it went?


56 posted on 11/08/2007 3:17:42 PM PST by Safetgiver (So simple, even a Muslim can do it.)
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To: SkyDancer
Look little girl. In many of the place I patronize the waitstaff would work for free. The employers know this and pay them next to nothing. If they had to pay them what they make in tips they a beer might cost $10, but it doesn't. Like I said, this is AMERICA. Maybe your family would prefer things back in the USSR?

ML/NJ

57 posted on 11/08/2007 3:18:19 PM PST by ml/nj
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To: SkyDancer

What does the Civil War have to do with my comment?


58 posted on 11/08/2007 3:18:23 PM PST by Jacquerie (All Muslims are suspect.)
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To: radar101

This has to be a LIE. If A $57 tip was left, it would have been a huge deal at the time.


59 posted on 11/08/2007 3:18:36 PM PST by Kirkwood
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To: Jacquerie

Because that’s when the tradition of tipping really started ...


60 posted on 11/08/2007 3:20:22 PM PST by SkyDancer ("There is no distinctly Native American criminal class...save Congress - Mark Twain")
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