Posted on 03/30/2010 4:01:53 PM PDT by iowamark
Allison Meyers was director of the GOP's Young Eagles, a group that wooed young donors and visited a strip club in Los Angeles – racking up $1,946 in expenses that the party initially reimbursed. The scandal could hurt the GOP in three ways, in particular.
Allison Meyers, the director of the Young Eagles, a Republican program aimed at wooing donors under 45 years old to the GOP cause, was fired as a result of the strip-club scandal that has embroiled the party this week, according to media reports.
The Republican National Committee reimbursed about $2,000 in expenses rung up by the Young Eagles at a Hollywood nightclub featuring topless dancers and bondage outfits. Ms. Meyers allegedly approved the expense.
Fallout could affect Republican fundraising, particularly among its fiscally and morally conservative small donors....
Alienating small donors
"Already we see big donors avoiding the RNC like the plague. Instead they are giving to the Republican Governors Association,” says Reid Wilson, editor of... Hotline On Call. “That is going to hurt Republican efforts to retake the House and pick up Senate seats in November. Big donors don’t trust Michael Steele, and stories like this scare small donors away.”...
Steele had already alienated some major donors with his spending. He held the party’s winter meeting at a beachfront hotel in Hawaii and drew criticism for delivering paid speeches and writing a book while drawing a salary from the GOP...
Mike DeMoss, a longtime RNC donor, told Politico that, “The RNC cannot attack Democrats for how the government spends taxpayer money when it is spending Republican donor money recklessly. Recent RNC spending stories suggest a tone-deafness at best and a misappropriation of funds at worst.”
Confirming tea partyers suspicions
The nightclub flap could also hurt Republican efforts to reach out to "tea party" voters...
(Excerpt) Read more at csmonitor.com ...
Republicans can’t act like Democrats without consequences.
“With any luck this scandal will take down Michael Steele!”
Fingers crossed.
Terrible selection. A knee-jerk reaction to 0bama’s win.
Fired? No way! fire some old dude, but not her!
Excellent crisis for conservatives to exploit. Get rid of as many RINOs as possible. Get some real conservatives in who do not have to use strip clubs to recruit younger Republicans. Sarah Palin could recruit them far more cheaply.
If the RNC reaches out to be they will get back a bloodied hand. I vote for conservatives, NOT Republicans.
“Do we have any photos?”
Of...Michael Steele in compromising positions?
Or, were you referring to ‘other’ photos?
Just asking...
Honest and sober politician ???
Does that creature exist ?
Kind of like Dick Clark.
Two word solution: Ken Blackwell
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Someone needs to do some serious checking into her background - looks like a plant IMHO.
Blackwell would be awesome! Its obvious the GOP won’t fire Steele because they are afraid of a race issue just before an election. Blackwell takes that BS issue away from the dems but most of all it gives us a real conservative!
I did a Facebook search - I’m very doubtful that the girl in this photo is THE Allison Meyers.
This time, we need somebody tough, competent and on the November election like a rat on a roach.
wow she’s cute, the face of this “terrible” story.
Then WHY isn’t there a PICTURE of THE Alison Meyers?????????? hmmmmmmmm.
I love ol' Fred but he turned in a really disappointing run for President and I think he's lost all the fire in his belly. So, I say no to him at the RNC. I think we have to winnow out ALL the RINOS up there, first to get the health back into the organization. That includes a change of attitude at the subatomic level.
Good question.
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