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 ...
Hardly. Crossover Rats are responsible. The same outcome would’ve been achieved had Fred been in the race or not. The result wouldn’t have mattered anyway, Fred wouldn’t have beaten Zero any more than Juan McQueeg did. Jesus Christ Himself wouldn’t have beaten Zero in 2008, even if He ran as a liberal.
What sex is this “Allison”? And age? Marital status?
No, we’ve already had a TN Republican posing as a conservative as chaqirman: Bill Brock, later of Steele’s MD.
She is HAWT! I would sure like to party with HER!
STEELE NEEDS TO GO NOW.
Someone was fired: an obvious admission that this actually happened. The only question is why not the top dog? He needs to go.
Howdy - I read where Gen McCrystal has/is shutting down the fast food places in Afghanistan. I think he did a pass on Tim Hortons though. Is that closure going to hit your AO in Iraq?
have fun.
I do: they don’t call it the stupid party for no reason.
I thought I heard something on the AM radio this PM about this card charge was a “former” RNC gophers mess “””after””” they were fired. Not one currently employed.
True/false or damage control from panic management ?
From your lips to God's ears.
Wait, would that be racist of us though? Oh, nevermind...Steele is a Republican.
You can count on this: Any excuse you hear from the Steele RNC is a lie.
The fact that anyone believes him only encourages a crook like Steele. The fact that he is allowed to spend RNC money on resorts, limos, private jets, booze, strippers, etc., etc. is only encouraging him.
What? You don’t think spending $1,946 at a strip joint isn’t the same as incurring a $7,000,000,000,000 public debt?
LOL! Yup. Kinda like Dick Clark.
Y’know, the truth is, Dick Clark went comepltely bald many long years ago, but most folks don’t know that because he’s had his face lifted so many times that now his armpits are on top of his head.
[bows]
Thank you, thank you. I’ll be here all week.
I’m sure, positive, certain, this is the one of the 67, the one definitely not guilty! Isn’t that enough?
Thanks for the info.
All I can say these days is ....Come onnnnn November.....vote as much of this polidiot trash out of congress as we can !
As if I give to the GOP/RNC.
Although branching off of this wrong person fired I must say I’m tired of the Steele bashers within the GOP using this to attack again. Yeah, he’s not great. Neither are they but they aren’t resigning. I think they should all resign and then call for Steele to join then. That I’d climb onboard with.
Scratch out “wrong” from the post. Don’t know how that got left in the sentence. The right person was fired. I just think more then that person and more then Steele should walk the plank. These anonymous sources are no prizes either.
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