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 ...
No, it's the needle at the bottom at the haystack that the Dems had to go diving for to excite all the conservatives.
Palin didn't pay $2,000 in back taxes on her property. Gonna get all excited about that too?
This is the kind of machine he’s running?
One low-level flunkie is now the machine? Surprising, actually, if this is all they can find in the vast RNC "machine".
McQueeg was far from a lock when we voted in Missouri. Fred’s name was still on the ballot and he had dropped out at least three weeks prior to the primary. The sequence of events doesn’t hold up. Fred never had that much horsepower in the race anyway. Mittens and Huckster were all the media talked about while quietly steering their minions to cross over for McLame.
Are you Elvis Costello?
You go, Tiger!
How can one little incident reflect upon the Republican
Party? Sounds like democrat dirty tricks!
“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.”
Not necessarily. Give to individual candidates or conservative PAC’s.
Fred Thompson didn’t even want to participate in his own campaign, and you want to put him in charge of doling out money and advisors for literally hundreds of them?
Note to FReepers: just because you like someone’s political positions doesn’t mean they can be effective managers.
Given that McCain was our presidential candidate, it would be a little shocking if a GOP operative did NOT have some sort of McCain relation or promotion on their Facebook page.
As for the “fan” bit, you read too much into a term decided on by the site, not the person.
Perhaps she was doing her part to support single mothers.
I would have much rather had Ken Blackwell than Steele.
Maybe Steele was another capitulation of centrality by the Republicans to the media.
What a bunch of baloney, who cares if they went to a strip club??? I really don’t, as long as they fight to destroy democrat power I am for them!
What conservative in their right mind donates to the RNC anyway? We tend to donate directly to the conservative candidates themselves. I’ve never donated directly to these fools.
Agreed.
My guess is that he's going to let her take the fall, but I invite him to prove me wrong.
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