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 ...
Giggety indeed.
Yup - they should not only fire her, but fire whoever hired her in the 1st place - and fire whoever hired them, and let's go all the way up to......Michael Steele.
That's right. There are other way to "reimburse" someone for politically untenable expenses. This was amateur hour at the GOP.
Agreed. Well said.
I have not been able to locate evidence of innocence or guilt.
Fred is not historic.
No. But, with Steele at the helm much longer, the GOP just may be - relegated to history, that is.
He has a younger wife.
“”””Too many little things are starting to add up.Steele spending like a drunken sailor, defeatist attitude, etc”””””
Obviously you are a racist. /s
Fred and his crowd are too Hollywood.
Used to be you could by a vote for a pack of smokes.
The GOP has been history for quite some time.
This should be the final straw. Steele is an absolute disaster. Despite drawing a lavish salery, he spends most of his time writning a book and giving paid speeches. He live very high on the hog, flying in chartered jets and being driven around in stretch limos. All on the donors’ dime. How many outrageous expenses are there we haven’t heard about?
From your lips to Gods ears.
Fired her?
They should have promoted her to Chairman and gotten rid of that incompetent cretin Michael Steele.
Oh, you can still do that, as ACORN frequently proves. You can't, however attract $25K donations with a pack of Lucky Strikes.
Despite Obama's sagging poll numbers, the party is starving for cash. I'm sure the pressure is being felt by those who are responsible for shaking the money trees.
This is a calculated hit to damage Republicans. I won’t work.
Except that he is black and it will be called racist so he aint going anywhwere.I wish he would be fired though.
You do know why this thread is useless, doncha?
How about Karl Rove or Dick Cheney?
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