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 ...
the dems and their willing accomplices in the media are attempting another Foley type attack on Republicans.
Next they’ll try to access Steele’s credit report... wait.
C'mon people...that's like saying the Repub party are violent war-mongers because a brick was thrown thru one window.
GET SOME PERSPECTIVE!!
Why is it Repubs lose all sense when the word "SEX" is mentioned?
Makes you wonder just who Reid Wilson, editor of... Hotline On Call, is to be commenting on RNC finances.
AGREED! The regular useful idiots are playing right into the media’s scandal du jour.
What’s more important: Michael Steele keeping his job, or the Republicans taking back the House in November?
That’s a no-brainer. Steele must go. He’s killing us.
I resemble that remark!
Actually I'd prefer Fred for Sarah's Dick Cheney.
It seems to me more a calculated hit to damage Steele, who after all was not at the strip club and apparently knew nothing about the indicent. (Poor thing, he was busy flying back from Hawaii.) The story was promoted by conservative Tucker Carlson on his "Daily Caller" website and has been mentioned repeatedly in National Review's Corner.
The blame should be assigned to the person who ran up the charges at the club, which apparently were billed as "meals." If the RNC staffer approved a fraudulent invoice, I'm not sure that justifies firing her. It might justify prosecuting the guy who submitted the invoice.
Let’s not confuse the desire to replace Steele for other reasons, with every little hiccup the democrats want to use against all republicans.
The party is “tainted” by one stupid incident? I think not. Apparently some woman wanted to take donors to a risque place. Big whoopee.
Desperate and Pathetic MSM at work.
Should be: approved payment for a fraudulent invoice.
Jerri Thompson for RNC Chairwoman.
I could get behind that.
Giggety.
Absolutely not. Thompson's behavior assured McCain's nomination. Methinks you've fallen for an act.
None of this is illegal and the party has a right to spend money as it pleases. This article talks about “misappropriation”. Please, this woman tried to be too “cool” and obviously gave some donors what they wanted. People going to strip clubs is an old old story, as is reaction as to whether it is approprate.
Everything that happens is not a big deal.
I will not reduce my donations to the RNC by as much as one dollar from their current levels...........
Somebody probably told her it was ok. She was probably a low level staffer and sacrificial lamb. I am just guessing thats what happened. I stopped responding to RNC fund raising long before this latest snafu.
Is she a DEMOCRAT??? What’s her BACKGROUND??? NO CONSERVATIVE should be caught dead in a place like this!!
“... as strip-club scandal taints party...”
Strip-club. Taints. I get it.
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