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GOP fires Allison Meyers as strip-club scandal taints party
Christian Science Monitor ^ | 03/30/2010 | Dave Cook

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 ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: ca2010; contrivedbymitt; giggitygiggitygoo; gop; mattrhoades; michaelsteele; rnc; romneyinsiders; romneyorchestrated; steele
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To: Allegra

JERI Thompson is MUCH STRONGER than FRED!!!


61 posted on 03/30/2010 4:43:41 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion,,,,,,the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: iowamark

The DNC would have been doing gay bondage clubs.....

I like Allison!!


62 posted on 03/30/2010 4:45:27 PM PDT by misterrob (Have you tea bagged a liberal today?)
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To: All

This is where the DNC drops $10,000.00 http://bit.ly/aypUZx

http://bit.ly/b1rMB1


63 posted on 03/30/2010 4:46:03 PM PDT by OafOfOffice (W.C:Socialism:Philosophy of failure,creed of ignorance,gospel of envy,the equal sharing of misery)
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To: Williams

A very passionate post, however, in the tradition of Freerepublic.com, I prefer to let the photographic evidence determine the guilt or innocence of females suspected of improprieties.


64 posted on 03/30/2010 4:46:59 PM PDT by klute
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To: LS

You have to remember that many of these young “Republicans” have no more morals than liberals.


65 posted on 03/30/2010 4:47:14 PM PDT by GeronL (There is only a "Happily ever after" for you if you're the one writing your own script)
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To: PaleoBob; gathersnomoss

Paleolithic?


66 posted on 03/30/2010 4:47:58 PM PDT by HKMk23 (The Democrat Legacy: Hoax and Chains)
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To: GeronL

When is she on Larry King or maybe Joy Behar or Greta?

No pics? Is she cute?


67 posted on 03/30/2010 4:48:25 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. Chuck DeVore - CA Senator. Believe.)
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To: OldDeckHand

Maybe those are people we don’t need in the party


68 posted on 03/30/2010 4:48:39 PM PDT by GeronL (There is only a "Happily ever after" for you if you're the one writing your own script)
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To: iowamark

Democrats are playing conservatives like a fiddle and conservatives are obligingly cooperating.

One would think they would have more sense than to fall for a very minor incident completely blown out of proportion, and attack the GOP, who IS our only hope to take back Congress from the Democrats.

I guess all those on this thread would rather continue with the Obama-Pelosi-Reid triumvirate?


69 posted on 03/30/2010 4:48:42 PM PDT by SmartInsight (Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote. ~ G. J. Nathan)
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To: OldDeckHand
Despite Obama's sagging poll numbers, the party is starving for cash I would never donate a dime to the party because I think they're all squishes. Dede Scozzafava should have been the last straw, how many last straws should they get? The reason nobody is donating to the RNC is because social conservatives have been told for a long time to go pound sand. So they are.
70 posted on 03/30/2010 4:51:52 PM PDT by GeronL (There is only a "Happily ever after" for you if you're the one writing your own script)
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To: iowamark; a fool in paradise; Slings and Arrows
Allison Meyers on Facebook. Guilty? NO effing way!


71 posted on 03/30/2010 4:53:01 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: iowamark

to the republican party do not bother soliciting me for money. I will give it directly to the candidate. The centralization of the government and the centralization of the political parties is not what this individual desires. Notice the blacks in leadership are plaqued by scandals demoRats Paterson (extra marital affairs) and Obama (gay relationships). Steele blames a woman for his own scandal.

Yes that is right Steele blames a woman for his problem Sounds like Adam blaming Eve all over again.

Forget Repugilicans I am sick of the centralization of power. The corruption is sickening. Seems that everyone desires to go black in leadership. Seems everyone has to adopt the black mindset, sex and sex and more sex.


72 posted on 03/30/2010 4:53:27 PM PDT by hondact200 ( Lincoln Freed the Enslaved. Obama Enslaves the Free. Michigan is not a socialist state)
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To: iowamark

There’s more to this story than is being reported.


73 posted on 03/30/2010 4:55:06 PM PDT by NotSoModerate
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To: iowamark
The RNC cannot attack Democrats for how the government spends taxpayer money when it is spending Republican donor money recklessly.

Well he has a point.

I heard Steele spent over $17,000 on air travel. In one month?

74 posted on 03/30/2010 4:56:17 PM PDT by Fishtalk
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To: GeronL
"Maybe those are people we don’t need in the party"

Maybe not. But, the party is starving for cash, and to win elections, the GOP needs more votes, not fewer. I applaud their unorthodox outreach to people who are disenchanted with Obama's big government spending, but perhaps they should avoid things that are this unorthodox

75 posted on 03/30/2010 4:57:09 PM PDT by OldDeckHand
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To: iowamark

Sarah Palin for RNC Chair, asap!


76 posted on 03/30/2010 4:59:04 PM PDT by johnthebaptistmoore (If leftist legislation that's already in place really can't be ended by non-leftists, then what?)
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To: LS

What was Steele thinking when he hired a slut?


77 posted on 03/30/2010 5:01:34 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: ArrogantBustard
Jerri Thompson for RNC Chairwoman.

I could get behind that as well.

We've got to get Steele OUT.

78 posted on 03/30/2010 5:01:41 PM PDT by Allegra (SEIU delenda est)
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To: iowamark

Steele has to go, too.

It’s a good idea trying to bring “Young Eagles” into the party.

But we want eagles, not buzzards. If they need to be taken to a lesbian bondage club to persuade them to join, we don’t want them, thank you very much.

Steele has yet to do ANYTHING right. He is a total loser, and it’s hardly a surprise that this is the kind of idiot who is working for him.


79 posted on 03/30/2010 5:02:51 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: circlecity

I think you have nailed the culture that Steele invites in the Republican party by his own lavish lifestyle. We don’t need the stretch limos, chartered jets and luxury hotels for the party elite. We need a GOP Chairman that recognizes the value of every dollar received and not something to be used to wipe the dog poo off the bottom of their John Lobb shoes.


80 posted on 03/30/2010 5:03:50 PM PDT by jonrick46 (We're being water boarded with the sewage of Fabian Socialism.)
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