stooopid cow...
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 ...
Steele needs to go. If there’s one thing that bothers me, it’s people living high on the hog on the dime of others. It’s kind of difficult for the Republicans to differentiate themselves from aristocratic Dems like Pelosi and her government-paid junkets when we have this Steele character demanding private jets for his travels. Who does he think is paying for that largesse?
And thre ALL CAPS and MULTIPLE EXCLAMATION POINTS really do sway my opinion!!!
Fred would be perfect, especially in this sort of clean-up situation.
“I heard Steele spent over $17,000 on air travel. In one month?”
Well, apparently, Steele is in the same club as Al Gore,
the private plane club
or the Lear Jet Set
While we debate and dicuss this, liberal politicians are doing things that make this scandal look like a lesson at Sunday School.....
Is THAT Alison Meyers??
stooopid cow...
Thanks for your observation!!! geesh....Helloooooo Fred.
So they went to a bondage club to investigate Obama’s MANDATORY health care. Were they asking the dancers what they thought of the program?
Michael Steele or anybody else, it doesn't matter. It was just another GOP hit piece........
Since when has the American public ever given a rip where the finances of either political party go to or what their activities are?
"A party divided...".......that's the mantra of the MSM and everyone is falling for it.
Do we have any photos?
Am I the only one giggling over the use of ‘strip club’ and ‘taint’ in the same sentence?
Michael Steele is either Dumb as a ROCK or he is so Warped that he doesn’t know Right from Wrong!! He is One “BIDEN” Disaster after another!! Just hung up on a request for a Donation today! told the Represent that when Steele is gone and there is a Responsible Leader as Chairman to call back and the checkbook will be open! but NOT UNTIL! My money will go directly to John Boehner during that time! and to Sarah Palin!! I TRUST THEM! I Trust Mr. Steele about as far as I can throw The Rock of Gibralter!! and that aint gona change any time in the Future after Steele’s Unlimited Number of “BIDEN-UPS!” to date! I cringe at wgat screw-up Steele will be found Guilty of tomorrow, the next day and everyday thereafter until the GOOD LORD takes him home.:-)
One of them. The Not Guilty one!
So some little hottie took donors to a strip club? Maybe I should have accepted that latest “Businessman of The Year” fundraising letter from the RNC.
How about they reach out to traditional conservatives? Oh never mind, that’d be crazy. Don’t want those kind around, what would the GLBT people think?
Snagged it just before removal!
Yet another Floridiot (Marco Rubio and most Florida Freepers are NOT Floridiots, btw).
Ding! I think we have a winner on what went down here.
Agree completely with your take on this.
And I’m more than OK with using it as an excuse to get rid of Steele. Perhaps bring in Herman Cain?
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