Posted on 05/08/2010 4:25:25 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
The Republican National Committee finance chief, the guy in charge of the purse strings when staffers charged nearly $2,000 for "meals" at a Los Angeles bondage-themed club, has been fired.
Rob Bickhart will be replaced by Mary Heitman, former finance director for the Republican Governors Association, Politico reported Friday.
Bickhart's dismissal comes as the RNC tries to lure back donors who were put off by reports earlier this year of the after-hours outing to Voyeur West Hollywood by the Young Eagles, the invitation-only group of young donors to the Republican Party. In March, the RNC fired Allison Meyers, the staffer who approved the nightclub expense.
On Friday, RNC Chairman Michael Steele also let go deputy finance director Debbie LeHardy, according to Politico. LeHardy was reimbursed for purchases at clothing stores that were listed as "office supplies" in financial disclosure documents.
They guy could have been looking for Republican votes. That is the excuse I would have used. /sarc.
Steele did the right thing.
No. He’s a racist. Steele’s only pretending to be black. He’s really a Republican racist (sorry for redundancy)./sarc
Steele needs to fire himself now.
The Republican part is just as stupid as the Democrat party.
Michael Steele will have done the right thing when he resigns, and not a single moment before.
If the buck doesn’t stop with him, then he isn’t much of a leader, is he?
Jesus said to go where the sinners are.
Where do we get these idiots from? Is that a requirment to be in Politics?
I don’t know what skin color the FC is. It is about time he was fired.
Bondage strip clubs is something that Democrats pay for, not a party that wants conservative, fiscally responsible voters to support them.
Politicians are the privileged class in this thugocracy. Anything they want is perfectly fine, whatever goes. These unfortunate understudies grabbed at their “rewards” a little too soon, before getting ensconced in the club, tough for them. So sad...
There’s bigger transgressions in the republican party. Though this isn’t right either...
Now who’s going to fire Michael Steele?
Yeah, he only be doing Jesus said.
Yes our big tent must serve as a hospital for sinners and not a spa for Saints, I wonder about guys that go to strip clubs. Would not know what to do with a live woman, even if they could find one. Make them give the money back/
barbra ann
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