More disturbing:
What the hell is a deputy chief of staff doing eating alone at Chez Lucienne? Seriously, congressional staff don’t get paid crap, even if they are fairly high up there. It’s one thing that he develop a taste for Chez Lucienne, with all the wining and dining that influence peddlers do... but how can he afford to eat there so easily that he does so ON HIS OWN?
Come on folks, even if you find yourself in a situation where you HAVE to eat out alone... maybe between connections or meetings, or something... isn’t that when you eat the CHEAPEST food? You get fast food, instead of sit-down dining? OK, I’ll admit on a couple occasions, when I was young and took public transportation, I treated myself as a break between switching from Amtrak to Greyhound, but that’s not what’s happening here.
This is a guy who probably makes $50,000... and he regularly plunks $40 a meal? Methinks he must have a side source of income that’s probably not very ethical.
(And yeah, Legislative Assistants make $20,000.)