“she can do what her best instincts tell her to do.”
Is there any truth to the report I read (I don’t remember where), that the RNC authorized her to spend $25,000 for her wardrobe, but she had staffers buying stuff from NeimanMarcus and Sax on their personal credit cards for later reimbursement to the tune of over $100,000. The same report said she spent $40,000 on her husband. Reportedly the RNC was sending staff to Alaska to get the clothing back to sell or give to charity. How did that turn out?
All bogus. The Republican National Committee spent the money for the clothes to fill out her wardrobe. She had no say in the matter. After the campaign she returned to the RNC all the clothes that weren’t hers-end of story. And with the press following her all over the place how did she escape their notice and go on a shopping spree without being noticed by a prying reporter or reporterette. After all in between Sept and Nove 08 she was just the most famous woman in America at the time.
Not true.
She said on Greta that the stuff was mostly already purchased (in different sizes because she wasn’t there to try-on anything) for her before she even arrived at the RNC convention. She said that most of it was returned right away, and the rest was boxed up and sent back—that it never belonged to her. She also said, at the time, that some of it was still in the cargo hold of the campaign bus.
This came from her own mouth—not gossip.
I think that stuff about the “$150,000 clothes” turned out to be a total crock but I haven’t seen anything definitive about it. From what Governor Palin said it was not her choice or doing, it was the RNC with the campaign, and she did not keep any clothes. She needs to make sure that story is put to bed, though, b/c it’s going to keep cropping up and her rivals in the party will try to use it against her.... not to mention the Mediascum and Demagogues.
She didn’t do the shopping, the RNC did the shopping and most of the clothing was already in MN when she arrived for the convention and 1/3 was sent back immediately because it didn’t fit. People really need to quit listening to the MSM.
she needed up to date clothes....she didn't have a rich sugar daddy to support her.....WHAT THE HELL IS THE BIG DEAL?
zero can spend $5million enacting a Greek tragedy farce and no one says anything about that!