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It's Palin's fault that she shouldn't have been so stupid to put it in the states tab from an ethical standpoint. This is a clear case of government waste. However there are certain procedures that she'd have to go through in order to spend excessively on the hotels and expenditures for her children. Someone authorized it.
here just too remind you where 150,000 of US taxpayers money went,Quote:
Originally Posted by justanotherbozo
3 times more money than the majority of americans will ever make in thier entire life !
Sarah Palin: Hockey Mom with $150,000 Wardrobe - Associated Content
close windowThe latest breaking news, down the stretch in the campaign for leadership of the Free World, is that the Republican National Committee has spent $150,000 since Labor Day to keep Sarah Palin and her family looking sharp.
This an odd revelation. Palin primped herself up well enough to win the Alaska governor's election, obtaining her wardrobe from her own family budget. But the story must be true. This vital news first was reported by Politico.com, which is among the minority of political websites because it actually is accurate and balanced.
Palin's people issued no denials in response to the Politico.com account, no further decrying of the liberal media. It would be difficult, after all, to describe the media as "elite" after spending $150,000 on clothing and accessories and hair.
Palin spokeswoman Maria Comella absorbed the first battering from the media after Politico.com released its report. She gravely told the assembled reporters, "The campaign does not comment on strategic decisions regarding how financial resources available to the campaign are spent," said Comella, not exactly forthcoming.
A more senior Palin spokeswoman, Tracey Schmidt, decided to bring the wardrobe issue out of the closet.
"With all the important issues facing the country right now, it's remarkable that we're spending time talking about pantsuits and blouses," Schmitt said. This answer is oblivious to the fact that (a) such expenses would violate campaign finance law, and that (b) people who portray Palin as a down-to-earth breath of fresh air may question spending three times as much as an average family's total annual income.
"It was always the intent that the clothing go to a charitable purpose after the campaign," Schmitt added. Now she's talking. Palin's loyalists are very, very loyal, and an auction might raise $15 million, much less $150,000.
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Spending is documented on the Republican National Committee's own campaign finance reports, and so the liberal media did not make this up. The top line item is $75,062 at Neiman Marcus in Minneapolis, which was the site of the GOP National Convention during the first week of September. Next comes $49,425 from Saks Fifth Avenue stores in New York City and St. Louis.
When people spend this much on clothes, don't they usually try them on themselves? However, such a shopping trip by Palin would have attracted media hordes, so somebody in the campaign must have taken her measurements and gone from there. Either that, or Tina Fey tried on the clothes.
Another $4,716 went for Palin's hair and makeup. Even the baby in the family was included, with a combined $250 spent at Pacifier and at Steiniauf & Stroller.
Give Politico.com credit for political balance. Palin was not singled out. Obama wears $4,000 suits and $300 ties, although there is no evidence that the Democratic National Committee foots the bill. Hillary Clinton was mocked for $1,500 hair-doos, and John Edwards for $400 haircuts. Even McCain himself has been striding in $520 Ferragamo leather shoes. And we may recall the 2000 campaign, when Al Gore abruptly and all too obviously began wearing earth tones in a quest to revamp his snobby image.
Amid all of this, the McCain campaign complains that it lacks competitive funds to keep up with Barack Obama's flood of television advertising. How many ads could $150,000 have purchased?
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politico.com/news/stories/1008/14805.html
nypost.com/seven/10222008/news/politics/shop_spree_sarahs_150g_party_clothes_134694.htm
I find it insulting, she outta be shame herselfish :twocents:
Whats that Sarah Palin is saying?! When they asked her about her wardrobe I thought it sounded like she said "Let them eat cake!"
Now when Sarah Palin gives away all her RNC Valentino jackets and Gucci handbags to charity next year, she can claim her charitable donations are $150,000! Ha ha ha ha ha! Maybe Biden should see if the DNC can kick down some Ermenegeldo Zegna suits for him to pass on to Saint Vincent de Paul and boost his charity numbers for ya, P4B!Quote:
Originally Posted by Psycho4Bud
If anyone is interested in picking up some slightly used haute couture, I'd suggest the Wassila Goodwill sometime in mid November! You'll probably meet Tina Fey there looking for some great bargains that are sure to fit perfectly.
I was thinking that maybe Sarah Palin should try to get on the new Paris Hilton reality show on MTV, Paris Hilton's My New BFF. If Paris picked Sarah to be her new BFF, then maybe Paris could give Sarah some shopping tips so that she could learn to keep her expenses down a bit. I mean, Paris Hilton is filthy rich, but even she doesn't blow through $3000 a day on clothes, EVERY SINGLE DAY! Unlike a politician, a billionaire heiress has to live within her means! Ha ha ha ha ha! In Sarah Palin's case, BFF would stand for Buttload of Free Fashions!
I swear to God, if I had $150,000 to spend on clothes, it would last me more than 2 entire lifetimes. What the hell could it all be for? Really. Seriously. I am very curious about this. I want to know how a person could spend that much on clothes, even for an entire famly of people who have to look their very very best every single day. Maybe someone is running some kind of fake budget item thorugh Sarah's clothing expense account, and the money is really to buy weed for RNC accoutants. I certainly hope so.
I wonder if any of the "elites" spend $3,000 every day on clothes, or if that is only something that goes on in the "real America."
You can go to Wal*Mart and get a month's worth of professional looking outfits for under 10,000, so it's not a question of "She would have been made fun of" or anything like that, it's the gross contradiction of someone running as the average person who's been abducted from her hockey mom duties (she's been a politician for what, a decade? She's no longer anything close to a regular person anymore) to run for vice-president spends 150,000 of her party's money to feel like a rock star.
If I were a Republican donor, I'd be pissed. Really.
I also wonder how much Obama has spent on them tailored suits he's always wearing. Seems funny that when it's about the RNC you find this type of thing as an "issue" but in regards to subjects like Rev. Wright and William Ayers you don't.:wtf:Quote:
Originally Posted by dragonrider
........and still no mention of "Cheap Joe Bidens" charitable contributions.
Have a good one!:s4:
first, to veggi, ths money that was spent on her cloths wasn't
taxpayer money so it didn't cost you a dime unless you voluntarily
donated to the republican party.
also, she isn't keeping those cloths forever, nor is she just gonna
bag them up and toss them in the Goodwill bin. she gets to wear
them for a week and then thay are stored so they can be auctioned
off later. they will probably bring in more than they cost and that
money will be donated to charity.
lets try to be fair and understand that the Palins are the only ones
in this race that aren't millionaires.
oh yeah, Jaysin, if they had gone to Walmart and spent the entire
$150,000.00 they'd still look like rubes in the eyes of the media.
and happiest, why don't you eat cake, or maybe you
should stop eating cake
and anyone that wants to make an issue about her traveling with
her family should remember that she sold the former Governor's
private jet, i suppose she could have kept it and then no-one
would be talking about the cost of her having her family with her,
but that wouldn't have been the right thing for Alaskans.
and why is it that no-one here is outraged at what a cheap prick
Joe Biden is? think about it, out of 2.4 million, he gives $3,600.00,
what the fuck is that? i guess, in truth, he isn't very patriotic.
thanks for the heads up boss
why dont you go to the dnc and show where obama and biden used campaign money to buy 150k worth of clothesQuote:
Originally Posted by Psycho4Bud
this thread is about waist of money not ayres or wright
it wasn't 'campaign' money dude, and it wasn't taxpayer moneyQuote:
Originally Posted by texas grass
either, it was money donated to the RNC by people that want America
to remain free. and i guess you didn't bother to read the previous post
explaining how those cloths will be auctioned off for more than they cost,
with all proceeds going to charity. so it wasn't a waste.
oh, and just so you know, 'waist' is where you put your belt, and
'waste' is what it is reading your words