Let’s Have Another Round Of RNC “Office Supplies”

Lindsay Beyerstein dug a bit deeper into the Republican National Committee’s expense report–the one with the “meals” at the lesbian bondage-themed nightclub–and found some questionable categorization.

Listed on the report in the category of “office supplies” are purchases from a New England winery and a Capitol Hill liquor store, as well as more than $3,800 from a Florida clothing store. The category of “meals” also seems to extend to the sartorial, with a $450 purchase from a high-end Manhattan boutique — one that has no restaurant or take-out shop on the premises — falling into that category, as listed on the RNC’s reports to the FEC. That purchase, as well as one for more than $500 from the Florida clothing store, are attributed to RNC Deputy Finance Director Debbie LeHardy, who, according to the report, was reimbursed for them.

Read the whole story here and you can find out about the “meals” at a fly fishing store and a costume jewelry/hand bag/make-up boutique. So good.

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  • nflfoghorn

    Obvious that they were trying to itemize useless purchases under “meals”…but is it even worthy of “gotcha” journalism?
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    Meanwhile, back in FL the GOP can’t seem to get its bribes straight:
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    http://jacksonville.com/news/florida/2010-03-31/story/former-state-gop-chairman-under-criminal-investigation

  • gysgt213

    Bout time to let this story go Michael. I’m sure if we looked through Time’s employees expensing we would find some questionable stuff too, just as we would for almost every single organization that ever existed. This was always “in another news” story to begin with. But bottom line this is between the RNC and its donors and so far no one has gotten physically hurt. You might say there is a get rid of Michael Steele angle to it, but the rest of this is kind of boring.
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    Now how about that Catholic Church?
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  • grape_crush

    …you can find out about the “meals” at a fly fishing store…

    It’s for meals…for fish, which are then caught and eaten by people. Pretty creative use of the expense account, hey?

    Unless the GOPer in question is bypassing the whole middlefish and just eating the worms and crickets directly.

  • Paul-no not that one

    Were there any applicable laws broken or is this just for tittering purposes?

  • newfreedomblog

    Here you go Mikey, chew on this fat for awhile.
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    “Rome, Italy, Mar 31, 2010 / 11:47 am (CNA).- Noted Italian exorcist Father Gabriele Amorth, commented this week that the recent defamatory reporting on Pope Benedict XVI, especially by the New York Times, was “prompted by the devil.”

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    http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/satan_behind_media_attacks_on_the_pope_asserts_italian_exorcist/
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    Perhaps Father Gabriele Amorth will invoke some demon to jump down inside your pants and turn you into some weird Transvestite.

  • newfreedomblog

    More evidence of the soon to be dead, dinosaur media.
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    http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/02/business/media/02tele.html
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    What’s it like to work for a company like TIME.rag.com? Do you feel like an Enquirer Reporter yet?

  • stuartzechman

    Perhaps Lindsay Beyerstein could have “dug a bit deeper” into Federal District Judge Vaughn Walker’s recent ruling on the criminality of the NSA’s warrant-less surveillance program.
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    Of course, that would require of some reporters (and editors) that they expend more effort than to carefully read Democratic operatives’ oppo emails, and that they actually validate their trite and phony justifications of anonymous sourcing (by convincing security-state apparatchiks to become whistle-blowers on the record).
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    The RNC’s expenses do make for a decent scale-balancer to which certain journalists can refer when they recite conservative talking points in the future about waste and fraud being the sole product of government programs, though, so one can understand just how valuable this story is –to journos, not readers, obviously.

  • gysgt213

    Hee hee hee hee!

  • newfreedomblog

    THIS is even MORE interesting:
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    “Doctor tells Obama supporters: Go elsewhere for health care”

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    http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/os-mount-dora-doctor-tells-patients-go-aw20100401,0,6040296,full.story
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    Damn I am glad I didn’t vote for the baffoon formerly named Barry Soetoro.

  • grape_crush

    …the recent defamatory reporting on Pope Benedict XVI, especially by the New York Times, was “prompted by the devil.
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    If you are a very religious person, I guess you would say that it was Ol’ Scratch that prompted those priests to molest those children and prompted those bishops cover it up. Any reporting considered ‘defamatory’ would not have occurred without those prior bad acts.
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    Of course, to free-dumb-log, it’s the messenger’s fault.

  • nflfoghorn

    You’re about two threads late, Rust-eze. And your vote didn’t stop the “baffoon” from his goal, either.

  • afguy

    Funny, but when I saw the reference to “meals” from a clothing store, the image of “edible undies” sprang to mind.
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    Given that the buyer was a female GOP operative, am I too far off-base here?

  • nflfoghorn

    Heard this on [non-hate-filled] talk radio: Why’s the only RNC person fired for this fiasco female??

  • nflfoghorn

    I don’t get why any church would continue to have an enabler as its leader. Especially one that thru its tendency to MSU [make stuff up] to defend its beliefs prevents priests from marrying and almost forces them to act unnaturally (although pedophilia is widespread, the Catholic Church is a pretty good hiding place for child abusers because of this).

  • jnb987

    “baffoon” obviously is a portmanteau of “buffoon” and “baboon”, so it’s both a personal attack and a racist one.

    That is, if trolls know what portmanteaus are. I don’t know if they’ve gotten that far in their “…for Dummies” handbook.

  • ohiolib

    it’s also possible, jnb, that he just can’t spell/type.

  • grape_crush

    I don’t get why any church would continue to have an enabler as its leader.
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    Well, here’s a funny and offensive and Not-Not-Not Safe For Work* perspective on that (give it a minute):

    *I added the extra ‘Nots’ fot very good reasons.

  • Ivy_B

    Now that (9.1) is the only question worth raising about this past sell by date story.

  • deconstructiva

    Paging Exiled: please come here and hijack the thread to have the badly-needed foaming-at-the-mouth shoutfest over the recent Catholic Church revelations …at least until lovely Amy writes a new post to do that for us.

  • http://erieangel.wordpress.com erieangel

    I would think large donors would like to know there money is going into private charter jets, wines, and fishing supplies. (I still can’t wrap my head around that one). And I’m talking donors to both parties.

    What gets me is that the RNC is caught misspending (its called MISAPPROPRIATION) donor money and people shrug it off as if its nothing and get upset with the messenger. These same people would be having a hissy fit if the same were occuring within the DNC.

    I’m not saying its not happening in the DNC. They just haven’t been caught misappropriating any funds.

    The heads of neither party deserves to live large off the generousity of donors. The FEC should audit all books, from all organized political parties and find out just how deep this type of corruption goes.

  • shepherdwong

    “Damn I am glad I didn’t vote for the baffoon formerly named Barry Soetoro.”
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    Didn’t you vote for George Bush?! Twice!?!
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    Talk about a buffoon. Bush too.

  • Ivy_B

    The expenditures are public because of forms that each party must file. After all the bad publicity, the RNC released a list of expenditures for the DNC which Jay posted the other day. There was nothing inappropriate, which is why you haven’t heard a lot about it.

  • bobcn1

    ‘Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.’
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    I guess, due to their new found fishing skills, they won’t need to file any more meal expenses.

  • mikew67

    Large week for Michael Steele this week…

    Swaggart and Hugh Grant emcee next GOP fundraiser;
    Lordy, lordy, we won’t waste your fool’s tiding on sex! ;^)

    Balkingpoints / www

  • Cliff

    So did anyone catch the tags for this post?
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    Is TIME really making “lesbian bondage” a searchable Swampland topic? Really?
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    Are you that strapped for cash that you have to try to draw in the precious porn bot hits?

  • sacredh

    My wife called me upstairs last night to watch a segment she had recorded yesterday from the Cafferty File on CNN. A commentor on his blog said the GOP was into bondage because they didn’t get their asses beat enough in 2008.

  • nibblybits

    Hmmm. I thought there might be a post about the jobs numbers from Friday morning — it’s certainly worth discussing 162K jobs added in March and the different ways to interpret the details — but nothing here, despite how this beginning of a trend of adding jobs will impact the fall elections. I moseyed over to the business blogs to see if Justin Fox and Friends had anything, and nothing there either.

  • http://theblindspotsofgod.wordpress.com lawyermommy

    This is getting pettier by the minute and more boring by the day.

    Many of the folks on both sides of the aisle spend money on questionable items. These folks were caught. Enough already, let it not appear that “we” are joining with them in this Republican campaign of calumny, pettiness and fear.

    What next, a post titled “na na na na na”?? We gotcha?? :)

    It’s all nonsense news and barely tangentially related to the issues of the day.

    The main issue I want out in the open is WHY the public (according to the hundreds of thousands polled lol) seem to be buying into the demonizing of our President and WHAT has the media done to make the truth known about the rumor mill that is the FOX news and the party they control, the Republicans.

    Republican party=Muppets of Fox News! Michael Steele=Token Black “leader” who is now a near fatal liability to the Grand Old party of Lily whiteness and downtrodden women. Yes, it is my opinion that Republican women are not very important as a whole to THEIR party.

    Wistfully hilarious indeed. *Sigh*

    LM
    http://theblindspotsofgod.wordpress.com/network-security-criminals-can-crash-planes/

  • 3xfire3

    According to a recent survey I read Conservative women are very active in the Tea Party Movement. Women made up more than than 50% of the movement and made up something like 60% of the leadership positions.
    I’m always amazed how women’s libbers will support any women’s rights as long as there not a Republican or Conservative.
    It illustrates how corrupt and hypocritical the women’s rights movements are in this country.

  • 3xfire3

    Michael,
    Congratulations on another earth shattering story.
    You sure work hard to find dirt on those evil Republicans.
    I guess you could not find any National or World events more important to write about today.

    Michael, I know you normally only answer questions on comments made by liberals on this site but could you make one exception and answer a question from me?

    Do you consider it fair that your stories on this site are negative towards republicans and conservatives about 90% of the time compared to negative about Democrats and liberals about 1%?
    Is there a reason you choose to bias your writing to this level?

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