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myLot reputation of 86/100. laglen (7665)   ranked 91 out of 3,985 in politics 2 years ago

Democrats love to paint their Republican adversaries as the fat-cat high-rollers, pinstriped corporate titans with a penchant for the good life. But recent campaign documents show Democrats also harbor a taste for the finer things.

Expenditure reports filed with the Federal Election Commission show the Democratic National Committee last fall spent more than $21,543 at a Boston Red Sox game and another $17,125 at a Dallas Cowboys game. DNC officials confirm the events as fundraisers, held in a Fenway Park restaurant and a Cowboys Stadium luxury box, respectively.

Recent reports of lavish spending at the Republican National Committee, including a now infamous visit to a Los Angeles strip club bankrolled by the RNC, have sparked intense scrutiny of both parties’ spending practices.

The RNC tried to turn the tables today by pointing reporters to a long list of high dollar DNC events, as well as hotel and limousine bills.

The DNC spent $13,316 on a party for outgoing chairman Howard Dean at Lucky Strike, a Washington bowling alley, in January 2009. Another $16,275 was doled out for a DNC staff holiday party at the Washington night club Josephine four months ago.

“What you will notice is that there are no expenses on here related to sex clubs,” said DNC Spokesman Hari Sevugan. “The DNC, unlike the RNC, does not conduct business while watching women engaged in lesbian bondage scenes…Unlike RNC expenses for redecorating the chairman's office or table service at a bondage club, these expenses were not for personal use but for the actual functioning of the party, and activities that added to the coffers, rather than emptying them.”

RNC Spokesman Doug Heye shot back: “This is a conversation the DNC needs to have with itself. Just yesterday on MSNBC, [DNC Chairman and former Virginia Governor] Tim Kaine said, ‘If we see folks doing things of this kind, expenditures that are over the top and super-luxurious, they ain't staying here. We are in a tough time.’ Yet we see that is clearly not true.”

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1. myLot reputation of 99/100. nyhollyjean (2254)   ranked 7 out of 3,985 in politics   2 years ago

Hi laglen!

As I am neither a Democrat or a Republican--I guess I can say that this topic is purely a case of "the pot calling the kettle black!"

It doesn't make any difference which party the politicians are from--imho--they're all the same. A bunch of greedy, self-absorbed puppets!

Somehow, we've got to put a stop to the corruption and the greed. Every taxpayer should be ranting! The sad part to me is, that this sort of thing has been going on all over the world--and believe it or not, the USA is considered to be one of the less corrupted countries!

Instead of pointing fingers at each other, like little children--the politicians need to start acting like the responsible, trust worthy, moral people we had voted for them to be.


myLot reputation of 86/100. laglen (7665)   ranked 91 out of 3,985 in politics  2 years ago

You are so right. I think the best way to combat this is by keeping money out of their hands!


myLot reputation of 99/100. nyhollyjean (2254)   ranked 7 out of 3,985 in politics  2 years ago

Many thanks for the BR, my friend! Sorry, but I keep forgetting to check that box, or I would have thanked you sooner! :-)

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2. myLot reputation of 83/100. irisheyes (3349)   ranked 213 out of 3,985 in politics   2 years ago

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myLot reputation of 86/100. laglen (7665)   ranked 91 out of 3,985 in politics  2 years ago

But we really do not know if that staffer ever preached. I think wasting money is an equal opportunity issue and they are all guilty


myLot reputation of 83/100. irisheyes (3349)   ranked 213 out of 3,985 in politics  2 years ago

The fact that that staffer belongs to a part ythat preaches is enough for the hypocrisy element to slink in and it makes it two sins with Hypocrisy the worse of the two.


myLot reputation of 86/100. laglen (7665)   ranked 91 out of 3,985 in politics  2 years ago

preaching is an equal opp. It is NOT just the Republicans. That is a fairy tale.

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3. myLot reputation of 87/100. jb78000 (3486)   ranked 80 out of 3,985 in politics   2 years ago

the moral of this story is don't allow little kiddies to be in charge of the household budget. if they want to spend money on parties and icecream (or to look at pretty ladies not wearing many clothes) then they should get paperrounds and earn it themselves.


myLot reputation of 86/100. laglen (7665)   ranked 91 out of 3,985 in politics  2 years ago

so true. It bears repeating, we can just stop donating. political committees are just money pits.

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