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Title: RNC shells out $150K for Palin fashion
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www.politico.com
URL Source: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1008/14805.html
Published: Oct 22, 2008
Author: JEANNE CUMMINGS
Post Date: 2008-10-22 01:25:38 by Ferret Mike
Keywords: None
Views: 795
Comments: 42
The Republican National Committee has spent more than $150,000 to clothe and accessorize vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin and her family since her surprise pick by John McCain in late August. According to financial disclosure records, the accessorizing began in early September and included bills from Saks Fifth Avenue in St. Louis and New York for a combined $49,425.74. The records also document a couple of big-time shopping trips to Neiman Marcus in Minneapolis, including one $75,062.63 spree in early September. The RNC also spent $4,716.49 on hair and makeup through September after reporting no such costs in August. The cash expenditures immediately raised questions among campaign finance experts about their legality under the Federal Election Commission's long-standing advisory opinions on using campaign cash to purchase items for personal use. Politico asked the McCain campaign for comment, explicitly noting the $150,000 in expenses for department store shopping and makeup consultation that were incurred immediately after Palin’s announcement. Pre-September reports do not include similar costs. Spokeswoman Maria Comella declined to answer specific questions about the expenditures, including whether it was necessary to spend that much and whether it amounted to one early investment in Palin or if shopping for the vice presidential nominee was ongoing. “The campaign does not comment on strategic decisions regarding how financial resources available to the campaign are spent," she said. But hours after the story was posted on Politico's website and legal issues were raised, the campaign issued a new statement: "With all of the important issues facing the country right now, it’s remarkable that we’re spending time talking about pantsuits and blouses. It was always the intent that the clothing go to a charitable purpose after the campaign," said McCain-Palin spokesperson Tracey Schmitt The business of primping and dressing on the campaign trail has become fraught with political risk in recent years as voters increasingly see an elite Washington out of touch with their values and lifestyles. In 2000, Democrat Al Gore took heat for changing his clothing hues. And in 2006, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) was ribbed for two hair styling sessions that cost about $3,000. Then, there was Democrat John Edwards’ $400 hair cuts in 2007 and Republican McCain’s $520 black leather Ferragamo shoes this year. A review of similar records for the campaign of Democrat Barack Obama and the Democratic National Committee turned up no similar spending. But all the spending by other candidates pales in comparison to the GOP outlay for the Alaska governor whose expensive, designer outfits have been the topic of fashion pages and magazines. What hasn’t been apparent is where the clothes came from – her closet back in Wasilla or from the campaign coffers in Washington. The answer can be found inside the RNC’s September monthly financial disclosure report under “itemized coordinated expenditures.” It’s a report that typically records expenses for direct mail, telephone calls and advertising. Those expenses do show up, but the report also has a new category of spending: “campaign accessories.” September payments were also made to Barney’s New York ($789.72) and Bloomingdale’s New York ($5,102.71). Macy’s in Minneapolis, another store fortunate enough to be situated in the Twin Cities that hosted last summer’s Republican National Convention, received three separate payments totaling $9,447.71. The entries also show a few purchases at Pacifier, a top notch baby store, and Steiniauf & Stroller Inc., suggesting $295 was spent to accommodate the littlest Palin to join the campaign trail. An additional $4,902.45 was spent in early September at Atelier, a high-class shopping destination for men.
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#3. To: Ferret Mike (#0)
I guess she could have shopped at Wal-Mart?? Bill Clinton caught HELL from the MSM for wearing a POS Timex wristwatch in 1992, he was ridiculed for his lack of sophistication and urged to go upscale. At least Sarah Palin dresses in a manner befitting a VP nominee. After all, she doesn't have access to the kind of money that money-bags-Biden has or that Obummer begged from Tony Rizko.
Wow. Goes to show rich lawyers don't need accessorizing and regular folks do. Nothing to see here..move along.
Law Enforcement Against Prohibition "Corporation: An entity created for the legal protection of its human parasites, whose sole purpose is profit and self-perpetuation." © IndieTx Simple minded articles that appeal to the basest of people's pettiness and jealousies, like this one, demonstrate the base mentallity of the author and/or transmitter (Ferret Mike) of it and its sole propaganda purpose. While the U.S. government under the alleged guidance of either party spends countless billions/trillions on killing people around the world and even here at home, only a dupe or infil-traitor would would find this sort of attack useful as poopaganda for influencing others making a conscious decision related to choosing someone capable and worthy of America's trust to run the nation. When either side resorts to shit like this it only demonstrates how far we as a society have fallen. To portray the relevance of $150,000.00 as critical in the election process today only exposes the superficiality of the writer and the reader that finds any merit in the writing. Often times the political hackery (Ferret Mike) rationalize spreading manure over the mushroom heads (ignorant masses) to obtain their vote, and actually violate the very principles they claim (falsely) to maintain. Policies that condone "any means to an end" would include half-truths and bullshit like Palin's wardrobe costs to inject superficial matters into the minds of the not so bright in order to accomplish a particular party's goal of gaining the uninformed vote of someone that these do-gooder assholes claim to protect. The truth is that if the (fake) do-gooders were truly interested in advancing the "victim class'" they would simply spend a little more time expressing the TRUTHS that are REAL and MEANINGFUL rather than subtle covetness. Ferret, whomever is guiding you into the abyss of communistic "ends justify means" philosophy is destroying your soul and any claim to righteousness. Frankly, I'll give you the benefit of the doubt regarding your political position until I see you operating dishonestly like you are with this simple minded attack on the superficial. We (Americans) really have monumental problems that need to be dealt with by qualified statesmen and freedom minded people in general, a re-education process that could actually move us in the direction offering an opportunity to recover from the past 100 years of this type of supeficiality that condones the process and keeps people stuck in a system meant to enslave them (all).
There is no honor in bending one's knee to the banking elites that are robbing the children you claim to love of their future. Soon they'll convince those very same children that you deserve to be eliminated ... and they may be right. Doug Scheidt 10-21-08
imo only, Mike wants to believe the people can change the leader.He thinks Barack will become what the people want him to be. The whole election is a side show to the catastrophic destruction of our nation and our economy.
I'd have to agree with this conclusion. I also think Mike over rates his own involvement, thinking he has some impact on the process or that he might obtain some respect or even a political plum for ignoring reason and supporting an obvious subversive like Obama. (Not that McCain is any less a subversive than Obama.) The Bolshevik Revolution was filled with useful lackies until the coup was complete. Then the higher ranks eliminated the idiots they had used to foment the revolution to begin with ... Mike looks like one of these to me.
There is no honor in bending one's knee to the banking elites that are robbing the children you claim to love of their future. Soon they'll convince those very same children that you deserve to be eliminated ... and they may be right. Doug Scheidt 10-21-08
so we got this big campaign to vilify obama, when the alternative to obama is a confirmed neocon, and if you elect that confirmed neocon, you're locked into more of the same... bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb iran. there is just the slightest chance, worth taking in the face of a lead pipe cinch that mccain is a neocon dingbat, that obama will doublecross his neocon supporters like kristol, just like putin doublecrossed berezovsky. you'd rather sit in the frying pan when there's a remote chance that you'd miss the fire if you jumped out. wonderful
You seem to have a problem with comprehension.
I think you just nailed the sliver of optimistic hope that the people who support Barack Obama are holding on to.
you seem to have a problem with the remote possibility that powell has signed up a significant part of the military that will help obama nationalize the media. remember which oligarch got it in the shorts first from putin?
...and a mighty thin sliver it is...
Once again this is the original post. Concerning MIKE, not Powell or anyone else. Drawing any other inference or conclusion is disingenuous. Many of us here at 4um support no one involved with the system, most of us will not cast a vote for president, inferring such is a childs game practiced by a few that are unable to think for themselves.
it's not my problem that you think no hope is better than a sliver of hope. just for your information, i've voted once, maybe twice, in the 40+ years i've been of voting age... and the time i'm sure about, maybe the second time, i was humoring a gang of friends who were disgusted with reagan, and they more or less frogmarched me to the polls. i might have voted once before that, because i was browbeat into it by my wife. i cannot remember a time in my life when i lived in any political hope... vietnam cured me of that.
I started voting for Ike. I knew then the game was rigged when BOTH so called "parties" offered Ike their party nomination. Truman was shuffled off into retirement. A sure loser was forced into running on the democrat side. For those that were paying attention, the same loser was trotted out for the second go around with Ike. With that fiasco it became apparent to all except the brain dead that there was only one party, that we were voting strictly on the lesser of two evils basis, when actually there was no lesser evil.
and now you're a confirmed no-hoper, and the best you can do is belittle people with hope. nice
No hoper??? I go back to the 1930s, listening to the fireside chats of FDR, when people were enthralled with the man that would save the world. As a child I recall his promises about not sending American boys off to war in foreign lands etc etc. FDR lied, the entire government lied, they were planning and preparing for war all the time. The exact same thing is happening now, McCain or Obama, makes no difference. FDR brought us years of hunger and a terrible war. Truman brought us Korea, Johnson Vietnam, Bush Middle East with countless other affairs. The government is the enemy, not one individual, not a dem or pub, they are all interchangeable.
...which gives you a perfect right to belittle people with political hope.
why you wanna spoil the kids' fun, mr grinch?
meanwhile, after 150k of lipstick, sarah's still a palin.
I have no rights. I am a realist, not an optimist nor pessimist, rather a realist. Supporting any part or person in the system makes one a part of the problem. One needs to reduce the problem to its very basic premise, namely, the government is the problem and supporting the system, maintains the government and the problem. This country was given birth by a Revolution which succeeded, tried to cleanse itself with a Civil War that failed, and now finds itself on the brink of an abyss.
who has a better chance of bring off a revolution that suits you, a confirmed neocon, or a semi-unknown quantity with a racial background that makes him the wildest card yet to come down the political pike...? oh. i forgot. we already had a neocon coup, and you dont seem to like the results of that very much, which must explain why you're belittling a wildcard alternative and backing, by your attempts to degrade the alternative, more of the same old neocon shit. you people dont make any sense.
there's some kind of sickness running through this forum... i dont know if it's racism, or some degradation of spirit the makes you all dogs in a big ugly manger, or what. but you'd think you'd have the decency to let people dream, even if you're no longer capable of dreaming yourselves.
LOL How much did they spend on lipstick?
Antiparty - find out why, think about 'how'
First of all, one has to consider...none of the above... This "government" will do anything to ensure its survival, because it is in their self interest. The Patriot Act and Homeland Security is their insurance policy. We the sheep voting for the lesser of two evils return incumbents at a 95 per cent rate, ensuring a continuous professional politician government. We keep people in office until age 100, some are fixtures for over 50 years, all of which is a disgrace.
How about supporting certain parts of a person? I heard that some of the hard-core conversatives are totally hot over Sarah's bosom, for example. Is her bosom worth supporting? And, if yes, with what?
Antiparty - find out why, think about 'how'
take it easy on cyni. this looks like more of the same to him. he had his heart broken more than once...he's not willing to put it on the line again. otoh, looks like an obama win in the offing. we'll see what the wildcard brings.
i dont know if it's racism, or some degradation of spirit the makes you all dogs in a big ugly manger, or what. but you'd think you'd have the decency to let people dream, even if you're no longer capable of dreaming yourselves. quite a rebuke.
well, it's time for a radical change, then, isnt it? too bad, by your efforts, you are attempting to hamstring the best chance for change, even though it's a tiny sliver of a chance. in the meantime, being the realist you are, you have to face the fact that, no matter who's elected, it's very likely that america will waste its last chance to adjust to diminishing oil supplies, because america is instead attempting to (a) steal oil at gunpoint and (b) secure israel. the only real question in the minds of the israelis, is: did we wait too long to kick the operation off? americans are too befuddled to have any real questions, and israeli americans are looting the dying american empire, the better to buy themselves a refuge of last resort just in case america implodes before israel is secured. in the meantime, seasoned observers such as yourself can think of nothing better to do than belittle people who are still able to hope.
Doesn't know what can be done, if anything, that wouldn't be a wasted effort or a wasted life.
yup. some people never get over heartbreak. too bad they have to throw cold water on anyone whose heart hasnt yet been broken.
there's no sense in trying to demoralize people who are willing to try to fix things, no matter how vain their effort will be. if they fail after having given their best shot, they are more likely to have learned useful lessons... better lessons than they learn from being assaulted by crochety old farts who woke up on christmas morning 50 years ago, only to discover the grinch stole their pearl.
Hamstring???? Not really. Obama will "win" quite handily. Now comes the results... With the results come the responsibility of those that support the system to defend and condone whatever the government does come next January. Continue the endless war in the Middle East???? Remember your Vietnam. Decrease the size of government??? Cut spending or increase taxes???? These and many other factors will then have to be justified by those that have hope and faith in the system. It never fails, half support more war or whatever, the other half deride, been going on for years.
Yeah, the government is the problem, but the American Revolution was founded on a concept of new government. If people have solutions...let's hear them.
abuse of the system could be tolerated as long as the economy was expanding. too bad that expansion was fueled by a resource that now seems to be depleting. now that the handwriting's on the wall, there's more abuse of the system, which has manifested itself in 9/11 and the "war on terror". america might have survived peak oil if all the resources now being wasted on wars for oil and israel had been used instead to transition to more efficient machinery and alternate energy supplies. it's probably too late now to do anything except hunker down, because it seems that the people with the juice have gone into full-tilt loot mode. carter tried to tell us about looming energy problems 40 years ago ---that's when we should have started the transition--- but energy independence would have diminished the importance of the middle east, and israel, and carter only lasted one term. . if peak oil is the real deal, the system is doomed, because we've wasted too much time and money, and there seems to be no inclination to inform people of the problems they will be facing... instead, there's only more looting, and since the government is in the hands of the looters, the government will just naturally grow and assist the looters, unless something radical happens. . so are you a looter, are you just a bitter old man, are you some kind of israeli, a closet neocon? why do you insist on belittling a possible alternative to the confirmed neocon candidate?
why do you insist on belittling a possible alternative to the confirmed neocon candidate? If you want to discuss with me, try to keep the personal part out of the conversation.
you seem to be a reasonably intelligent old man... why dont you do something useful? why dont you start disproving peak oil... seeing as how peak oil was the triggering motive for 9/11? why are you unwilling to let people go through the same process of disillusionment you went through, hopefully with more positive results? why cant you, in all your wisdom, think of anything constructive to do?
My what a double standard.
seems to me that the biggest shortcoming in the american population is their lack of information. you could try educating people about peak oil or global warming, or you could try discrediting peak oil and global warming. you could tell us the history of israel, how it was founded by heroic polak terrorists, and you could tell us how israel came to have a stranglehold on american politics. you could tell us about the history of american mass media, founded by jewish families, still controlled by zionists, and how that plays into americans' lack of information. but no. you, in your wisdom, can think of nothing constructive to do.
You'll notice that your reasoned argument will be ignored under the guise of "personal attcks" or unworthy language" or some such nonsense. And then onward to another thread to spread the "hopelessness".
you'd rather sit in the frying pan when there's a remote chance that you'd miss the fire if you jumped out. wonderful As of 3 Dec, 2008, would you care to retract your statement...and your vote for obamaessiah??? Oh I'm I'm sorry!! Time's up!! But you win the consolation prize: The Big Jew figurine, complete with USA marionette hanging from his hand.
Law Enforcement Against Prohibition RUN SILENT, RUN DEEP Oy/Change/Oy!!!!!
-Schweizerische Schuetzenzeitung (Swiss Shooting Federation) April, 1941
#4. To: Ferret Mike, christine (#0)
review of similar records for the campaign of Democrat Barack Obama and the Democratic National Committee turned up no similar spending.
"There is no 'legitimate' Corporation by virtue of its very legal definition and purpose."
-- IndieTx
#5. To: Ferret Mike, thread (#0)
#6. To: noone222 (#5)
#7. To: angle (#6)
Mike wants to believe the people can change the leader
#8. To: noone222 (#7)
(Edited)
The Bolshevik Revolution was filled with useful lackies until the coup was complete.
#9. To: wadosy (#8)
The Bolshevik Revolution was filled with useful lackies until the coup was complete. Then the higher ranks eliminated the idiots they had used to foment the revolution to begin with ... Mike looks like one of these to me.
#10. To: wadosy (#8)
there's a remote chance that you'd miss the fire if you jumped out.
#11. To: Cynicom (#9)
...comprehension...
#12. To: angle (#10)
I think you just nailed the sliver of optimistic hope that the people who support Barack Obama are holding on to.
#13. To: wadosy (#11)
The Bolshevik Revolution was filled with useful lackies until the coup was complete. Then the higher ranks eliminated the idiots they had used to foment the revolution to begin with ... Mike looks like one of these to me.
#14. To: Cynicom (#13)
(Edited)
#15. To: wadosy (#14)
i cannot remember a time in my life when i lived in any political hope... vietnam cured me of that.
#16. To: Cynicom (#15)
#17. To: wadosy (#16)
#18. To: Cynicom (#17)
...the enemy...
#19. To: Cynicom (#17)
#20. To: Cynicom (#17)
#21. To: wadosy (#18)
...which gives you a perfect right to belittle people with political hope.
#22. To: Cynicom (#21)
(Edited)
#23. To: Cynicom (#21)
#24. To: Ferret Mike (#0)
#25. To: wadosy (#22)
who has a better chance of bring off a revolution that suits you, a confirmed neocon, or a semi-unknown quantity with a racial background that makes him the wildest card yet to come down the political pike...?
#26. To: Cynicom (#21)
Supporting any part or person in the system makes one a part of the problem.
#27. To: wadosy (#22)
#28. To: wadosy (#23)
there's some kind of sickness running through this forum...
#29. To: Cynicom (#25)
(Edited)
This "government" will do anything to ensure its survival, because it is in their self interest.
#30. To: wadosy (#29)
observers such as yourself can think of nothing better to do
#31. To: angle (#27)
he had his heart broken more than once
#32. To: angle (#30)
(Edited)
Doesn't know what can be done, if anything, that wouldn't be a wasted effort or a wasted life.
#33. To: wadosy (#29)
too bad, by your efforts, you are attempting to hamstring the best chance for change, even though it's a tiny sliver of a chance.
#34. To: wadosy (#32)
there's no sense in trying to demoralize people who are willing to try to fix things, no matter how vain their effort will be.
#35. To: Cynicom (#33)
Hamstring????
#36. To: wadosy (#35)
so are you a looter, are you just a bitter old man, are you some kind of israeli, a closet neocon?
#37. To: Cynicom (#36)
(Edited)
#38. To: Cynicom (#36)
If you want to discuss with me, try to keep the personal part out of the conversation.
#39. To: Cynicom (#36)
(Edited)
#40. To: wadosy (#39)
#41. To: wadosy, ALL, christine, lodwick, cynicom, old friend, rotara, x-15 (#8)
(Edited)
WADOSY:
there is just the slightest chance, worth taking in the face of a lead pipe cinch that mccain is a neocon dingbat, that obama will doublecross his neocon supporters like kristol, just like putin doublecrossed berezovsky.
"Corporation: An entity created for the legal protection of its human parasites, whose sole purpose is profit and self-perpetuation." ~~ IndieTx
#42. To: IndieTX, wadosy (#41)
-Schweizerische Schuetzenzeitung (Swiss Shooting Federation) April, 1941
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