AP INVESTIGATION: Alaska funded Palin kids' travel

[shadow9d9]

Originally posted by: Doc Savage Fan

Originally posted by: shadow9d9

Originally posted by: Doc Savage Fan

Originally posted by: jonks
slow news day

No nit too small to pick for the Palin haters.

Yeah, it is cool to abuse your taxpayers... you probably stay at $700 a night hotels and bill the taxpayers too right? Everyone gets to use $20k as if it were nothing on the taxpayers' dimes...

Nothing as ignorant as a Palin ignorant.

Maybe we should look and see if Chelsea paid her way or if her father abused the taxpayers. Do you hold Clinton to the same standard as Palin on this issue or is this really just about spewing more partisan hatred. Tell me o wise one?

Absolutely... but it would have to be about Obama or Biden. They are the ones in this race.

 

[SP33Demon]

This Palin circus can't end soon enough.

 

[Genx87]

Originally posted by: Robor
This doesn't seem like a big issue to me. Sure it sounds like a lot of money but anyone who has traveled for work and seen the bills knows it's expensive when you start adding up airfare, lodging, transportation, meals, etc. Most people don't get to bring their kids but most people aren't governors. What is the usual behavior regarding a family traveling with a governor and what's the average a governor spends on travel?

If it is official business it is legal and ethical. Pelosi had an issue a few years ago where she wanted to fly her family and friends to San Fran on an airforce 757 when there was little to no govt business being done.

Even with the cost incurred by the kids it is still a lot less than the previous administrations flying costs due to not flying a personal jet and taking an airline or using a charter.

 

[SarcasticDwarf]

So here's my question: What about every other governor in the US? Aren't they all doing the same as well?

 

[Doc Savage Fan]

Originally posted by: SarcasticDwarf
So here's my question: What about every other governor in the US? Aren't they all doing the same as well?

Lol...like that matters. Thanks for the laugh.

 

[Red Dawn]

Originally posted by: SarcasticDwarf
So here's my question: What about every other governor in the US? Aren't they all doing the same as well?

Are they touting themselves as Reformers?

 

[Doc Savage Fan]

Originally posted by: Red Dawn

Originally posted by: SarcasticDwarf
So here's my question: What about every other governor in the US? Aren't they all doing the same as well?

Are they touting themselves as Reformers?

Like Pelosi?

 

[DaveSimmons]

Originally posted by: SarcasticDwarf
So here's my question: What about every other governor in the US? Aren't they all doing the same as well?

If someone is an insider, corruption is a given.

You only need to look at the ones claiming to be outsider maverickys.

 

[Red Dawn]

Originally posted by: Doc Savage Fan

Originally posted by: Red Dawn

Originally posted by: SarcasticDwarf
So here's my question: What about every other governor in the US? Aren't they all doing the same as well?

Are they touting themselves as Reformers?

Like Pelosi?

Who elected her Governor?

 

[Doc Savage Fan]

Originally posted by: Red Dawn

Originally posted by: Doc Savage Fan

Originally posted by: Red Dawn

Originally posted by: SarcasticDwarf
So here's my question: What about every other governor in the US? Aren't they all doing the same as well?

Are they touting themselves as Reformers?

Like Pelosi?

Who elected her Governor?

Surely my point was not lost on you.

 

[Red Dawn]

Originally posted by: Doc Savage Fan

Originally posted by: Red Dawn

Originally posted by: Doc Savage Fan

Originally posted by: Red Dawn

Originally posted by: SarcasticDwarf
So here's my question: What about every other governor in the US? Aren't they all doing the same as well?

Are they touting themselves as Reformers?

Like Pelosi?

Who elected her Governor?

Surely my point was not lost on you.

So you are saying that Palin's as big a hypocrite as Pelosi? I'm cool with that. Frankly I think if Pelosi ran for VP touting herself as a Reformer it would be utter bullshit too.

 

[heyheybooboo]

Originally posted by: SarcasticDwarf
So here's my question: What about every other governor in the US? Aren't they all doing the same as well?

Tax Profs Agree: Gov. Palin's Tax Returns Are Wrong

Jack Bogdanski (Lewis & Clark) & Bryan Camp (Texas Tech) have independently reviewed the tax issues raised by the release of Gov. Palin's 2006 and 2007 tax returns and financial disclosure form, as well as the remarkable opinion letter issued from Washington D.C. tax lawyer Roger M. Olsen. Jack and Bryan conclude that there are serious errors in Gov. Palin's returns as filed and that she and her husband owe tens of thousands of dollars in additional taxes.

Jack Bogdanski, There's No Debate: Palins Owe Thousands in Back Taxes:

There is no serious debate (at least, none that has been brought to our attention) about the fact that at least the amounts paid for the children's travel -- $24,728.83 in 2007, according to the Washington Post -- are taxable. The campaign's tax lawyer has got at least that much of the law, and perhaps more, wrong. ... The Palins, who had their tax returns done by HR Block, simply got it wrong. And the fact that the state payroll office got it wrong, too, doesn't erase the Palins' unpaid tax liability.

 

[Budmantom]

Can you leftists stay on the issues for 5 minutes?

 

[T2T III]

Originally posted by: Baked

GOP spent $150,000 in donations on Palin's look

By JIM KUHNHENN, Associated Press Writer

Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Republican vice presidential candidate, Alaska Gov. Sarah... Republican vice presidential candidate, Alaska Gov. Sarah...

(10-22) 08:58 PDT WASHINGTON (AP) --

When the Republican Party decided to coordinate expenses with John McCain's presidential campaign, who knew it would be color coordinated.

The Republican National Committee spent about $150,000 on clothing, hair styling, makeup and other "campaign accessories" in September for the McCain campaign after Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin joined the ticket as his running mate.

The McCain campaign now says the clothing will go to a "charitable purpose" after the campaign.

The expenses include $75,062 spent at Neiman Marcus in Minneapolis Minn., and $41,850 in St. Louis in early September. The committee also reported spending $4,100 for makeup and hair consulting. The expenses were first reported by Politico.com.

"With all of the important issues facing the country right now, it's remarkable that we're spending time talking about pantsuits and blouses," said McCain spokeswoman Tracey Schmitt, who has been traveling with Palin. "It was always the intent that the clothing go to a charitable purpose after the campaign."

In 2007, Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards sparked Internet derision and jokes from late-night TV comics after his campaign for the party's nomination paid for two $400 haircuts by a stylist from Beverly Hills, Calif. His campaign said the bill was paid by the campaign by mistake and that Edwards would reimburse the campaign.

The RNC has been helping the McCain campaign financially now that McCain is locked into spending only $84 million for the fall campaign under his agreement to accept public financing. Barack Obama, the Democratic nominee, chose not to participate in the public system and raised a whopping $150 million in September.

The RNC is allowed to spend up to $19 million in "coordinated expenses" with the campaign. In September, it spent a a total of $4.4 million. The clothing and styling was part of that, but most was spent on postage for campaign mailings.

So why did the RNC and not McCain's committee pay for the accessories?

Federal campaign finance law prohibits the use of candidate campaign funds for personal use, including clothes. But a quirk in the law has no such restriction on the use of party money for such expenses.

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Who paid for Joe "plugs" Biden's baldness treatments? Also, what about his botox that keeps his forehead tight? Were these covered by himself, the campaign, or the DNC?

 

[Doc Savage Fan]

Originally posted by: Red Dawn

Originally posted by: Doc Savage Fan

Originally posted by: Red Dawn

Originally posted by: Doc Savage Fan

Originally posted by: Red Dawn

Originally posted by: SarcasticDwarf
So here's my question: What about every other governor in the US? Aren't they all doing the same as well?

Are they touting themselves as Reformers?

Like Pelosi?

Who elected her Governor?

Surely my point was not lost on you.

So you are saying that Palin's as big a hypocrite as Pelosi? I'm cool with that. Frankly I think if Pelosi ran for VP touting herself as a Reformer it would be utter bullshit too.

I don't like Palin and I think she was a poor choice. Pelosi touted herself as a Reformer when she took leadership in the House...if you're looking for hypocrites, she takes the cake in that department. But it's only BS if she was running for VP? You're making a distinction I can't quite follow.

 

[Red Dawn]

Originally posted by: Doc Savage Fan

Originally posted by: Red Dawn

Originally posted by: Doc Savage Fan

Originally posted by: Red Dawn

Originally posted by: Doc Savage Fan

Originally posted by: Red Dawn

Originally posted by: SarcasticDwarf
So here's my question: What about every other governor in the US? Aren't they all doing the same as well?

Are they touting themselves as Reformers?

Like Pelosi?

Who elected her Governor?

Surely my point was not lost on you.

So you are saying that Palin's as big a hypocrite as Pelosi? I'm cool with that. Frankly I think if Pelosi ran for VP touting herself as a Reformer it would be utter bullshit too.

I don't like Palin and I think she was a poor choice. Pelosi touted herself as a Reformer when she took leadership in the House...if you're looking for hypocrites, she takes the cake in that department. But it's only BS if she was running for VP? You're making a distinction I can't quite follow.

Hey I had no vote in her becoming Speaker of the House.

 

[ohnoes]

Originally posted by: SarcasticDwarf
So here's my question: What about every other governor in the US? Aren't they all doing the same as well?

I don't think anyone knows. The previous governor of Alaska has said that he doesn't usually bring his family on his trips, and that the times he did, he did not expense their travel.

 

[BoomerD]

Originally posted by: Budmantom
Can you leftists stay on the issues for 5 minutes?

You don't consider the possible VP of these United States being a tax cheat an issue?
Wow...too much bud, man?