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Kuros
Joined: 27 Apr 2004
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I really don't think this is that bad. She disclosed the information properly. If Alaska wants the money back, it can take it from her. Legislature? Nah, I don't think Alaska cares, what with it rolling in oil windfalls she has negotiated.
I'm a little more worried about some of her other skeletons, her lack of experience, her lack of knowledge, and her general stances on the issues. |
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Gatsby
Joined: 09 Feb 2007
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| Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2008 12:45 pm Post subject: |
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The Huffington Post has a slide show of Palin fashions. Look for the second to the last, of Palin in an Alaska supermarket, pre-campaign. Yccchhh.
Remember the beehive hairdo? Gone. At a price: $13,000 a month.
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Will Palin's Make-up Artist Add to Extreme Makeover Woes?
The focus on Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin has shifted from her policy positions to her makeup and clothing purchases. (AP Photo/Sara D. Davis)
John McCain's makeup is right out of "American Idol." Running mate Sarah Palin's is so "So You Think You Can Dance" -- and so much more expensive.
McCain's September payments of $8,672.55 to "American Idol" make-up artist Tifanie White, who has also worked on the reality dance show "So You Think You Can Dance," are a drop in the bucket on the campaign's beautification front compared to the GOP vice presidential nominee.
The Sleuth has learned that Palin's high-paid traveling make-up artist is Amy Strozzi, who was nominated for an Emmy Award for her work as head of makeup on "So You Think You Can Dance." Strozzi was paid $13,200 by the McCain-Palin campaign last month alone, according to the campaign's latest financial disclosure report filed this week..... |
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/sleuth/2008/10/httpwwwpoliticocomnewsstories1.html?hpid=artslot
Now we know why Palin was against the robocalls before she was for them.
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G.O.P. Consultant Reimbursed for Palin Shopping Spree
By Michael Luo AND Leslie Wayne
Jeff Larson is a prominent Republican consultant whose firm has been tied to the onslaught of negative robocalls from Senator John McCain�s campaign.
Mr. Larson was also the chief executive of the local host committee for the Republican National Convention.
Now it appears that Mr. Larson may have been the personal shopper for Gov. Sarah Palin�s lavish shopping spree � or at least he initially picked up the tab.
Federal Election Commission records show that Mr. Larson was reimbursed by the Republican National Committee in September for more than $130,000 in purchases at Saks Fifth Avenue, Neiman Marcus, Macy�s, Barney�s New York, and Atelier New York, a men�s clothing store....
The full shopping list for Ms. Sarah Palin and her family, according to records of the Federal Election Commission, looks like this:
� $75,062.63 spent at Neiman Marcus on Sept. 10.
� $41,850.72 to Saks Fifth Avenue in New York on Sept. 10.
� $7,575.02 to Saks Fifth Avenue in St. Louis on Sept. 10.
� $5,102.71 to Bloomingdale�s in New York on Sept. 10.
� $789.72 to Barney�s New York on Sept. 10.
� Charges of $4,396.94 and $512.92 at Macy�s in Minneapolis on Sept. 10.
� $4,537.85 to Macy�s in Minneapolis on Sept. 22.
� $349.50 to Lord & Taylor in New York on Sept. 25.
� $4,902.08 to Atelier New York, a men�s clothing boutique, on Sept. 10.
� Two separate charges of $98 to Pacifier, a high-end baby store in Minneapolis, on Sept. 10 and Sept. 25.
� $98.50 to Steinlauf & Stoller, a sewing supply store, in New York on Sept. 25.
� $133 to the Gap in Minneapolis on Sept. 25.
The money for the clothing came out of the budget of the Republican National Committee�s co-ordinated campaign fund, not the McCain campaign, an an important legal distinction, said Kenneth Gross, a campaign finance expert at Skadden Arps in Washington.... |
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/22/gop-consultant-reim0bursed-for-palin-shopping-spree/?hp
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Still, voters must find it unfathomable for Palin, who has been presented as a woman �like us,� to spend that kind of money on clothes in these difficult financial times, to see her speaking so passionately about Joe the Plumber while plumbing campaign coffers for Valentino jackets and pencil skirts. And yet, they�ve eaten it up, tittering on chat sites about Palin�s Kawasaki eyeglass frames and her Naughty Monkey red peep-toe pumps.
Palin�s spokewoman is saying this is much ado about nothing, that we should be talking about more important issues. But can you imagine the outcry if it were revealed that Hilary Clinton�s rainbow of pantsuits was paid for by campaign contributions? Or if college kids� $50 checks to the Biden/Obama campaign were putting those men in $5,000 custom suits? (Obama�s suits are by Hart Schaffner Marx out of Chicago, and cost in the $1,500 range.).... |
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/alltherage/2008/10/palins-economic.html
I'd been wondering about the suits. All considering, $1,500 for a suit to campaign in seems reasonable, especially if you are hard to fit. They look just right.
The best line from the McCain campaign was that they plan to throw all Palin's clothes in the Goodwill bin, or something, at the end of the campaign. How nice, considering that many Americans are now buying their clothes there, thanks to Bush's tax cuts for the rich economic stimulus plan. |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2008 1:58 pm Post subject: |
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| I personally prefer Chris Buckley's comment about dating a super model. Sooner or later they start talking. That has been Palin's problem all along. It doesn't matter how many Chanel suits they put on her, sooner or later she starts talking. |
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canuckistan
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Joined: 17 Jun 2003
Location: Training future GS competitors.....
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Gatsby
Joined: 09 Feb 2007
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mises
Joined: 05 Nov 2007
Location: retired
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| Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2008 2:47 pm Post subject: |
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| The 5th isn't hers. No way, no way. Her daughter had it and then turned around and got preggers with another. Wasilla Values ya'll! |
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