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McCain $$ Priorities: Palin's HAIR!!
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Tiger Beer



Joined: 07 Feb 2003
PostPosted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 9:59 pm    Post subject: McCain $$ Priorities: Palin's HAIR!! Reply with quote
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081024/ap_on_el_pr/campaign_money

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McCain's Oct. 1-15 filing showed that the campaign paid $22,800 to Palin's traveling stylist, Amy Strozzi, an acclaimed celebrity makeup artist. In contrast, McCain's foreign policy adviser, Randy Scheunemann, was paid $12,500, the report showed.


I almost coughed out my glass of water when I read this one. Are you serious? Palin's traveling stylist makes more in two weeks than McCain's foreign policy adviser!

Hahahahaha
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Milwaukiedave



Joined: 02 Oct 2004
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 10:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Given they are running out of money quickly, you would think they would be putting money into activities which actually get votes.

Of course this is just another mass hysteria left thing. It's not like they ACTUALLY want to win the election, right?
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The Hammer



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PostPosted: Fri Oct 24, 2008 12:47 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Well, Alaskan Bush is pretty tough to cut, so it seems fair.
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Joined: 17 Jun 2003
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 24, 2008 6:50 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
I thought the expenses for Nieman Marcus, Saks, and Bloomingdales were excessive. $75,000 in one go? They could have easily spent less and clothed her just as well. Supported struggling American designers for starters.

Valentino is not a great way to connect with hockey moms and Wal Mart ladies. The average American family spends $1,800 a year on clothes.
Cindy McCain's outfit at the convention was estimated to be $300,000 of cloth and bling.

The Repubs are discouragingly clueless while the markets dive and everyone's watching their retirement funds vanish.
But then the white country club crowd just doesn't live in the same reality the rest of us do.
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No_hite_pls



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PostPosted: Fri Oct 24, 2008 7:00 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
The Hammer wrote:
Well, Alaskan Bush is pretty tough to cut, so it seems fair.


LOL
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caniff



Joined: 03 Feb 2004
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 24, 2008 7:20 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
It's the "money makes you funny (in the head) club".

I worked as a kid and into my uni years during school vacations at my brother's classic car auto restoration shop. We worked on only really high-end stuff (Ferraris, 356 Porsches, gull-wing Mercedes, you get the point..).

I met quite a few celebs, some more famous than others (for example Carl Weathers - he had lots of older Rolls Royces, Hall from Hall and Oates fame - huge Ferrari guy, J. Geils from the J. Geils Band - he had some old E-type Jags we worked on), but they all seem to be laid-back guys who would chill out and shoot the shit while having a coffee and a donut. Same with the customers that had become wealthy but had worked their way up from modest beginnings.

Then you had the a-holes who grew up in money and had never worked a day in their lives, nor would they ever have to (and they were obviously well aware of the fact). They were the most difficult, needling, demanding, whiny sons of bitches who expected us to turn their, for instance, 1957 Maserati (which was only 1 of 2 existing in the world, and had been found at the bottom of a lake in Germany and had just been shipped to us) into a diamond in three months because they wanted to show their friends in the Hamptons that summer (true story).

That's the 'money makes you funny club'. I met many of them. Unfortunately, they are constantly rewarded for their bad behavior by virtue of the fact that most people want some of what they have.
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mises



Joined: 05 Nov 2007
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 24, 2008 8:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
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Who was the highest paid individual in Senator John McCain�s presidential campaign during the first half of October as it headed down the homestretch?

Not Randy Scheunemann, Mr. McCain�s chief foreign policy adviser; not Nicolle Wallace, his senior communications staff member. It was Amy Strozzi, who was identified by the Washington Post this week as Gov. Sarah Palin�s traveling makeup artist, according to a new filing with the Federal Election Commission on Thursday night.

Ms. Strozzi, who was nominated for an Emmy award for her makeup work on the television show �So You Think You Can Dance?�, was paid $22,800 for the first two weeks of October alone, according to the records.

From Andrew Sullivan.
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Cheonmunka



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PostPosted: Fri Oct 24, 2008 3:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Interesting story Caniff.
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caniff



Joined: 03 Feb 2004
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 25, 2008 8:48 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Cheonmunka wrote:
Interesting story Caniff.



Yeah, I get a little annoyed just thinking about them pr1cks.

It assauges my feelings knowing that they generally had unattractive shrilly-voiced wives from other 'blue-blood' families in tow.

They are not to be envied. Only pitied.
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Joo Rip Gwa Rhhee



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PostPosted: Sat Oct 25, 2008 7:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
The Democrats spent 5.3 MILLION dollars for the greek stand at the Democratic convention.


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Convention expenses paid by the committee included $14.1 million for construction costs, including the stage and lighting, at the Pepsi Center and $5.3 million at Invesco Field.


http://www.bizjournals.com/denver/stories/2008/10/13/daily43.html




that how the Democrats spend money..

That seems like a lot more money than 23K.


but then again double standards.
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Joo Rip Gwa Rhhee



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PostPosted: Sat Oct 25, 2008 8:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Democrats wasted a lot more money than the Republicans.


Yup , this thread is over.