{"id":189432,"date":"2010-03-30T08:52:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-30T13:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/03\/30\/republican-national-committee-spending-money-on-bondage-themed-lesbian-shows\/"},"modified":"2010-03-30T08:52:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-30T13:52:00","slug":"republican-national-committee-spending-money-on-bondage-themed-lesbian-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/03\/30\/republican-national-committee-spending-money-on-bondage-themed-lesbian-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican National Committee Spending Money on Bondage Themed Lesbian Shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No, really, <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2010\/03\/29\/high-flyer-rnc-chairman-steele-suggested-buying-private-jet-with-gop-funds\/#ixzz0jZtVnAnS\">this is not <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Onion<\/span><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>According to two knowledgeable sources, Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele once raised the possibility of using party money to buy a private jet for his travel.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n<p>While Steele has not purchased a plane, he continues to charter them. According to federal disclosure records, the RNC spent $17,514 on private aircraft in the month of February alone (as well as $12,691 on limousines during the same period). There are no readily identifiable private plane expenses for Democratic National Committee chairman Tim Kaine in the DNC\u2019s last three months of filings.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Once on the ground, FEC filings suggest, Steele travels in style. A February RNC trip to California, for example, included a $9,099 stop at the Beverly Hills Hotel, $6,596 dropped at the nearby Four Seasons, and $1,620.71 spent [update: the amount is actually $1,946.25] at <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">Voyeur West Hollywood, a bondage-themed nightclub featuring topless women dancers imitating lesbian sex<\/span><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>RNC trips to other cities produced bills from a long list of chic and costly hotels such as the Venetian and the M Resort in Las Vegas, and the W (for a total of $19,443) in Washington. A midwinter trip to Hawaii cost the RNC $43,828, not including airfare.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">emphasis mine<\/span>)<\/p>\n<p>There have been some complaints that Michael Steele has been spending his time stumping for Michael Steele, and his upcoming book, and not the party, but this is just nuts.<\/p>\n<p>This is not a picture of a party resurgent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, really, this is not The Onion: According to two knowledgeable sources, Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele once raised the possibility of using party money to buy a private jet for his travel. \u2026\u2026\u2026 While Steele has not purchased a plane, he continues to charter them. According to federal disclosure records, the RNC spent &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,978,1075,982],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-politics","category-sex","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189432"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}