{"id":194106,"date":"2008-10-24T05:19:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-24T10:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/10\/24\/we-are-living-in-bizarro-world-2\/"},"modified":"2008-10-24T05:19:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-24T10:19:00","slug":"we-are-living-in-bizarro-world-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/10\/24\/we-are-living-in-bizarro-world-2\/","title":{"rendered":"We Are Living in Bizarro World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>and John Sidney McCain III is the Bizarro candidate.<\/p>\n<p>Case in point, according to a filing with the Federal Election Commission, the highest paid person in the McCain campaign in the first week of October was <a href=\"http:\/\/thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com\/2008\/10\/24\/pains-makeup-stylist-fetches-highest-salary-in-2-week-period\/\">her makeup artist<\/a>:<br \/>That annualizes to $592,800.00 a year.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color:#000099;\">Ms. Strozzi, who was nominated for an Emmy award for her makeup work on the television show \u201cSo You Think You Can Dance?\u201d, was paid $22,800 for the first two weeks of October alone, according to the records. The campaign categorized Ms. Strozzi\u2019s payment as \u201cPersonnel Svc\/Equipment.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That annualizes to $592,800.00 a year. <\/p>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color:#000099;\">In addition, Angela Lew, who is Ms. Palin\u2019s traveling hair stylist, got $10,000<br \/>for \u201cCommunications Consulting\u201d in the first half of October. Ms. Lew\u2019s address<br \/>listed in F.E.C. records traces to an Angela M. Lew in Thousands Oaks, Calif.,<br \/>which matches with a license issued by the California Board of Barbering and<br \/>Cosmetology. The board said Ms. Lew works at a salon called Hair Grove in<br \/>Westlake Village, Calif. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<p>$260,000.00\/year.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m in the wrong bloody line of work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>and John Sidney McCain III is the Bizarro candidate. Case in point, according to a filing with the Federal Election Commission, the highest paid person in the McCain campaign in the first week of October was her makeup artist:That annualizes to $592,800.00 a year. Ms. Strozzi, who was nominated for an Emmy award for her &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1228,977,982],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-john-sidney-mccain-iii","category-presidential-campaign","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194106"}],"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=194106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}