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Post by Noble Work on Mar 30, 2010 12:07:20 GMT -5
What do yall think? Will his party throw him under the bus?
RNC Chairman Michael Steele’s Romp at a Bondage-Themed Strip Club, on GOP’s Dime
Michael Steele, chairman of the Republican National Committee, has been questioned more than once about his judgment and priorities when it comes to spending his party’s money. We learned a month ago, for example, about the RNC chief spending excessively on private planes, limousines, catering, and flowers.
It didn’t help when the party, hoping to have every penny it can get its hands on for the midterms, also hired Wolfgang Puck’s D.C. crew to cater the RNC’s Christmas party at a trendy hotspot, and moved its winter meeting from Washington to Hawaii.
But this new report from The Daily Caller has to be the most humiliating yet.
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. [...]
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’s last three months of filings. [...]
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 Voyeur West Hollywood, a bondage-themed nightclub featuring topless women dancers imitating lesbian sex. [emphasis added]
Wait, what?
Yes, it appears that Michael Steele spent RNC money at “a bondage-themed nightclub featuring topless women dancers imitating lesbian sex.” The party of “family values,” indeed.
I wonder what the reaction would be — from the media, from the political establishment, from the RNC — if Tim Kaine had spent nearly $2,000 in donor money at “a bondage-themed nightclub featuring topless women dancers imitating lesbian sex.”
There have already been reports in recent months about Republican donors moving away from the RNC, and towards campaign committees and preferred candidates, in part because they don’t trust the party’s strange chairman. This was made worse when we learned that Steele has been using his position to line his own pockets, most notably through his outside paid speeches and a book written in secret.
But these latest revelations will weaken Steele even further. Indeed, if Republicans fall short of their own sky-high expectations in the midterm elections, expect Michael Steele to receive the bulk of the blame.
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Post by Noble Work on Mar 30, 2010 12:14:27 GMT -5
...strange chairman? lol
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Post by BlackPrincess on Mar 30, 2010 12:20:13 GMT -5
who cares? he is strange and deserves to get thrown under the bus...IMO!
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Post by DamieQue™ on Mar 30, 2010 12:37:00 GMT -5
I wonder if this dude hasn't been secretly working for the Democrats all along. I mean, from the outside looking in, he has done more than his fair share to an already damaged product. He is killing them. Go Michael Go!!! LOL
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Post by Julie Art on Mar 30, 2010 13:20:06 GMT -5
ROTFL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OMG! Hilarious! That is what they get for getting him anyway. Only reason he got that position anyway is because of his skin color. That is exactly what they deserve, just like McCain got exactly what he deserved with Palin.
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Post by nsync on Mar 30, 2010 13:28:58 GMT -5
But he can write this off as a stress reduction activity. Can't he?
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Post by Julie Art on Mar 30, 2010 13:29:39 GMT -5
Buahahahahahahahahahahahahahaahahahahaha!
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Post by ReignMan19 on Mar 30, 2010 13:31:21 GMT -5
Mama's little baby loves shortening shortening... mama's lil baby love shortening bread....
Sorry everytime I see him or hear his name this is all I hear...
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Post by DamieQue™ on Mar 30, 2010 13:51:41 GMT -5
I think we all know Michael Steele is out... the fact that he is one of their own doesn't overshadow the fact that in the end he is still what they detest: A black person in power spending money.
The voyeur hotel is child's play compared to the sexual imbroglios that the party has suffered at the hands of their white males. But that won't matter. The evil eat their own and so...
Realizing that they aren't fooling anybody with window dressing and they aren't going to win any diversity votes with his appointment, Michael will soon be gone.
I say he should buy a cadillac and put some 22's on that ho before he leaves though. Ride out with a bandana around your head, a gun in your waist, playing Tupac Mike. What do you have to lose at this point?
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Post by Julie Art on Mar 30, 2010 13:59:04 GMT -5
ROTFL!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by DamieQue™ on Mar 30, 2010 14:07:35 GMT -5
And as he drives off he should say, "you got served"
That would put a "bow" on the whole deal.
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Post by ReignMan19 on Mar 30, 2010 14:21:47 GMT -5
wasn't he already using some form of slang in one of his interviews... he is half way there...
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Post by DamieQue™ on Mar 30, 2010 14:36:03 GMT -5
I think maybe they'll wait to see how many seats they win or lose and then use that as the de facto excuse to get rid of him though there is some logic to the idea that he won't even last that long
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Post by Noble Work on Mar 30, 2010 14:44:03 GMT -5
Wow Damie, I didn't want to be the first to bring it up but since you hit on it.
The RNC sees M.S. as just another ninja. And they bout to show it. Now they are going to start using those racially undertone words and meanings to describe him and his actions. The only way/reason he was the so-called head or Chairman was because he was black. They thought that since he is black and Pres. Obama is black then they will get him to try to take him down and discredit him. They figured it will look good coming from another ninja. That's right he is a token.
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Post by Julie Art on Mar 30, 2010 14:56:13 GMT -5
Wow Damie, I didn't want to be the first to bring it up but since you hit on it. The RNC sees M.S. as just another ninja. And they bout to show it. Now they are going to start using those racially undertone words and meanings to describe him and his actions. The only way/reason he was the so-called head or Chairman was because he was black. They thought that since he is black and Pres. Obama is black then they will get him to try to take him down and discredit him. They figured it will look good coming from another ninja. That's right he is a token. I saw it as them getting him to show that they are just as interracial as the democratic party, or to show they are as liberal with race relations as the democratic party. BUT! It has back fired on them, just like when McCain ran out and got Palin to run on his ticket as VP once he saw President Obama didn't pick Hillary Clinton to run as VP on his. Like the American people couldn't see through that. Those who were/are for Hillary isn't because she is a woman, but because of what she stands for, her intelligence, and what she can bring to the table. But of course, the GOP didn't understand that, hence picking Palin. They are still doing the "good ol' boy" system operations (picking Steel and Palin) and think the American people are either too dumb, too blind, or both to recognize it. Once they learn that they are going to have to completely revamp how they do things, then and only then will they start to make strides. Until then, the party will continue to fall apart as we having being seeing within the last year and a half. |
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Post by T-Rex91 on Mar 31, 2010 8:49:53 GMT -5
They've made no secret since he took the helm that they wanted him out. I think he's an a$$ and have enjoyed every skirmish but you're making major news for $2K in a strip club?  ? None of the expenses are major weight or out of line in terms of magnitude for politicians on this level. |
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Post by Noble Work on Apr 6, 2010 12:23:07 GMT -5
I read the whole article but didn't get all the way through the vid.
But is seems to me that Micheal has looked in the mirror
Embattled RNC Chairman Michael Steele broke his silence on the RNC fundraising scandal known as "bondage-gate" Monday morning when he sat down for an interview with George Stephanopoulos on ABC's "Good Morning America." Expressing racial kinship with the man he spends a good deal of his time attacking, Steele said that because of the color of their skin, he and President Obama aren't granted much latitude for mistakes on the job.
Stephanopoulos, offering up a question from a viewer named "Myron" via his blog, asked, "Do you feel that, as an African-American, you have a slimmer margin for error than another chairman would?"
"The honest answer is yes," said Steele responded. "Barack Obama has a slimmer margin. A lot of folks do. It's a different role for me to play and others to play and that's just the reality of it. But you take that as part of the nature of it."
Steele also highlighted the stylistic differences between himself and leaders of the GOP establishment. His approach to leading the party is "grass-roots-oriented" rather than "old-boy-network-oriented," he said, telling Stephanopoulos that he tends to "come at it a little bit stronger, a little bit more streetwise." He grants that his leadership style has "rubbed some feathers the wrong way."
Steele also addressed the scandal that broke last week when the conservative website The Daily Caller revealed that the RNC had reimbursed close to $2,000 in expenses for entertaining donors at a bondage-themed sex club in West Hollywood. The issue has become "larger than it needs to be," Steele said, and stressed that he took swift action, firing the staffer who had put in for the expenses and ensuring that the committee doesn't get involved in such spending in the future. Even so, longtime GOP donors have started to direct money away from the RNC, opting instead to give directly to candidates or the party's House and Senate campaign committees.
"The reality of it is, when I first heard about this behavior going on, I was very angry, and we dealt with it. We got to the bottom of it," Steele said. "We have been putting great controls in place for the last few months, as a matter of fact, on some of our financing."
Steele also denied the larger thrust of the report in The Daily Caller: that he's a high-roller who overspends on private airfare, deluxe travel accommodations, and limousines. He added that figures within the GOP have been keen to flush him out of his post "since the day I got the job."
He insisted that his record speaks for itself. "At the end of the day, I've raised more money than the Democrats in seven out of 12 months," Steele said. "I carry over the same amount of money as the DNC in 2010. The bottom line is, I hear my donors, I hear our base out there, I hear the leadership. And we're taking steps to make sure that we're even more - how shall we say it - fiscally conservative in our spending and certainly making sure the dollars are there when it's time to run our campaigns."
Steele's charm offensive may give him some breathing room as he continues piloting the national GOP toward the critical 2010 midterms - though the committee's bid to move on and restore order was derailed a bit by a report in Monday's Washington Post that it had hired Neil S. Alpert as a fundraising aide. Alpert had been fined $4,000 by the District of Columbia for alleged fundraising improprieties involving a political action committee supporting major-league baseball in the District. Albert paid the fine but denied any wrongdoing, according to Post reporter Perry Bacon Jr.
Meanwhile, the White House has already weighed in with a jaundiced view of Steele's racial observations. When a reporter sought comment at Monday morning's press briefing, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs called Steele's racial aside a "silly comment to make" and quipped, "I think Michael Steele's problem isn't the race card; it's the credit card."
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Post by Cambist on Apr 6, 2010 12:44:57 GMT -5
Mama's little baby loves shortening shortening... mama's lil baby love shortening bread.... Sorry everytime I see him or hear his name this is all I hear... I couldn't hold my laughter at work.....but since I don't work with any of 'us' I coudln't share either....LOLOLOLOLOLOL!!! |
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Post by Chal™ on Apr 6, 2010 15:24:12 GMT -5
lol @ mama's little baby
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Post by Noble Work on Apr 6, 2010 16:07:20 GMT -5
They say he should be removed. He says he's not going any where.
I bet you 345034583098054408043830393 dollars the RNC will throw him under the bus, put it in reverse and roll over him again.
There argument will be because his spending habits but the real reason will be because he didn't unseat President Barack Obama.
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Post by Vudu_Prince on Apr 6, 2010 16:32:16 GMT -5
I dunno why... but I actually like Micheal Steele. Barack Obama is a more savvy politician than Steele anyday of the week.. but I'd love to see them in a debate. I think Steele would hand it to him. Newt Gingrich gave Steele a vote of confidence. So he chill for now
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Post by Julie Art on Apr 6, 2010 16:40:02 GMT -5
They say he should be removed. He says he's not going any where. I bet you 345034583098054408043830393 dollars the RNC will throw him under the bus, put it in reverse and roll over him again. There argument will be because his spending habits but the real reason will be because he didn't unseat President Barack Obama. And there it is. ROTFL at Mr. Steele now coming into the real world, lol! |
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Post by Cambist on Apr 7, 2010 13:17:45 GMT -5
I dunno why... but I actually like Micheal Steele. Barack Obama is a more savvy politician than Steele anyday of the week.. but I'd love to see them in a debate. I think Steele would hand it to him. Newt Gingrich gave Steele a vote of confidence. So he chill for now In a public debate, Steele would win. He's confident, he's intelligent, he's got stage appeal. In an academic debate or one where facts actually matter? Obama wins but is still out staged because Steele is used to being on that stage. Still a coon but I guess everyone has to do what makes them happy or makes them the bucks. |
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