Courtesy of
The Note:
Sarah Palin spent almost $14,000 to adorn her “One Nation” tour bus with larger-than-life renditions of the Constitution, Liberty Bell, and her signature.That’s one of hundreds of expenditures listed in SarahPAC’s semi-annual FEC report, which was filed online today. The former Alaska governor’s political action committee paid $13,708.44 to the Tennessee company Fast Signs for “Bus Wrap” on May 26, three days before her tour of the northeast kicked off.Unbelievable that the poor
, undereducated paint chip eaters that are still dreaming of a Sarah Palin Presidency, spent almost $14,000 to decorate a bus so that their idol (And the only family member that could stand her) could visit tourist attractions for five days, while continuing to play the political prick tease in order to attract the publicity that she so desperately craves.
That is almost $3000 a day
! And what did the Palin-bots GET for their hard earned money?
This:
And of course
this. Not to mention
this. And really who could forget
this? Which of course inevitably led to
this.
Well gee that was such a good investment I wonder what else Palin spent her supporter's retirement savings on?
SarahPAC raised $1,658,897 during the first six months of 2011 and spent $1,591,520. The PAC has $1,402,368 cash on hand. In a statement, SarahPAC treasurer Tim Crawford told ABC News that the group “more than doubled the amount we raised as compared to the same time period in 2009. We received more than 36,700 contributions from over 24,000 contributors.”Among SarahPAC’s other noteworthy disbursements:-- $26,295.47 to a Visa/BankCard payment center in Dallas, Tex. for “Air Fare, Lodging, Car Rental, Wireless.” The date of disbursement is June 2, the day she visited Massachusetts and New Hampshire. Presumably, the sum accounts for some of the cost of her “One Nation” tour.
So besides the $14,000 she wasted on this "bus tour" she also spent an additional $26,000 on air fare, lodging, and "CAR RENTAL!" What the hell for? She had a bus with $14,000 worth of decorations on it that she could both live in AND use for transportation!
-- $5,794 to Israel’s Sar-El Tours and Travel for a“Tour of Holy Land.” Palin visited Israel in March and met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.Oh yeah, that trip ALSO
turned out well.
-- $18,700 to Young America’s Foundation, a conservative outreach organization aimed at students.Is that how much the brain washing of young people costs these days? How much do you want to bet she could not get HER kids to attend if she duct taped them to the top of her car and drove their ass there?
-- $10,000 to Peter Schweizer for “Research Consulting.” Schweizer is a conservative author based in Florida who Palin hired as her foreign policy adviser in May.I wonder if part of his advice was for Palin to
hide in her room for two days while visiting India in order to avoid the locals?
-- $5,416.66 to Anchorage, Alaska’s True North L'Attitudes for scheduling.-- $683 to the Nashville, Tenn. store Nico & LaLa for bookmarks.There is in fact much more in these filings, which you can find
here.
I have a feeling that this is just the beginning and that we will learn much more about how Sarah wastes her supporters money in the days, and weeks ahead.
You know some days I feel bad for the people who are so besotted with Sarah Palin that they will allow her to take such advantage of them. Today is not one of those days.
You people are idiots, and she's a fraud, move on!
Update: It looks like the
Washington Post has uncovered evidence that Palin's bus tour might actually have cost even MORE than we thought. Seriously?
But the total for the trip is likely much more, because many bills came in after the June 30 filing deadline, Sarah PAC treasurer Tim Crawford said in an interview. In addition, many other expenses associated with the trip, such as photography, videography, Internet fundraising and airfare, are more difficult to account for. (One item in the report describes $6,999 paid to an air charter company called Republican Presidential Travel on June 9, at the tail end of “One Nation.”)Wait, what? There is a such thing as a "Republican Presidential Travel" airline? I have never heard of that.
And by the way neither have the folks over at
Talking Points Memo.
But they did learn THIS:
Doug Garrett, the former owner of Moby Dick Airways, told TPM that Republican Presidential Travel is headquartered in Alaska and under an agreement with the new owner of Moby Dick Airways only does charters in Alaska. He referred questions specifically about the services his company provided to Palin to SarahPAC.Okay by a show of hands, does ANYBODY have any doubt that this airline is somehow ONLY providing flights to a certain half-term governor?
Yeah, that's what I thought.
