Above link has the latest updates. Young Eagles indeed! Pubby perversion in expense reporting.
And still, the thread title remains the same.
You’re an SDSAB, why don’t you hit a mod up?
I pretty much agree with you. I mean, I still think the name “Voyeur” is sufficiently suggestive to raise red flag. But this doesn’t reveal some deep-seated corruption or ineptitude in the GOP.
There are plenty of other things that do that. 
/d & r
Ooh, ooh! Can I play?
I’m going to guess “CUT” is the strip club. You can hide all sorts of stuff in acronyms.
We call that the “Wen Ho Lee” feature of thread titles.
CUT is a steakhouse. Try again.
It’s Star Garden, obviously. Geisha House is too on the nose, and Blue Velvet sounds like a lounge.
None of those names are as suggestive or prima facie eyebrow raising as Voyeur, though, and anything for that amount of money should be checked out regardless.
What can I say - the man knows his strip clubs.
Although I will point out that I have eaten in a couple of restaurants named Star Garden - with no stripping to be found anywhere.
And I thought this thread was about a Bangle-
Exactly, and the Feds require this for their travel expenses. Now, sure if the expense had been under $25, then I’d buy a “didn’t check” expense, as that’s even allowed under the tax codes.
It was an entertainment expense for $2000, it should have been carefully checked before re-imbusement.
Bricker, your argument is obtuse. Recall that this came up as part of a Federal Election Commission report.
Well, if you are a reporter, which ones would you check up on? This is from a public database after all.
A: You check all of them. So the auditors and PR department need to do that before filing the quarterly report with the FEC. Otherwise, the RNC is likely to stumble from one scandal to another.
Furthermore, Moto’s list is bogus. Missing “Star Garden” might be an oversight. But any establishment with the name “Voyeur” in it justifies a search in google and yelp. Unless of course you want you want management to look foolish.
The whole point of all the defenses in this thread are to be obtuse and distract from criticizing the RNC for spending $2,000 at a strip club. The party of family values my pastey white ass. Now, can we get on to guessing which names of which restaurants are strip clubs, because you won’t find Republicans, the RNC and The Young Eagles in just any old LA restaurant. They can tell you the difference between names of the restaurants and strip clubs in every US city.
I’d ask where the outrage is, but then somebody would point out that outrage is no different than enrage and try to distract us with that.
Can we now get a list of the names of The Young Eagles that attended and ran up the $2,000 tab?
Not yet, but we’re still digging.
From the web:
Although the Young Eagles accumulated only 120 fans on Facebook, they were nonetheless the only donor group in the Republican Party that pulled its own weight. Comprised of young donors, membership cost $7500 per year and had a number of exciting benefits. [:
“The Young Eagles](Young Eagles’ Plans for 2010: UFC Match, Bull Riding, Texas Bird Hunt) will be at the Phillies opening day baseball game (where President Obama will throw out the first pitch), a September “Texas bird hunt” and an October Ultimate Fighting Championship event in Las Vegas.” And in July, there is an event in Boise with Gov. Butch Otter (R-Idaho).
The next fundraising meeting is at Xe, the symbol of the company formerly known as Blackwater. When the RNC referred to the “Ego-Driven” big donors, these are the boys they presumably had in mind.
Bush’s Brain bashes Bondage. Karl Rove says GOP must deal with scandal
Even a stopped watch is correct twice a day. Yet none of our tighty righty Dopers seem to have picked this one.
Better check if Dick Cheney will be attending before saying yes to that one.
I’ve changed the thread title, which was originally “Huh. Michael Steele hangs out in S&M Strip Clubs.”
Thank you very much.
Or, more likely, unless the RNC has developed an institutional culture of letting these things slide and (implicitly or otherwise) treating such uses of party funds as one of the privileges that come with rank and connections. Once a pattern of ignoring, or perhaps even punishing, staffers who try to blow the whistle becomes established, word gets around and turning a blind eye becomes SOP.
Well, maybe Microsoft gave them a big donation – but using Bing ought to work just as well after the computer is done downloading whatever bloated graphic is stuck on their homepage at the moment.