Palin got 150k from RNC for clothing link

[tas38]

Hello Everyone....

Talk about a high priced hair cuts, well palin got 150k for clothing and accessorize for her and her family. From the RNC so it's spend like mad for her, but cut cut cut the budget for helping others. Read for your self, that some high priced fashion with public funds from the RNC.

( RNC appears to shell out $150K for Palin fashion )

The Republican National Committee appears to have spent more than $150,000 to clothe and accessorize vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin and her family since her surprise pick by John McCain in late August.

According to financial disclosure records, the accessorizing began in early September and included bills from Saks Fifth Avenue in St. Louis and New York for a combined $49,425.74.

The records also document a couple of big-time shopping trips to Neiman Marcus in Minneapolis, including one $75,062.63 spree in early September.

The RNC also spent $4,716.49 on hair and makeup through September after reporting no such costs in August.

Politico asked the McCain campaign for comment, explicitly noting the $150,000 in expenses for department store shopping and makeup consultation that were incurred immediately after Palin’s announcement. Pre-September reports do not include similar costs.

Spokeswoman Maria Comella declined to answer specific questions about the expenditures, including whether it was necessary to spend that much and whether it amounted to one early investment in Palin or if shopping for the vice presidential nominee was ongoing.

Palin Fashion

“The campaign does not comment on strategic decisions regarding how financial resources available to the campaign are spent," she said.

The business of primping and dressing on the campaign trail has become fraught with political risk in recent years as voters increasingly see an elite Washington out of touch with their values and lifestyles.

In 2000, Democrat Al Gore took heat for changing his clothing hues. And in 2006, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) was ribbed for two hair styling sessions that cost about $3,000.

Then, there was Democrat John Edwards’ $400 hair cuts in 2007 and Republican McCain’s $520 black leather Ferragamo shoes this year.

A review of similar records for the campaign of Democrat Barack Obama and the Democratic National Committee turned up no similar spending.

But all the spending by other candidates pales in comparison to the GOP outlay for the Alaska governor whose expensive, designer outfits have been the topic of fashion pages and magazines.

What hasn’t been apparent is where the clothes came from – her closet back in Wasilla or from the campaign coffers in Washington.

The answer can be found inside the RNC’s September monthly financial disclosure report under “itemized coordinated expenditures.”

It’s a report that typically records expenses for direct mail, telephone calls and advertising. Those expenses do show up, but the report also has a new category of spending: “campaign accessories.”

September payments were also made to Barney’s New York ($789.72) and Bloomingdale’s New York ($5,102.71).

Macy’s in Minneapolis, another store fortunate enough to be situated in the Twin Cities that hosted last summer’s Republican National Convention, received three separate payments totaling $9,447.71.

The entries also show a few purchases at Pacifier, a top notch baby store, and Steiniauf & Stroller Inc., suggesting $295 was spent to accommodate the littlest Palin to join the campaign trail.

An additional $4,902.45 was spent at Atelier, a high-class shopping destination for men.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1008/14805.html

Edited In:

I don't know any hockey mom's that spend that much, they are no six pack joe or joe the plumber I'll tell you that.

[stock_post]

Did their spending anywhere close to Obama's
How much did he pay for him and his family clothing.

if you could bering numbers from both sides that would be nice.

[tas38]

I don't know what the numbers are for obama and biden, but it says this.....

( But all the spending by other candidates pales in comparison to the GOP outlay for the Alaska governor whose expensive, designer outfits have been the topic of fashion pages and magazines. )

Spending 150k on fashion is very telling, that how much palin makes in a year as gov.

[500,000]

Love Wins

[tas38]

It's seems like a double standard to me, a guy spends $400 on a hair cut, and everyone up in arms over it. But a women spends 150,000 bucks of public funding, and no one seems to be bugged about it at all. That is a double standard to me, and palin went after everyone else for over spending.

If it was her own money, that would be one thing but it was not. She would of had to save a years wages, to spend that much on fashion but it's not just fashion. She went to the most costly places, and she sold the jet but then spends 150k on fashion. She is using one standard for others, and a different one for her self the way it looks to me.

[Raider]

Their was plenty of waste at the DNC convention, should be go there too?....

It cost a lot of money to keep up your appearance at these rallies... Womans clothing and maintaining their physical appearance cost a lot more for a Woman than it does for a Man, that's a fact..... I have NO doubt that Hillary racked up a bigger tab than Palin did, since Hillary needs a lot more work than Palin does.

[tas38]

Go ahead go there, if they spent 150,000 on fashion. Then I also think some thing wrong with them as well, so please do go ahead raider........

[DomainsInc]

Palin also spent public money flying her kids around and having hem stay in hotel rooms while governer. Its an swanky life being a politician it seems.

[H2FC]

Palin will have a lot to answer for when she runs for gov again in Alaska.....and she will run because she doesn't have a snowballs chance in hell of winning the VP job....

[izoot]

This whining and *****ing really made me laugh when the Palin haters started spewing it and makes me laugh still today. Its non issue that has been twisted into a conspiracy ...
guess when there is no actual conspiracies to out they have to go for the most accessable thing. No matter how trivial or lame.