Report finds that White House used ‘taxpayer-funded trips to help elect Republican candidates.’
Report finds that White House used ‘taxpayer-funded trips to help elect Republican candidates.’
A draft House Oversight Committee report finds that the White House “used the political affairs office to orchestrate an aggressive strategy to use taxpayer-funded trips to help elect Republican candidates for public office.” Under the direction of Sara Taylor, the political affairs office identified struggling GOP candidates and arranged for cabinet members to make appearances on their behalf:
From January 1, 2006, until the mid-term elections on November 7, 2006, cabinet secretaries and other senior officials traveled to over 300 events recommended by the political affairs office. All of these events were held with Republican candidates, and in most cases, the travel costs were paid for with federal funds. … In some instances, the White House specifically requested that travel be billed to the taxpayers to save Republican campaigns money.
During the course of their investigation, the Oversight Committee found Taylor to be “evasive” and “misleading.”
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During the course of their investigation, the Oversight Committee found Taylor to be “evasive” and “misleading.”
Then let’s arrest the drripping slag, slap her in jail for a couple of weeks, and then waterboard he til she tosses…
October 15th, 2008 at 1:29 pmwhoever is responsible for this needs their sorry ass thrown under the jail. they need to be charged NOW.
October 15th, 2008 at 1:29 pmThe fact that these efforts to elect Republican candidates were utter failures in no way diminishes their illegality and impropriety.
October 15th, 2008 at 1:29 pmNixon like plumbers at work again. Jail time is required to resolve.
October 15th, 2008 at 1:30 pmI’d be far more surprised to hear that the GOP had actually obeyed the law, for once.
October 15th, 2008 at 1:31 pmRecall that Sara Taylor reported directly to Karl Rove…
October 15th, 2008 at 1:32 pmTime to dust off the Hatch Act, Senators.
October 15th, 2008 at 1:32 pmIsn’t this the same woman who was busted for holding seminars to teach federal employees how to help Republican campaigns?
October 15th, 2008 at 1:35 pmcould we please have some non-pardoned jail-time for these crooks.
October 15th, 2008 at 1:36 pmLet’s see what happens with this information. Sara Taylor should be charged with misleading the investigation. There will be more to come with crimes done by the WH. This should help the public know were the money went from the US Treasury as Hank Paulson was handing it out like candy to the GOP.
October 15th, 2008 at 1:36 pmAll you gotta do is uh….follow the money and….see who benefits. I am the Walrus.
October 15th, 2008 at 1:37 pmWho could be surprised with this. It was pretty obvious all along. What will be done about it is the key.
October 15th, 2008 at 1:38 pmjail baby jail! that should be the dem chant.
October 15th, 2008 at 1:41 pmKind of off topic, but did anyone read the article yesterday in which McCain said he’d bring up Ayers in tonight’s debate?
What did McCain say in earlier debates, ‘you don’t tell the enemy that you’re going to tell attack them’ or something like that??
Don’t you want the element of surprise in a debate, to catch your opponent off guard and make him stammer and stutter?
October 15th, 2008 at 1:42 pmDear Federal Government:
Enclosed is a bill for $0.13.
This is my calculated share of taxpayer funds misused by your administration.
Please remit in full no later than Friday, October 17th, 2008 or we will be forced to send this to collection.
Sincererly,
October 15th, 2008 at 1:43 pmRagnar Ulysses Cerious
Database Geek
P.S. The previous communication should be referenced solely in terms of the misuse of funds used by the political affairs office to orchestrate an aggressive strategy to use taxpayer-funded trips to help elect Republican candidates for public office.
October 15th, 2008 at 1:45 pmIT’S MY MONEY! AND I NEED IT NOW!
I WANT A REFUND!
October 15th, 2008 at 1:45 pmThe bush whitehouse has raped the taxpayer outright while their corporate friends have killed our economy. But don’t think they are done. Their friends will remain in high places to look over your money being spent in less than frugal ways. When all is done they skate and we loose.
October 15th, 2008 at 1:48 pmImagine the howls of outrage and blood-lust from the reich-wing noise machine if this had been done by the Democrats.
I rest my case.
October 15th, 2008 at 1:49 pmThe Bush admin would like Iran, Korea et al to be accountable yet they have clearly shown over the last 8 years that accountability is something that is foreign to them (pun intended).
October 15th, 2008 at 1:51 pmBecause to them:
It is the government of the Republican Party.
October 15th, 2008 at 1:53 pmOK, I can’t decide which headline is likely to come up next:
Medical Community Warns Republicans About Dire Consequences of Eating Too Many of Their Own
OR
Supply Crisis – Republicans Running Low on Buses Under Which to Throw Each Other
October 15th, 2008 at 1:55 pmLet’s see…
Until recently, the Republicans had from five to ten times as much money as the Democrats. They also had the districts gerrymandered, the voting machines rigged; the vote suppressed; virtual control over the media; a well-oiled attack machine; legions of uncritical voters; operatives everywhere playing dirty tricks; heavily-funded right-wing think tanks; control over a thoroughly corrupt Justice Department; countless propaganda channels like Fox News and NewsMax; the relentless din of hate radio; and the power of the Federal government–all lined up behind them.
And yet THEY STILL CAN’T WIN!
If Republicans had any idea what world-class, Guinness-Book-of-World-Record-breaking screw-ups they are, they’d all hang themselves immediately.
October 15th, 2008 at 1:55 pmOnly in the United Snakes of America under the Sith Administration: Land of thieves. Home of the slaves.And look for much more findings of stealing the taxpayers’ money from much more hidden agenda from the Sith Administration. Sara Taylor needs to be charged with perjury and misleading the Oversight Committee.
October 15th, 2008 at 1:57 pmOf course, this year troubled republican candidates are actually paying GDumbya to keep himself, Darth Vader and the Keystone Kops Kabinet out of their towns.
Unfortunately, the money is going into the GDumbya Defense Fund instead of repaying the government for all its political expenses incurred in 2006.
October 15th, 2008 at 2:02 pmThis is what Repukian Mafia Members do, crime, lots and lots of crime, with lots and lots of lying thrown in for good measure.
And of course the voters who are repuke members approve of this kind of mentality.
October 15th, 2008 at 2:04 pmPerry logan; If all Repugs would just hang themselves at once, I would not care if they recognize themselves as phuck-ups or not.
October 15th, 2008 at 2:04 pmIsn’t this the same woman who was busted for holding seminars to teach federal employees how to help Republican campaigns?
I think that was Lorita “Cookies” Doan.
October 15th, 2008 at 2:06 pmDick Cheney was here in New Orleans just this past week for a party in the French Quarter. It was a fund raiser for Republican House of Representatives candidate Steve Scalise.
October 15th, 2008 at 2:12 pmAll paid for by the taxpayers.
-Saddleback-
Rick Warren-”Sen. McCain is in a [Cone of Silence]“- meaning McCain can’t hear anything that will be discussed with Sen. OBama.
McCain-Said nothing about his true whereabouts until the truth was found out.
October 15th, 2008 at 2:16 pmPhenix Says:
McCain-Said nothing about his true whereabouts until the truth was found out.
Did you go to school with Scarah Palin?
October 15th, 2008 at 2:23 pmIn the meantime we are now listening to the Republicans wailing about Acorn and voter registration fraud. While Alberto Gonzales and the other administrations crooks fired attorneys who wouldn’t trump up fake charges of election fraud. Thank you Pelosi and Reid for taking impeachment off the table and letting all these infractions stand . Unbelievable.
October 15th, 2008 at 2:25 pmYeah he said that while singing Bomb, Bomb, Bomb Iran.
October 15th, 2008 at 2:27 pmIsn’t that the cookie lady, Lurita Doan of the GSA.
October 15th, 2008 at 2:31 pmWhy can’t “Oversight” be performed BEFORE these people spend the money? Where is the accountability PRIOR to abuse?
October 15th, 2008 at 2:39 pmI bet the Chinese are really POed.
They lent us the money.
“Taxpayers” is a very nebulous term now that the dollar has had the white sheet pulled over its head.
October 15th, 2008 at 2:48 pmMy understanding is that the Hatch Act has an exemption for cabinet members and other federal employees who have been appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate.
Section 7324 of The Hatch Act provides an exemption to the ban on political activities to:
* (i) an employee paid from an appropriation for the Executive Office of the President; or
* (ii) an employee appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, whose position is located within the United States, who determines policies to be pursued by the United States in the nationwide administration of Federal laws.
HOWEVER, while they are allowed to participate in partisan actions, no taxpayer dollars can be spent for political activities. Those should be borne by the candidates or party’s campaign.
October 15th, 2008 at 2:52 pmCan’t we find the entire Republican Party in contempt of our country?
October 15th, 2008 at 2:54 pmSo many crimes, so little time – and so little will to do anything about the crimes…..
October 15th, 2008 at 3:17 pmWizard – We now find the entire Federal Government in contempt of our country.
October 15th, 2008 at 3:19 pmIs there a department that the repugs hasn’t corrupted?
October 15th, 2008 at 4:13 pmBush came to Tucson for a PRIVATE fundraiser for congressional candidate Tim Bee and the taxpayers were billed for $100,000.
October 15th, 2008 at 5:16 pmfollow the money to see who is writing the checks and balances..it will lead you right up to who you should arrest.
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