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GOP Staffer Axed for Spending Funds at Racy Club

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Posted on Mar 30, 2010
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RNC Chairman Michael Steele, shown here, had nothing to do with the Voyeur incident, the committee insists.

The RNC’s February expense report apparently listed the $1,946 tab from West Hollywood’s Voyeur nightclub, which features topless entertainers and bondage-themed get-ups, as money spent on meals and not bottle service, but regardless, an as-yet-unnamed staffer has been fired over the incident, according to The Associated Press. 

Update: The staffer who took the fall for the Voyeur embarrassment has been identified as Allison Meyers, head of the Young Eagles program.  —KA

AP via Google News:

An RNC internal memo says the Feb. 4 outing to Voyeur West Hollywood involved several members of the “Young Eagles” GOP group who had been in Los Angeles for a meeting. An unnamed staffer, who had been warned that such activities did not qualify for reimbursement, has been fired, said the memo from RNC lawyer Ken McKay.

[...] RNC spokesman Doug Heye said the committee will be reimbursed by Erik Brown of Orange, Calif., the donor-vendor who billed the GOP for the club visit on behalf of the attendees.

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By Joseph, April 25 at 3:09 am Link to this comment
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Oh, Charissa. Do you need to be reminded of the time you had a little to much to drink at
a Republican Party of San Diego event and you very loudly blathered on about all the
kinky things Ron Nehring and you enjoyed? Wasn’t there several trips to maternity stores
followed by very unconventional role playing amongst other things? You may have forgotten that very public
incident but I can assure you no one else in the room that night has. We are still laughing.
Oh, and not with you.

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By charissa, March 22 at 10:40 am Link to this comment

Vince Wisdom, your assertions are foul, foul personal
libel and completely untrue and inaccurate.  You must
remove them immediately or face legal consequences. 

Charissa McElroy

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By Vince Wisdom, April 2, 2010 at 5:38 pm Link to this comment
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Dear Ron Nehring,

This past week, RNC Chairman Michael Steele did the right thing by firing the staff member responsible for making payments to cover the costs of a party hosted at a California Bondage themed nightclub.

We encourage you to follow suit and do the right thing, by resigning your Chairmanship of the California Republican Party for similar reasons.

Republicans are fed-up with politicians that lack traditional family values, and instead embrace dishonesty and negligent sexuality.

As the Sacramento Bee reported, you are responsible for violently attacking one of your girlfriends, Michaelene Mansour.

The stories of your bondage and sadomasochistic activities have become all too public knowledge for what you have enjoyed doing sexually with Michaelene Mansour, Charissa McElroy, Jennifer Jacobs and Others.

In addition to your background as an abuser of women, a sexual bondage enthusiast, you have also bilked the California Republican Party out of thousands of dollars for your personal expenses, as previously reported by Michelle Malkin.

You are a disgrace to Republicans, Conservatives and all Californians.

You are Bondage-Gate 2.0, please have the integrity to resign immediately.

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By ribbie149, March 30, 2010 at 1:56 pm Link to this comment

So once again the party of “family values” takes the
high road and shoots the messenger instead of those who
were guilty of such flawed judgement.

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By samosamo, March 30, 2010 at 1:55 pm Link to this comment

AXED? Naw, this ‘good time charlie’ is far to valuable as a
recruiter for the RNC part of crooked politics as providing
freebie sex trips and entertainment is, next to huge piles of cash
from lobbyists, one great way to get more people into the ranks
of that fast as hell track to becoming an elite and I am sure he
will actually be be put into a ‘private contractor’ type iterum
basis for those really special recruitments.

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By msgmi, March 30, 2010 at 1:06 pm Link to this comment
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GOP family values spent a few grand at a ‘pole-club’. Were Anne Coulter and Michele Malkin performing for the neoCONS?

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