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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 charissa, March 22, 2012 at 11:40 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 ribbie149, March 30, 2010 at 2:56 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 2:55 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 2:06 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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