Rising Hegemon
She was a 25-year-old junior staffer when the Florida Republican Party gave her an American Express card.
Over the next 2½ years, nearly $1.3 million in charges wound up on Melanie Phister's AmEx — $40,000 at a London hotel, and nearly $20,000 in plane tickets for indicted former House Speaker Ray Sansom, his wife and kids, for starters. Statements show thousands spent on jewelry, sporting goods and in one case $15,000 for what's listed as a month-long stay at a posh Miami Beach hotel, but which the party says was a forfeited deposit.
The credit card records, obtained by the St. Petersburg Times and Miami Herald, offer the latest behind-the-scenes look at extravagant and free-wheeling spending by the party touting fiscal restraint. Not only did certain elite legislative leaders have their own party credit cards to spend donors' money with little oversight, but Phister's records show these leaders also liberally used an underling's card — without her knowledge, she says.
Somebody HAS to find a way to blame this one on Obama (or Michael Steele for that matter).
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"I did not have the sole discretion to initiate credit card spending," Phister said in an e-mail statement. "Over that period of time, there were multiple instances when the card was used to make purchases that I had no knowledge of, and I did not regularly review the monthly credit card statements which I understand were sent directly to the Party's accounting office."
Sounds like she's in it well past her Birkenstocks, and has already lawyered up (at GOP expense, of course -- she knows where the bodies are buried).
Well, you can thank Bill Clinton's free-spending, liberal permissive society for setting the precedent for this.
This poor young Republican lady Melanie Phister was only following in Clinton's footsteps, but just you watch, the MSM will try to scapegoat Ms. Phister and completely ignore Bill Clinton's role in this scandal... it just makes me SO MAD I could go blow up a bunch of mailboxes or something.
Shame on the MSM, and shame on Bill Clinton!
-Olive's and Arrow's
Phister????
The jokes write themselves.
i love it that the brainwashed returds money went down a septic tank.
Grifting... it's not just for Sarah Palin any more....
Grifting... it's not just for Sarah Palin any more....
Grifting....the other white feat.
You're right, Sorghum Crow -- I should have said she's in it well past her elbows. My bad.
"but Phister's records show these leaders also liberally used an underling's card — without her knowledge"
How could it be "without her knowledge" if she had records?
Sounds like yet another Liberty University grad got a job with the Repubes.
Shame on the MSM, and shame on Bill Clinton!
Bill Clinton has already suffered enough shame. Donchya think?
.....bad enough that he got caught with that fat chick.......ease up on the poor guy, would ya?
follow the credit cards and see what plastic money will buy. vox
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