Who Pays? We do!
Bush is coming to Charleston. His intent is to attend a fundraiser at a private residence for Shelley Moore Capito.
A question arose on Talkline this morning about who paid for the trip. Most callers wrongly said, well of course the campaign would pay for all expenses.
Not so.
But first let's look logically at this. Which campaign? Capito's? Hardly. She hopes to raise 400,000 this evening. If her campaign were to pay travel costs for the president there would be nothing left.
The GOP possibly could pay expenses but why wouldn't they simply funnel the money to her in other manners? Surely presidential expenses are going to almost equal tonight's goals.
No, dear hearts, this visit will be paid for as others have been. By the American taxpayer. During the campaign when Bush stopped in WV, it wasn't billed as a campaign stop so the government footed the bills. Bush is going to be giving out a service award at the airport this afternoon when he arrives. Bet me that this is going to be used as an excuse for his being here and the fundraiser will be an after thought.
Hoppy Kerchival, talkline host, said this morning that he would look into this issue. I hope he does.
posted by Senihele @ 2:54 PM
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Back during the 2002 campaign, George W. Bush visited the town where I live, Las Cruces, New Mexico. They landed Air Force One out at our dinky municipal airport that lies on the mesa west of the city (I don't know why he didn't land at the international airport in El Paso, only 40 miles away).
Anyhow, when they landed, the runway wasn't built to handle large planes, and it ripped up the runway. It was just two months ago that they finally sent in the money to fix the runway Bush tore up coming here on a campaign stop.
First off, he only came because they knew John Kerry was also going to be making a stop, and New Mexico was one of the "battleground" states. It's bad enough how much taxpayer dollars are spent shuttling him around during his own campaigning, but doing the same thing so he can plug for some republican off wherever, regardless of the state, is totally ridiculous.
It is ridiculous but it's a pattern of spending he used during the election as well. He billed his stops as presidential visits and not campaign stops so we, the people, ended up paying for them.
Gotta love the corrupt, self-serving world of politics. It's extremely disillusioning to see how rampant the corruption is in politics, and how something like this, to them, isn't even considered a big deal. Taxpayer dollars? Who cares! At this point, Republicans, Democrats, Independent, they're all the same, wolves in sheep clothing.
It's that empirical attitude that suggests whatever the king wants he should have.
I see our political process declining further into Kaos. They need to start caring before the system falls completely apart.
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