RNC finds scapegoat, fires staffer

[babylonsister]

RNC fires staffer behind controversy


By KENNETH P. VOGEL | 3/29/10 10:48 PM EDT


A Republican National Committee staffer who accompanied a group of young donors to a bondage-themed West Hollywood club and then expensed the nearly $2,000 tab has been fired by the committee, POLITICO has learned.

RNC Chief of Staff Ken McKay announced the firing in an internal committee email obtained by POLITICO.

“This was not an RNC sanctioned event and was not associated in any way with any RNC official event,” McKay wrote of the February outing to Voyeur, a West Hollywood club modeled after the risqué Tom Cruise-Nicole Kidman movie “Eyes Wide Shut.”

The late-night excursion followed an official RNC event in Los Angeles for donors in its “Young Eagles” program, McKay wrote, stressing that neither Chairman Michael Steele nor any senior staff were aware of either the outing or the committee’s reimbursement of the cost.

McKay wrote that the fired staffer, who is not named in the email, “was aware that this activity was not eligible for reimbursement and had been previously counseled on this very subject. Accordingly, that staff person has been terminated.”

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[opihimoimoi]

1. What??? SO EASY??? whad waz hiz name??? Where is the Clarity/ Sanity,/ and Cleansing??

[zbdent]

5. he probably was hired just so he could be fired ...

I wonder how much he's getting in "severance pay" (aka "hush money" ... for taking the fall)

[DrDan]

2. scapegoat sounds right - I have a feeling he was offered a lucrative position to take the fall

[DCKit]

3. I'd say "Hey, at least it was a straight club this time" but it wasn't.

Them young chickenhawks was ogling Lebanese chicks in glass boxes.

At what age do they turn and become obsessed with buttsex? The old chickenhawks are ALL about the buttsex. I'd claim some kind of evolution of the RightWingnut species, but they'd dispute that.

[BrklynLiberal]

4. the repukes have virtually perfected the art of scapegoating.

[lpbk2713]

6. Until they provide a name it's all just more GOP bullshit.

For now the story should be "RNC allegedly fires staffer behind controversy".

People know what sort of smoke and mirrors bullshit to expect from them by now.

[eppur_se_muova]

7. O.Z.Staffer takes another hit his party! nt