GOP fires staffer over $1,946 topless club visit

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100330/ap_on_en_ot/us_republicans_spending

The Republican National Committee has fired a staffer who helped organize a $1,946 visit last month to a sex-themed Hollywood club, and the GOP says it will recoup the money from a donor who also participated.

The episode is the latest in a string of questionable spending by the RNC as Republicans prepare for a costly election season in which they hope to take dozens of House and Senate seats from Democrats.

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.

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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.

[Happyhippychick]

1. It's always the repressed ones who turn out to be the submissives.

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2. That good enough?

An unnamed staffer was allegedly fired. That should keep the dames over at Concerned Women for America happy. And quiet. Mission accomplished.

[LiberalFighter]

3. I believe that another article stated that Brown had email

confirming his side of the story that the expense was approved. And he won't be paying for the expense.

[Wednesdays]

4. It's an un-named non-staffer in an undisclosed location

...so, they've given the whole story. Move along now.