Poor Sap Was Just Covering RNC’s Rejected Credit Card At Bondage Strip Club Read more at Wonkette:

[dem mba]

http://wonkette.com/414522/poor-sap-was-just-covering-rncs-rejected-credit-card-at-bondage-strip-club

Jeez, Michael Steele’s Republican Party is just throwing its own loyalists under the bus for the hell of it. Turns out Orange County GOP donor Erik Brown covered the Republicans’ party tab at lesbian-bondage disco-strip-bar Club Voyeur West because the RNC’s credit card was rejected. The RNC staffer reportedly said to Brown, who was sitting at the table, “Please help me out and I’ll be sure you are reimbursed right away by the RNC.” Yeah uh and we’ll make sure to ruin your life, too.

The blog Red County has this whole pathetic story, and while it doesn’t make anyone look good, Erik Brown comes off like a patsy. Not as much of a patsy as our friend Rebecca Schoenkopf suggested yesterday, but still ….

“We’re taking you to the hottest nightclub in town,” the RNC gang partying in LA told Brown. Ha ha, and then he gets to pay for it and then have his business wrecked, by the RNC, who named him as the Guilty Party and then, late last night, finally half-ass admitted it was a Republican Party staffer who made the charge and hosted the sex-show boozing, and then couldn’t pay for it. And now that unnamed staffer has been fired, too. But her name isn’t all over the Internet so she’ll probably get another job with Mary Cheney or whatever. http://www.redcounty.com/one-little-bar-tab-should-put-michael-steele-risk/38245">Red County





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[sharp_stick]

1. I'm sure that will help

the RNC get future donations. Good, the worse those assholes look the happier I am.

[xultar]

2. When you lie down with dogs...

in the end the fleas are the least of your worries.

[nolabear]

23. Or women in dog collars.

[PRETZEL]

3. I'm not sure I follow this,

didn't someone review the RNC expense statements and this charge showed up?

If the RNC was re-imbursing this Brown guy, the expense would be to him, not directly to the club.

[SpiralHawk]

4. You need to be indoctrinated in Republicon Family Values

There are 'special' educational modules on Republicon Family Sexual Deviancy & Bookkeeping.

You obviously have not studied these modules, and thus are unqualified to be a Republicon, or to criticize Republicons.

[Matariki]

5. Likely there is a receipt attached to the expense report.

And the purpose for which a check was written to Brown.

[dem mba]

6. I updated the post so you can follow the link to the Red County blog

there seem to be more details on the whole affair over there. Can't vouch for how accurate it is, but it appears to be well researched.

[xultar]

7. I think you are reading it wrong. RNC had a gig @ the club

the guy who planned it had an issue when his card was declined

Declined guy asked a Patsy named Brown to foot the bill saying that the RNC would hook him up with a reimbursement

When the reimbursement came through the RNC chose to fire Patsy Brown.

Patsy Brown looks like a freak.

RNC ends investigation with a pound of Patsy Brown in the freezer for good measure.

Got it?

[Klukie]

8. It reads as if Brown is a donor... not a staffer

so how could they fire him?

[tammywammy]

12. They fired the staffer

Brown is a donor, staffer asked him to cover the bill when his credit card was declined. Staffer then fills out expense report form, with receipt attached (I assume) and the RNC repays Brown for the charge done on the staffers behalf.

The staffer was fired. The RNC tried to blame this all on Brown at first though.

[brooklynite]

14. They didn't...the staffer was one Allison Meyers

[xultar]

24. I thought they fired the patsy? That seems like it is something they should do.

They shouldn't request the money back from him.
They should get it from her then.

[PRETZEL]

9. This was the thread from yesterday that I was trying to remember

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8044113

[muriel_volestrangler]

13. The person fired is Allison Meyers, director of the RNC’s “Young Eagles” program

http://hotlineoncall.nationaljournal.com/archives/2010/03/rnc_fires_young.php

But the end result still seems to be that the RNC regards evenings at strip clubs as allowable business expenses. If this had just been the 'Young Eagles' taking Brown out for a fun night as friends, they'd have paid him personally, not the RNC. How many people were there that the bill comes to nearly $2,000?

The message is: "Donate to the RNC. Our staffers don't get laid enough, so they need your money to go to strip clubs". Because this isn't the first time they've done this:

That person was aware that this activity was not eligible for reimbursement and had been previously counseled on this very subject.

[SpiralHawk]

18. "Young Chickenhawks" is more likely the accurate descriptor

considering that virtually ALL Republicon 'leaders' and corporate media propaganda pimps are Bona Fide chickenhawks.

[xultar]

25. A WOMAN! Sponsored that event! OMG. Ok.

:hide:

[brooklynite]

10. Um, that actually doesn't make sense...

If Erik Brown paid the Bill on his credit card, then the reimbursement reported in the FEC report should have been for him shouldn't it?

(although, maybe they thought reporting a payment to a strip club would be less embarrassing that reporting a repayment for a bounced credit card?)

[izzybeans]

15. You have to say what its for on expense reports and provide reciepts. He

likely submitted his receipt. Our consultants and contractors do it all the time. The federal grants we operate on account for when, where, and by whom down to the penny. It doesn't matter if its a contracted service or done in house. I doubt the FEC is that thorough, but even if they utilize only half the accounting rules employed by auditors on non-profits they would have caught this.

[muriel_volestrangler]

16. Maybe the expense report was explicit:

"Payment to Erik Brown for bill at Voyeur, West Hollywood" or something.

[brooklynite]

19. Take a look at The RNC filing on the FEC website

Page 1817 has various disbursements for "Belinda Cook" for meals; presumably she paid for them and was reimbursed. Why wouldn't the same thing happened here?

http://query.nictusa.com/pdf/380/10990405380/10990405380.pdf#navpanes=0

[chat_noir]

11. Erik Brown's wife now knows why he was so late that night

[okieinpain]

17. they say brown is going to give the money back.

"The reimbursement was made to a California GOP consultant named Erik Brown, who the committee says has agreed to return the money."

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/campaign-committees/89775-allison-meyers-identified-as-fired-rnc-staffer

[rocktivity]

20. AHA!!! THAT'S what's been bugging me about this story!!!

I asked earlier, "Why did the RNC reimburse the donor in the first place?" Then when I read that the fired staffer "had been warned" that such expenses were not reimbursible. That got me wondering, "Shouldn't whoever APPROVED the payment be fired, too?" Well, now we have the last piece of the puzzle. The RNC was going to pick up the tab but COULDN'T--that's why the reimbursement was approved, and the staffer really IS a scapegoat!

:bounce:
rockivity

[jgraz]

21. Trying hard to feel bad for a fatcat Repuke donor

Nope... still not working..

[PRETZEL]

22. I must still be missing something,

Politico says it confirmed the payment and that it coincides with Voyeur's address and date, but can't confirm who authorized it.

Then they said that Erik Brown was the one who is to be reimbursed supposedly because a staffer's card was declined. Was it a personal card that the staffer wanted to use or was it the RNC card? If it's the staffer's card, then why reference the club's address? If it's the RNC card, was it declined or did the club call the card carrier for authorization?

Why did they even reimburse Erik Brown for a charge that was unauthorized from the beginning. This dude had no formal connection to the RNC. He's apparently either a donor or a consultant. He gets reimbursed from the RNC for the staffer's problem. The RNC is reimbursing an unauthorized charge. OK, I guess I can buy that.

Now Brown is turning around and giving the money back to the RNC. Money he supposedly put out of his own pocket to cover for a RNC staffer that he got reimbursed on after the fact.

Does this sound right?