Big Donors do not like hims. Tea Partiers despise him and now the Fundies will be calling for his head. It won't be the Bondage club it will be the accumulated gaffes and insensitivity to publc appearances. But here is what makes this great. There is going to be an absolute was over his replacement. Grab the Popcorn folks this is gonna be fun to watch..
The Republican National Committee is pushing back hard Monday on a story in The Daily Caller, telling POLITICO that Chairman Michael Steele was “never” at a bondage-themed nightclub in West Hollywood, Calif., as the publication suggests.
Buried in a Daily Caller story claiming that Steele suggested buying a private jet with RNC funds is the statement that “Steele travels in style,” citing, among other things, $1,946.25 “spent at Voyeur West Hollywood, a bondage-themed nightclub featuring topless women dancers imitating lesbian sex.”
POLITICO confirmed the RNC expense by examining the committee’s February Federal Election Commission filing. POLITICO also confirmed that the information provided on $1,946 in RNC funds spent Feb. 4 matches the nightclub’s Santa Monica address. The report, however, does not say who actually made the expenditure at the club.
Daily Caller Founder Tucker Carlson defended the story to POLITICO and said his outlet intends to provide more details on the reporting of the story. He also questioned the accuracy of the RNC’s response. For now, the only official response offered by the Daily Caller comes in a short post about the RNC’s comment.
“Jonathan Strong, who broke the story about the RNC’s expenditures at a Hollywood strip club, asked about the strip club expense, and was rebuffed by an RNC spokesperson who said that the organization doesn’t comment on specific expenditures,” the post reads.
The nightclub’s website was down Monday morning, and a phone call to the club’s promoter was not returned.
An RNC spokesperson told POLITICO that the committee is “investigating the expenditure in question" and went on to question the reporting behind the story.
“The story willfully and erroneously suggests that the expenditure in question was one belonging to the chairman,” the spokesperson said. “This was a reimbursement made to a noncommittee staffer. The chairman was never at the location in question; he had no knowledge of the expenditure; nor does he find the use of committee funds at such a location at all acceptable.”
“Good reporting would make that distinction crystal clear,” the spokesperson added. “The committee has requested that the monies be returned to the committee and that the story be corrected so that it is accurate.”
The spokesperson also contended in an e-mail to POLITICO that a number of pieces of the story are “factually inaccurate,” including claims that the RNC has refused to explain the circumstances in which Steele used chartered flights and that Steele declined interview opportunities.
“The piece repeated
talks about ‘Steele’s expenses,’ when quite often they are finance/fundraising expenses and not just for the expenditure in question,” the spokesperson e-mailed. “Though I made a clear distinction with Jonathan , his story fails to do so.”
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0310/35148.html#ixzz0jaTPjAcU
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