The RNC spent $150K on Palin clothes and accessories
Not only do they buy the Caribou Barbie, they are now paying big bucks to dress the barbie. This all seems like playing house for McCain and his new bride and not a politican campaign for the Presidency of the United States of America! The highest office in the world and you have to use campaign funds to dress a candidate? How low can you go before you bottom out?
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Jeanne Cummings has an amazing find amid the new FEC reports. Initially, the McCain-Palin campaign declined to comment on how, in the words of spokeswoman Maria Comella, "strategic decisions regarding how financial resources available to the campaign are spent."
But late tonight, the campaign decided to do just that, putting out a statement from spokeswoman Tracey Schmitt saying: "It was always the intent that the clothing go to a charitable purpose after the campaign."
The Republican National Committee appears to have spent more than $150,000 to clothe and accessorize vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin and her family since her surprise pick by John McCain in late August.
According to financial disclosure records, the accessorizing began in early September and included bills from Saks Fifth Avenue in St. Louis and New York for a combined $49,425.74.
The records also document a couple of big-time shopping trips to Neiman Marcus in Minneapolis, including one $75,062.63 spree in early September.
The RNC also spent $4,716.49 on hair and makeup through September after reporting no such costs in August.
