RNC Delegate Took Woman To Hotel Room, Was Robbed

WCCO.com ^ | 9/16/08 | AP

[RobFromGa]

Schwartz is on video here

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

According to the Hotel Ivy website, each room has a safe.

Naive and stoopid.....

[Darren McCarty]

Police say that when he woke, the woman was gone, and the man was missing money, jewelry and other things. The missing items included a $30,000 watch, a $20,000 ring and a $5,000 necklace.

What kind of 29 year old has all that stuff? He's either worked his way up the ladder extremely quickly (possible, but doubtful as he flashed the stuff), or has rich parents. Damn. If I had that money, I would not be flashing it around at bars in unfamiliar territory. If I had a $30K watch, $20K ring, and $5K necklace, I'd be afraid to wear them. My watch is $200.

I was at a business event once with one of the richest people in the US. If you didn't know who he was and saw him there he would have blended in with those of us in work mode. He wasn't wearing $65K in jewerly.

[Darren McCarty]

Can we say...Mr. T ?

Or someone trying (and failing) to be "Face."....pity the fool!

[Cold Heat]

This guy was wearing entirely too much bling to be a GOP delegate.

I'm betting he was a Dem operative or plant. He sounds like a pimp.

[dmz]

With that kind of money, why didn’t he just order a hooker from an escort service?

[Darren McCarty]

Ahh, but there’s no chase. The thrill of the chase is the most important part. (And in his case, probably lots of booze)

[Surtur]

STUPID IS AS STUPID DOES!

[ApplegateRanch]

And where was the other $65,000?

$1,000 cash, and the $64,000 he placed on the value of his lost faith in Humanity.

[WOBBLY BOB]

this was on the front page of the Pioneer Press today.

as if we needed more proof the PP is a biased rag.

[elpadre]

that was for the insurance claim, right??

[steve-b]

The missing items included a $30,000 watch, a $20,000 ring and a $5,000 necklace.

Another account mentioned a $1500 cell phone. WTF kind of cell phone costs $1500? Can it communicate with the dead, or an alien civilization?

I'm starting to smell an insurance scam....

[steve-b]

She tried the same thing at the Democrat convention and made off with a toothbrush, an old Hillery picture and a pair of handcuffs, oh and some food stamps.

I take it from the Hillary pic that, at the Dem convention, she realized that there were opportunities on both sides of the aisle, so to speak.