Posted on 04/08/2009 4:01:02 PM PDT by lewisglad
Closing a loop on the campaign finance side of the Sarah Palin clothes saga, the Republican National Committee late last month filed an amended report detailing exactly which disbursements were clothing purchases for the Republican vice presidential candidate and her family.
The amended report shows that the committee paid about $23,000 for clothing in the three weeks before and after Election Day — which is actually $7,000 less than previously reported.
That new report brings the total Palin clothing costs paid by the RNC down and also makes it easier to spot clothing purchases that had previously gone undetected.
For instance, a $192 payment to the Philadelphia Flyers pro shop previously described as “campaign accessories” was recategorized as “candidate clothing,” possibly for either the Flyers hockey jersey Palin reportedly received with her name and the No. 1 on the back before dropping a ceremonial puck or the one that her younger daughter, Piper, wore at the game.
Similarly, a $289 payment to high-end shoemaker Stuart Weitzman, which had been described as “retail” and “accessories,” became “candidate clothing.”
The report also details a number of clothing payments to retailers not known for their sartorial selection, including $49 to a UPS Store near running mate John McCain’s Arizona ranch; $144 to CVS stores in Ohio, Florida and Wisconsin; and $426 to various Walgreens stores.
The RNC did not respond to requests for comment about the amended report or the fate of the clothes, which were to have been donated to charity.
The amended report came at the behest of the Federal Election Commission, which last month ordered the committee to “include a brief statement or description of why the [accessory] expenditures were made” on behalf of the McCain-Palin campaign.
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We were. I wonder if the Old Grey Lady, or the Washington Compost are going to 'amend' their stories about Sarah Palin's clothing expenses.
I, for one, won't be holding my breath waiting for their retractions.
Don’t forget about those Green Columns at the Democratic Convention..That alone cost a million bucks
Doesn’t the FEC allocate a certain amount for each party’s convention?.... I assume each convention can spend it as they want to with some guidelines I’m sure.
I think you just answered your own question.
Why was this ever news. You mean to tell me that no money was spent by the Dems on clothes for the Obamas?
Oh no this is all over now, what is David Frum going to talk about on his blog?
In other words, now that no one will notice or care, we learn that there really was nothing to the whole affair. The liberal media just wanted to smear Governor Palin, and they succeeded. Their dishonesty must be avenged someday.
“Palin/Anyone but Huckabee in 2102!”
Lol, I like it :) I could get behind that ticket!
Exactly. The MSM manufactures stories out of nothing. Case in point — all of the misleading headlines on Mitt Romney stories that do not support anything in the actual article. They know most people run off hysterical without reading the whole article.
I guess that should be hysterically.
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