President Obama with Barb Starz, Dax Schieffer and Brian Stumpf of Big Sky Resort. Photo courtesy of Big Sky Resort
Posted on 08/20/2009 11:53:52 AM PDT by kristinn
The White House booked 400 (FOUR HUNDRED) hotel rooms at the Big Sky Resort for Barack Obama's overnight visit last week for a town hall meeting in nearby Bozeman, Montana. Two floors were completely taken over, including the penthouse suites.
While the national news media is ignoring the story, local media let the news slip in their gushing stories of how thrilling it was to have Obama in their midst.
The Bozeman Daily Chronicle reported on Tuesday on Obama's visit, quoting Big Sky Resort spokesman Dax Schieffer:
The First Family stayed in one of the eight penthouses on the tenth floor of Big Sky Resort’s Summit Hotel on Friday night, said resort spokesman Dax Schieffer. The entire tenth and ninth floor were reserved for the Obamas and family as well as White House and Secret Service staff.
“All in all we had about 400 people as part of the group,” Schieffer said.
NewWest.net spoke with Big Sky Resort general manager Taylor Middleton for an article published Sunday:
“We ultimately had 400 rooms reserved,” said Middleton, noting that there were various entities within the Presidential entourage - security, press, admin staff, culinary staff - and their arrangements were “somewhat coordinated and somewhat uncoordinated.”
President Obama with Barb Starz, Dax Schieffer and Brian Stumpf of Big Sky Resort. Photo courtesy of Big Sky Resort
From Montana, Obama and his entourage went on to Boulder, Colorado on Saturday for another town hall and then flew to Phoenix, Arizona Saturday night for a speech to the VFW convention on Monday. Obama and entourage stayed at The Phoenician which describes itself as "Your Premier Luxury Destination". There are no apparent media reports on how many rooms the White House took at the Phoenician, but it would seem that 400 rooms would be consistent with the trip.
Obama and his family took time for various sightseeing and recreational activities on their Western tour.
Obama is scheduled to vacation next week at the 28.5 acre Blue Heron Farm in Martha's Vineyard.
The Vineyard Gazette reports weekly rentals for comparable properties run from $35,000 to $50,000.
There is no word yet on how many rooms will be rented by the White House for staff staying on Martha's Vineyard with Obama.
“400 Hotel Rooms Booked by White House for Obama Visit to Montana (Marxist Pig Alert)”
“Animal Farm”
He’s a one man economic recovery machine
When I was a musician on the road we were flown into Big Sky to perform for the owners and mucky mucks. Huge storm came in and we couldn't play due to a major power outage. The people there were totally drunk and very pissed that they didn't have any music. We couldn't get any food, water, etc., and about midnight a sweet young man who worked there secretly whisked us out of there, through the blizzard, to the Bozeman airport. He said the drunks were being very threatening towards us. We officially renamed the place “Pig Sty, Montana”.
Heh.
background ping
Do any of the White House personnel double up in a room? Or do they all get private rooms/suites? Any relative size of entourage w/GWB?
we’re paying for all these vacations for this family.
ask yourself this.
What has the first lady actually done besides going to Europe, Africa and going on vacations with our money.
infact they even take a cousin who cannot even find clothes which fit and a mother in law who lives in the white house who is freeloading
course I expect the state run media to ask questions about this
United States of Zimbabwe. These dictators are all alike....the dictators live like kings while the people struggle and starve.
I just learned today about a family 2 doors down from my sister in Seattle - very nice house, can’t sell it, father had a successful business but now hasn’t had any business for 6 months. They are selling their belongings and will have to walk away from a house they must have paid about 750k for.
...meaning Bozeman's ethos parallels that of the City of Angels?
Obama spends millions of taxpayer dollars for prolonged visits to the most elite resorts and the media has no comment on it. None.
How many of these same 400 Obamanites were then packed in to stack the Townhall?
They did. I can’t remember offhand but didn’t Bush take an overseas trip to Japan or something like that and the press/DNC screamed holy hell for a week about the amount of people who went with him?
I’ll have to dig around for an old article.
They needed rooms for all the townhall “attendees”.
Chances are he takes members of the media along for the ride.
I want them to issue a report on the “carbon footprint” of this entourage. The flatulence alone must be astronomical!
this first lady provides us with occasional humor about her appearance and wardrobe ... that’s all I can think of.
apparently they took enough people to populate the meeting hall.
packing the house against public opinion. We can’t have the president going around the country facing people who oppose his policies.
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