Posted on 10/19/2010 8:03:37 PM PDT by pissant
Talk about arrogance. Even in the face of a Judicial Watch investigation spotlighting Nancy Pelosi’s abuse of military air craft, the House Speaker shows no signs of slowing down. In fact, Speaker Pelosi may have set a frequent flyer record for taxpayer-financed luxury jet travel.
We recently obtained new documents from the United States Air Force detailing Speaker Pelosi’s use of United States Air Force aircraft between March 2009 and June 2010. And they pretty much tell the same, outrageous story as previous documents we’ve uncovered and released.
Here are the highlights from the newest batch of documents, which we obtained pursuant to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request filed on January 25, 2009:
•Pelosi used the Air Force aircraft for a total of 85 trips, covering 206,264 miles, from March 2, 2009 through June 7, 2010. Pelosi, her guests and Air Force personnel logged a total of 428.6 hours on these flights. •Members of Pelosi’s family were guests on at least two flights. On June 20, 2009, Speaker Pelosi’s daughter, son-in-law and two grandsons joined a flight from Andrews Air Force Base to San Francisco International Air Port. That flight included $143 in on-flight expenses for food and other items. On July 2, 2010, Pelosi took her grandson on a flight from Andrews Air Force Base to Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield, California, which is northeast of San Francisco.
According to previous documents uncovered by Judicial Watch, the Speaker’s military travel cost the United States Air Force $2,100,744.59 over a two-year period —
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Disgusting is not enough.
The higher a monkey climbs. . .the more you see of his a**.
It would be nice to see her as a target of an ethics violation trial next January.
State run media doesn’t care about Dem’s abuse of power. Let a Rep jay walk and it become a ‘talking point’ and how power corrupts.
Don’t call her that! If she really was a witch, she could have used her broom.
Great timing. Plenty of time to get ads out: “A vote for Democratic Congressman Soandso is a vote for more luxury flights for Nancy Pelosi to San Fransisco.”
The new congress should invoice her.
If she does not pay, sue her sorry ass.
She is extremely rich. She can afford it.
Her constituents are the problem. She spits in their faces and they lap it up.
When you think you are Queen, you expect queenly things. ;-)
Bachmann should run for speaker when we take the house and say she will park the plane. I do not think anyone else would do that.
"Even in the face of vicious growling and threatening postures by the 3-pound Yorkie, the burglar showed no signs of leaving the premises...."
Thank God Biden lives in Delaware.
The Speaker of the House is second in line of succession for the Presidency (after the Vice-President). The use of a dedicated jet for travel by the Speaker is a Bush policy instituted for security reasons in the wake of 9/11.
And there is no single plane to "park". The Air Force provides a plane that meets the mission, each time.
It's clear that Pelosi has abused this privilege, but it's not reasonable to expect the Speaker to simply stop using it.
If John Boehner is the next Speaker of the House, he would do well to minimize his travel home to his district. Reportedly, Dennis Hastert flew home every weekend -- something that even Pelosi hasn't done (although she apparently "reserved" a plane almost every weekend and canceled many of them at the last minute).
Someone (anyone), everyone, please tell her opponent’s election team so they can make a commercial out of this.
Tie it in with her video saying it would be the most ethical Congress ever.
Come on, get this info to her challenger, this is commercial material. Let Pelosi sink Pelosi!
Yep, she is draining the swamp alright. Draining it right into her marhsy quagmire.
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