Posted on 01/27/2011 11:59:39 AM PST by La Lydia
Because thats what the United State Air Force is there for no, wait? Judicial Watch announced today that it has obtained new documents from the US Air Force detailing House Speaker Nancy Pelosis use of US Air Force aircraft in 2010. According to the documents, obtained through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), Pelosi used Air Force aircraft for 43 flights from January 1 to October 1, 2010. According to documents previously uncovered...Nancy Pelosi logged 47 flights in the prior nine-month period, April 1, 2009, to January 1, 2010.
The most recent documents...include a Passenger Mission Activity chart detailing all of former Speaker Pelosis flights January 1 to October 1, 2010, as well as detailed shopping lists for some flights, flight authorization forms, Mission Expense Records and internal Air Force correspondence related to the flights. Among the highlights from the documents, obtained pursuant to a FOIA request filed on September 10, 2010:
Pelosi used the Air Force aircraft for a total of 43 trips, covering 90,155 miles, from January 1 through October 1, 2010. The Air Force documented in-flight expenses for 22 of these flights totaling $1,821.33. The Air Force did not provide expense information for the remaining 21 flights.
Former Speaker Pelosi received chocolate covered strawberries as a birthday surprise on a March 26, 2010 flight. According to one internal Air Force email sent on March 25, 2010: The speakers office is requesting egg salad sandwiches on wheat toast with fruit (watermelon, etc) for desert [sic]. Its the speakers B-Day tomorrow so were also asking for something like chocolate covered strawberries (dark chocolate preferred) The immediate response to the email from another member of the Air Force staff: Copy all. Well plan something for the birthday and take care of the meal.
According to previous documents uncovered by Judicial Watch, the former Speakers military travel cost the United States Air Force $2,100,744.59 over one two-year period $101,429.14 of which was for in-flight expenses, including food and alcohol. For example, purchases for one Pelosi-led congressional delegation traveling from Washington, DC, through Tel Aviv, Israel to Baghdad, Iraq May 15-20, 2008, included: Johnny Walker Red scotch, Grey Goose vodka, E&J brandy, Baileys Irish Cream, Makers Mark whiskey, Courvoisier cognac, Bacardi Light rum, Jim Beam whiskey, Beefeater gin, Dewars scotch, Bombay Sapphire gin, Jack Daniels whiskey, Corona beer and several bottles of wine....
She hates the military, unless its to serve her pompous as*. Same way Hillary Clinton felt about them. Its a liberal thing, doncha know?
What corruption!
Why is she not being investigated, arrested and charged?
$83 per flight? Did they misplace a decimal point?
Despite the efforts to make it sound extravagant, there's nothing very damning here. The laundry list of bottles at the end of the story is an effective rhetorical flourish, but it could have been summarized as "a stocked bar."
And there won't be anything damning when someone on the left writes basically the same story about Boehner, because I assume congressional delegations won't be brown-bagging it in the 112th Congress.
Hey Stretch P., what was your slogan... "Let them eat cake." right?
How is she flying now??
Is this corrupt trash still using OUR US Air Force aircraft????
How very nouveau riche of her.
The nouveau riche are so obvious. But, she did have quite the bar and I don’t mean in lawyer terms.
No. She has to fly commercial now, and the wonderful thing is, she has to drive all the way from the Capitol out to Dulles to do it, because you can’t get direct flights to the West Coast out of Reagan. It is at least an hour’s drive, depending on the time of day it could be longer.
He doesn't have as far to go to his district.
He also said he would fly commercial.
After 9/11 it was an executive branch decision that the Speaker be transported by military aircraft. Hastert took that to mean a lear or small Gulfstream. Pelosi didn’t want to have to stop and wanted to take lots of people with her and was demanding a 757.
She always has her broom...
That's an average of more than 5 flights per month!
Taxpayer Paid Jet Used by Queen Pelosi
USAF C-32, 200-seat, Boeing 757 jet airliner
About those aircrew.
A while back there was a story ran about pelosi and her plane. pelosi would keep her 757 on standby for every Friday afternoon. Ground crew and air crew had to be ready to go when the princess decided to go back to cali. Sometimes she would call to cancel her plans and sometimes she would not. Her elitism has no bounds.
bump
Thank you. You made my day.
Have to agree, her silliness isn’t necessarily out of dislike for the military (altho she almost certain feels that way) but rather like Barry, its all about her. Its 24x7 Nancy in her world. What I don’t understand is how so many inflated egos can coexist in the tiny space of DC. It seems completely impossible! This has to violate some natural law. LOL...
How do you know she didn’t?? One wonders and maybe if that question is Twitted it’d get back to her.
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