Nancy Pelosi's $2 million in travel junkets is starting to get noticed

American Thinker ^ | 01/23/2019 | Monica Showalter

[SeekAndFind]

Not only was President Trump's masterly counter-move against House speaker Nancy Pelosi an expert power play against the speaker's bid to take the television set away from him at the State of the Union, but it drew attention to something that doesn't get much attention, the fact that she's got some Imelda Marcos-style spending habits in state-financed travel.

According to the Daily Caller, citing Judicial Watch:

Pelosi's trip to Italy and Ukraine from July 30 to Aug. 6, 2015, cost the Air Force $184,587.81, according to documents released Saturday under a 2015 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit by Judicial Watch.  Her delegation was made up of nine other members of Congress, including Democratic Reps. Anna Eshoo of California and Marcia Fudge of Ohio.

Four family members, including Pelosi's husband Paul Pelosi, were on the trip.  The delegation dined at restaurants including James Beard American Restaurant in Milan, where a five-course meal cost up to $190, according to Fine Dining Lovers.  The lawmakers also toured the Vatican and met up with Italian dignitaries, including President Sergio Mattarella and then-Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, according to their itinerary.

It gets worse.  According to Judicial Watch itself:

Beginning in 2009, after the media failed to follow up on concerns raised about Nancy Pelosi's use of luxury Air Force jets to travel between her congressional district and DC, Judicial Watch's Freedom of Information act requests exposed her abuse of this travel perk.  Judicial Watch uncovered that Pelosi's 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.

[duckman]

Nothing much will happen to her. It only ‘ticks’ off the tax payers. IMO

[butlerweave]

She’s third in line for President so lets see her Taxes

[brownsfan]

Noticed? By Judicial Watch?

Pfffft. Pelosi could not care less, the media has her back, the public will never know. Well, that is the masses. We know, it grinds us, and that suits Pelosi just fine.

[Openurmind]

Here’s the deal... It’s not just her, it’s ALL of them. It’s very bipartisan and should be stopped.

[lowbridge]

Shes worth like almost a couple hundred million, but takes herself and family on exotic trips so that they can travel for free at the taxpayers expense.

[New Jersey Realist]

Her trips are a vacation under the guise of government business. She also has the Air Force fly her home just about every weekend. All this must be claimed on her income tax. Any bets?

[Dr. Sivana]

And think of the persecution poor John Sununu got as CHIEF OF STAFF for taking military jets, and even for having a driver and a car instead so he could work on presidential papers while going home to New Hampshire or trips northeast.

[Diogenesis]

who supplies the botoxin/adrenochrome mix
she uses?

is it obtained from Clintons, Haiti, Samoa,
or Adam S.?

[butlerweave]

Free gifts ? Is she paying taxes on this ?

[Liz]

ACTION NOW: Call President Trump: Comments: 202-456-1111 Switchboard: 202-456-1414
US CONGRESS SWITCHBOARD: (202) 224-3121

TALKING POINTS:
<><>Can Pelosi account for all the tax dollars flowing into her office?
<><> Can Pelosi account for $50,000 advance for a "USAF escort officer" on just one of her many trips?
<><> were these trips declared on her and her hubby's income tax returns?

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Cease all military travel by elected members. Pelosi and her husband are multi-millionaires----
and so are the rest. Taxpayers will no longer finance luxury travel for these people.

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[GailA]

Final Obama travel tab: $100 million Judicial Watch

[Qiviut]

Monica references an article by Kurt Schlicter but gave no links .... here’s the FR thread & direct link:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3721576/posts

https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2019/01/21/everyone-who-takes-on-trump-ends-up-crushed-n2539336

From the article:

Nancy Pelosi made the mistake of buying her own hype and thinking she could go troll-to-troll against him. Big mistake. She thought she could high-hat him by kinda/sorta rescinding her State of the Union address invitation. “Take that!” sneered the mainstream media, pretending that her concern for security during the shutdown was the motivation and not her terror at the thought of the President having a huge audience hear him explain why the Democrat position of letting murderers, rapists, drug dealers and welfare cheats flood into our unprotected country is a bad idea.

So, Trump waits until she and the rest of her pals are on a bus ready to jet off to party in Europe with a fig leaf stopover in Afghanistan and then he pulls the plug. We get delightful footage of dejected ugly Americans filing off the bus, their boondoggle delayed until they do their damn job. Glorious.

And the best part of Junketgate was the parade of neckbeard Vox virgins and the MSNBCNN doofusi bemoaning how now our poor troops were cruelly deprived of a visit by Nancy Pelosi. Because if anyone knows what our troops want, it’s neckbeard Vox virgins and the MSNBCNN doofusi.

USO cheerleader squad tours? Yes, those are popular visitors. Withered Washington crones, not so much. Anyone who’s served overseas knows exactly what a giant pain it is to host a bunch of bored congressjerks who are constantly complaining because there’s no booze while they endure their three-hour stopover in the rear echelon as the price of their European shopping spree. Been there, done that.

[Buckeye McFrog]

translation: AOC and the Radical Young Turks are easing her out to pasture.

[Liz]

Piglosi pretended her concern for security during the shutdown was the motivation for cancelling the SOTU.....
not her terror at the thought of Pres Trump having a huge audience hear him explain why Democrats letting
murderers, rapists, drug dealers and welfare cheats flood into our unprotected country is a bad idea.

Pelosi in Mexico says Trump "is speaking to an insecure minority, who maybe lost their job and think it was because
of immigration, of trade. I think it's putting too much weight on all this. He only has one half of one half, 25%."

The 2016 delegation also included Democratic Reps. Norma Torres, Lucille Roybal-Allard, Pete Aguilar and Linda Sanchez (Calif.); Beto O'Rourke and Henry Cuellar (Texas); Ruben Gallego (Ariz.); Michelle Lujan Grisham (N.M.); and Republicans Michael Fitzpatrick (Pa.) and Richard Hanna (N.Y.).

Beto sucked-up bigtime for latino votes....but still lost Texas.

[Liz]

[angcat]

Death won’t come calling either.

[deport]

Noticed? By Judicial Watch?

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Yep still doing the same from back in the Larry Klayman days.
I bet Larry wishes he’d never left for a Senate run in 2004.

[main st.]

karma!!

[all the best]

This is why “don’t tread on me” is such a joke. We have all been tread on for a long, long time.