Breakfast at DQ
I had coffee and Alfredo Eggs (scrambled with pico and a fresh tortilla) over at the Dairy Queen this morning. It’s World Series day and nobody takes that lightly around here.
So, anyway, Alfredo was showing me some real interesting stuff at the Republican National Committee’s FEC forms, and I know you guys love these things, too.
For example
B RILEY FBR INC 1300 NORTH 17TH STREET SUITE 203 ARLINGTON, Virginia 22209 09/05/2019 BUILDING MAINTENANCE 780.00
There’s nothing wrong with maintaining your building but having an investment bank do it probably isn’t a smart decision. B Riley FBR is not a janitorial or construction company. It’s an investment bank. Maybe they cleaned up but I don’t think it involved a mop or windex.
And here’s another one.
EVAN ESTRATE – VENDOR 1229 AIRPORT PULLING ROAD NORTH NAPLES, Florida 34104 09/27/2019 OFFICE SUPPLIES 3,250.00
Well, you gotta have office supplies, but if you check out that address, you find an auto body shop. Did somebody get drunk and dent a fender and had to hide it? I dunno and neither do you because what the hell?
You can have a look around and see if you can find any. Hell, you ain’t got nothing better to do and neither do I.
Thanks to Alfredo for breakfast and a heads up.
For the uninformed, what penalties are incurred for misinforming the FEC to the tune of ~$4,000?
1Yeah, well, we just like to jack with them.
2I don’t know why, but the RNC keeps calling me asking for a donation. True, back in the 80s I gave them a check for 1 cent, figuring the cost of keeping track of it and automatically mailing me future requests would vastly outweigh whatever benefit it bought them. But come on, that was 35 years ago!
Anyway, I’ve copied these tidbits to a file and like to read them to whatever fool calls, asking if that’s what the money would be spent on. Especially the vain attempts that Ronna Romney McDaniels makes to look pretty. And last night, I think I got some old codger who actually listened and was horrified. At the end, I got a “I’ll have to look into that”, which is the best you can get from a RNC drone.
So: thank you, JJ, and especially Alfredo. Also, now I gotta see if the local DQ will also serve up eggs with pico de gallo and tortillas …
3Actually, they got pretty creative: “janitorial” for money laundering, “auto body repair” for pushing out dents in reputation, covering up.
4Present TED penalties are zip, zero, nada, nothing, the big bagel, the goose egg, because it lacks enough members to constitute a quorum. Guess who is behind that?
5well done, Surly Prof.
6Linda Phipps@4: but all the flowers and floral displays that Alfredo showed the RNC buying are for what we would use them for: to cover up the smell of swamp creatures. Plus for the funerals for any sense of ethics, morality, or decency that died when they started working for the Repub Party.
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