Other People’s Money
I suspect that by now you’ve realized that Republicans never use their own money when they can get someone else to pick up the tab. That’s what makes them Republicans – they are cheap and greedy.
Republican Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell has been telling people that his daughter paid for her own wedding. That’s not quite true. Actually I did not say that correctly. That’s not true at all.
Virginia Gov. Robert F. McDonnell has said his daughter and her husband paid for their own wedding. So a $15,000 check from a major campaign donor to pay for the food at the affair was a gift to the bride and groom and not to him and therefore did not have to be publicly disclosed under the law, the governor says.
Although all evidence is that every damn thing for this wedding – including the dress – was given for free to the lucky couple only because her daddy is the Governor of Damn Virginia, Bob McDonnell didn’t report any of these lovely gifts.
Now, I’m not saying the Guv is a tight with his own money but when he smiles his toes curl. Word has it that he told his daughter he’d pay for the honeymoon then sent her through a car wash and told her it was Niagara Falls.
And even though evidence proves that both the Guv and his wife provided favors in exchange for the cash and gifts thrown at his daughter for the wedding, the Guv is still saying his daughter paid it herself. Yeah, with money from people who stand to benefit from favors from the Guv.
And to mix a little misery into the Guv’s tranquility, the Washington Post is all over it, leaving the Gov to stand there with a look on is face that would make a teevee evangelist ashamed. That’s pretty damn low.
Y’all, I hate these grubby people. God help me, I do. Somewhere else in Virginia, a young woman and her daddy worked extra hours to pay for her wedding while the Guv just pimps his daughter out. They have no shame, and that right there is a shame for sure.
Thanks to Rick for the heads up.
Oh, JJ. The Guv has long been considered a “sensible” candidate for the GOP in 2016. Hah! Hah! Another one bites the dust . . .
1Well, that was just tacky. Legal, but tacky. Legal, but unethical.
2No, no – the Governor’s daughter earned all those presents through her hard work and general merit. It certainly was not because her daddy was governor – no more than the reason George W Bush got into Yale was because of HIS daddy’s connections.
3Oh stop now…not one of you in here can say there’s anything odd about plopping down a fifteen thousand dollar check for the food at wedding of a business acquaintance’s daughter. We’ve all done it.
Next thing I know you’ll be saying there’s something out of line about spending $20k on nuptial vittles.
4Guv (Vagina Probe) Mcdonnell doesn’t have a very high opinion of women. Pimping out his daughter for free reception food and a wedding dress is tame compared to the thesis he wrote at Regent’s. He is a “moderate” Republican, my skinny, wrinkled white butt!
5http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2009/09/10/mcdonnell-thesis-heats-up-virginia-governors-race
Well, pimping his daughter out is the “free market” at its finest.
6Here in Illinois, within the last decade corruption charges by the Feds took down two governors (Ryan and Blagojevich) as well as Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. and dozens of other state and local officials. In one of the elements of Ryan’s case, it was established that all five of his daughter benefited from the misuse of campaign funds. So far as McDonnell’s daughter and son-in-law are concerned, the argument that the $15,000 was a gift directly to them is one dog that just won’t walk.
7I believe there is a saying…. “Hang ‘Em High”. Smear them all the way to hell and back.
8Didn’t the Rethugs used to call themselves “The Moral Majority”?
9Hypocrisy, thy name is GOP.
Yes, Virginia, there are Santa Clauses.
10He’s a tool and a shame to the state that produced George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and . . . . . . . . never mind. I live in Virginia and it’s full of loons. Unfortunately two legged ones. If you think McDonnell’s bad, heaven help us if his Attorney General wins the next election. Cuccinelli carries bat guano crazy to a whole different level.
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