Hillary Designer: Palin Spending Strange
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The Price Tag For Politics
The RNC is being criticized for buying designer duds for Sarah Palin while the rest of the country goes without, reports Meg Oliver.
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Palin's Pricey Wardrobe
She may wish to portray a "Joe Six-Pack" persona to voters, but as Nancy Cordes reports, Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin has spent six figures on her wardrobe in the last 3 months.
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CBS News has confirmed that the Republican National Committee spent up to $150,000 on what appears to be wardrobe and makeup spending at high end department stores for the GOP Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin.
But one of the most famous political fashion designers of the year, Susanna Chung Forest, who designed Hillary Clinton’s pantsuits says it would be unusual for a candidate as famous as Sarah Palin to need to buy clothes.
“Why do you need to pay for it?” Forest told CBS News from her boutique Susanna Beverly Hills saying that most designers would offer to clothe a candidate for free. “It’s an honor, you are going to design for someone who could be the president of the United States,” noting that the exposure any designer would get from dressing someone as famous as Clinton or Palin would be worth much more.
The Los Angeles Times reported earlier this year that Senator Clinton’s custom made pantsuits from Forest were worth about $6,350 a piece retail. Clinton’s spokespeople did not respond to requests for comment.
The McCain campaign responded to the Palin wardrobe spending with the following statement, “With all of the important issues facing the country right now, it’s remarkable that we are spending time talking about pantsuits and blouses. It was always the intent that the clothing go to a charitable purpose after the campaign,” said spokesperson Tracey Schmitt.
Spending over a hundred thousand dollars on a wardrobe is a sharp bump since her days as governor. Matt Simon, reporter from the CBS News Anchorage affiliate says he jokingly asked the governor 'who she was wearing' for the inaugural ball and she responded that she didn’t know. During an interview with KTVA soon after she was elected Palin told the station that her kids were bugging her to get some new clothes.
FEC officials say campaigns are allowed to spend on personal use items but it must be an item that "would exist irrespective if they were not a candidate or office holder", i.e. clothing, mortgage payments, country club fees, etc.
However, the political party (such as the Republican National Committee) can make coordinated expenditures with the candidate’s campaign of up to $19.2 million dollars. The FEC says the possible outstanding question is: Are coordinated expenditures the same as if it were the campaign? The FEC tells CBS News that to determine this someone would have to file a complaint and then the FEC would investigate.
The Obama campaign says it has paid for hair and makeup costs for the Obamas and the Bidens associated with interviews or events but campaign officials say neither the campaign nor the Democratic National Committee(DNC) has paid for clothing.
A CBS News review of DNC and Obama campaign expenditures did not find any similar purchases.
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See all 633 CommentsObama talks about dressing on a budget see video on Access Hollywood.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/22/the-obamas-discuss-dressi_n_137009.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/22/obamas-shoes-a-historical_n_136924.html
You put too much chicken feed on the same keys of your keyboard. The chicken keep hitting the same keys. Spread the feed all over your keyboard so we can get a different post.
Without her, McCain would have looked like grandpa not like a macho man.
Hiding the lack of knowlege requires a LOT of expensive clothin from the ees of hockey moms and plumbers.
TROOPERGATE: She will talk to Personnel Board investigator.
By RACHEL D%u2019ORO
The Associated Press
Published: October 22nd, 2008 04:24 AM
Last Modified: October 22nd, 2008 10:51 AM
Gov. Sarah Palin, already found by one investigation to have abused her power, will take time from her vice presidential campaign Friday to give a deposition in a second inquiry into her firing of the state%u2019s top public safety official. It will be the first deposition in the affair by the Republican vice
350.00 pales in comparison to 150,000 unless you''re the dumbest woman on earth! You must be a fool-that''s right you''re supporting SP so....
Is that what you look like when you pay waaaay too much for clothes?
It is really worth it to look miserable just to wear something expensive?
The clothes they have been wearing do not address the masses of everyday women and they should tone it down a bit, as to some people, it does matter.
The public was not so keen on Nancy Reagan and her wardrobe and held it against her.
This was sloppy record-keeping by the RNC. They were just GAGA over SARAH SARAH SARAH, and didn''t think this would be an issue, so they didn''t even try to hide it.
Are Sarah''s kids even in school? I wonder who does Willow''s nails, and who do you think paid for THAT? Do you think Trig wears make-up too? But more importantly does TODD wear make-up? Does any of this make-up wipe off on the clothes accidentally??
I need to get some more information before I decide who to vote for, *** it.
I%u2019m on Main Street and I%u2019ve yet to see how the $750,000,000,000 bailout is reaching anyone other than the financiers on Wall Street. Here in New Jersey our state government %u201Clost%u201D several billion dollars (yes, there%u2019s that b-word again) on a failed school construction program. There was barely a whimper.
Okay, so the Governor Palin gets her outfits at Neiman Marcus and she has a stylist. She%u2019s a woman and she%u2019s running for VP. We expect her to look better than the average hausfrau. I%u2019ll give her a break on the $100,000+ wardrobe budget, if she%u2019ll just get me a piece of the friggin%u2019 billions that went to the Wall Street barons.
People, learn some math.
It''s better for the economy to pay for what you use instead of expecting that it will be given to you.
Because Sarah Palin has no intention of giving the clothes back! It''s booty she''s expropriating from McCain campaign contributors.
HA HA HA AND WEARS A MOO MOO HA HA HA AND LOVES SP AND TROOPERGATE HA HA HA HA
you need to tell MCFLIP how to pronoune **** ha ha ha ha and what about DUMMY couldn''t pronounce a word today as usual-you''d be the PERFECT person to go on MSNBC to defend the LYING COUPLE. We have two attorneys in the house-and you have THE FLIM FLAM DUO.
Because Sarah Palin has no intention of giving the clothes back! It''s booty she''s expropriating from the McCain campaign contributors.
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Did you read the article or just the title?
Sarah had her head examined and the doctors were surprised to discover THERE WAS NOTHING THERE-A HEARTBEAT AWAY FROM IMPEACHMENT IS WHERE SHE IS. AND MCFLIP HE IS ONE HEARTBEAT AWAY FROM HAVING ANOTHER BOUT WITH CANCER-HE WON''T MAKE IT IN FOUR YEARS-Can you imagine-SP doesn''t even know what the VP''s duties are....that''s some deep shee ite! SHE''S DUMB AND SO ARE YOU. At least Hillary''s suits are fitted-a grizzly bear has to make adjustments to yours
I will contact Michelle and let her know that you''d like to borrow her June Cleaver outfit but you''ll need to have it altered-two TENTS would need to be sewn in on each side for you!
Now I see why you''re complaining about this-you contributed to the failing campaign so you want your money back too
The Republican National Committee%u2019s $150,000 investment in Sarah Palin%u2019s wardrobe has prompted some teeth gnashing among the party%u2019s big donors about its political sensibility and a feisty debate among campaign finance specialists about its legality.
%u201CAs a Republican Eagle and a maxed-out contributor to McCain%u2019s general campaign, I%u2019d like my money back %u2013 he can still have my vote,%u201D complained one irate donor on Tuesday.
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