Missing GOP Money– Is Anyone Really Surprised?
Exile has been reporting on hundreds of thousands of dollars missing from NRCC coffers during Reynolds term as NRCC head. It’s definitely a big story, but I have to say, come on, now. I, like 80’s mohawked icon Mr. T, “pity the fool” who is surprised by all this.
After all, this is the same GOP leadership that magically “lost” literally millions of incriminating Whitehouse e-mails, and allowed $9 Billion (with a B) to go missing in Iraq. (And that was between 2003-05. Who knows how much more since then.) Whoops! Whatever happened to all that money? Huh! Anyway, nothing to see here, move along. Why look, is that a terrorist over there?
Now we see it on a local level, with $15 million spent for RenSquare, except, oh, the documents proving that the money was spent well are “not necessarily open for public inspection“. Would that reluctance to show the documents have anything to do with this uncomfortable fact?
Since 1999, the ten major [RenSquare] contractors donated more than $400,000 to Brooks and the Monroe County Republican Party, four times as much as they gave to Mayor Robert Duffy and the local Democratic Party.
Wow, a $400,000 investment that returns $15M in less than 10 years! Where do I sign up? Why hasn’t my financial advisor let me in on that hot tip? That’s it, he’s totally off my Christmas card list!
Combine all this with Maggie Brooks’ continued shell game with the county finances (also called “Hmmm. Who can we pass the blame to next? We’ve got all this PR money in the kitty…”)Â Suddenly the GOP’s claim to being better financial stewards rings a little hollow.
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sheesh. $400k -> $15M. cool. Sure hope someone makes a campaign issue out of this. Shouldn’t be that hard.
I would like to see more images of MR. T on the blog. Would RT consider adding a regular “I pity the fool” feature? Maybe with a polling section in which readers could vote for the local fool they pity the most? I bet we could even get MR.T himself here at an annual banquet (a pity party, if you will) to personally present the Rochester Turning Pity Award to the biggest fool in town.