Republicans and donors to party at casino
Senate Republicans will raise campaign funds tonight at what they’re billing as “a tropical cocktail hour underneath the cabanas on the pool deck of Ameristar Casino” in St. Charles.
The description comes from an invitation signed by Senate Majority Leader Charlies Shields, R-St. Joseph, and Sen. Scott Rupp, R-Wentzville.
The event, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., will raise money for the Majority Fund Inc., the committee that works to keep the Senate in Republican hands.
Contribution limits don’t apply since the money goes to a continuing committee instead of a candidate committee. Sponsors are urged to donate $2,500; hosts, $1,000; and guests, $500.
The letter goes on to invite donors to stay the night at Ameristar Hotel and Spa, where a block of rooms is reserved just for them. Then the next day, they can participate in Rupp’s golf tournament at Bear Creek Golf Club in Wentzville.
It all adds up to “36 hours of fun in the sun,” Shields and Rupp say in the letter.
A separate invitiation from Rupp to the golf tournament kindly points out that donation limits don’t apply to that event because the money will go to “Show-Me Leadership Fund.”
Will Jeff Smith be there?
So much for the family values party. Going to a gambling den and a white golf club. Do you bull-slingers know how much it costs in social services to keep your gambligndens open? No wonder you can’t get the economy right, you still think house odds favor the gambler instead of the house.
Well, if the levees out there have to break, that would be a good time for them to do so! White bread clueless selfish repubs floating amongst the gambling chips. I’d almost pay to see that!
Yup,
Many in the Grand Old Party (GOP) are making me like it less every day.
Casino money has a lot of allure at the Capitol, but thankfully, there are still a few good men and women who have not sold out.
If any of the senators or folks from the Majority Fund had lived through having a family member with a severe gambling addiction, they would take it no less lightly then drugs. There are so many broken families and miserable people who started out as really nice, productive members of society and didn’t know where to stop once they started going to the casinos.
For Republicans to host an event at a casino (a fundraiser at that!) is a total slap in the face to those who think they are at the Capitol, working to make things better for families.
Makes sense, they’re gambling with our lives daily by wasting lives and treasure in Iraq, where no one attacked us on 9/11.
Taliban and al Qaeda have re-taken 10% of Afghanistan and are flooding the country with white heroin, while the GOP fiddles in Iraq.
http://dangerousintersection.org/2006/08/13/afghanistan-democracy-is-drowning-in-illegal-drugs/
Can you get any further from the topic Tim? The topic is Republicans at the Casinos and at the lilly white Bear Creek Golf Club.
Will there be photos?
Shecky - Darn it, you stole my line!
Tim - You’re an idiot.
Don’t forget about Hubbard. I’m sure Jeff will invite him though.
Looks like Nicki Kasoff still needs a hug! Here boy, let me scratch your pale, hairy back until your legs twitch!