{"id":485959,"date":"2010-03-29T18:19:01","date_gmt":"2010-03-29T22:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=80834"},"modified":"2010-03-29T18:19:01","modified_gmt":"2010-03-29T22:19:01","slug":"report-rnc%e2%80%99s-voyeur-reimbursement-was-for-a-young-donor%e2%80%99s-afterparty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/485959","title":{"rendered":"Report: RNC\u2019s Voyeur Reimbursement Was for a Young Donor\u2019s Afterparty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The indispensable Red County blog <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redcounty.com\/michael-steeles-bondage-party-has-oc-connection\/38222\">digs in<\/a> on the story with some intel about how, exactly, Erik Brown came to bill the RNC nearly $2,000 for a night at Hollywood&#8217;s Voyeur nightclub:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>According to sources who were in attendance that night, the &#8220;official&#8221; part of the evening started with 50+ person dinner at the Beverly Hills Hotel, then\u00a0carried\u00a0on\u00a0throughout the evening, eventually ending up at Voyeur. While RNC\u00a0employees,\u00a0who were in town to recruit members to\u00a0its\u00a0&#8221;<a href=\"http:\/\/our.gop.com\/finance_groups\/Young_Eagles\" >RNC\u00a0Young Eagles<\/a>&#8220;\u00a0program, did participate throughout the entire evening and did find their way to the bondage-themed club, Michael\u00a0Steele himself was &#8220;not in attendance&#8221; for any portion of the evening. Brown, by the way, is reportedly a &#8220;Young Eagle&#8221;\u00a0himself, a fundraising\u00a0sub-group of the RNC\u00a0which targets larger donors based on age group.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span id=\"more-80834\"><\/span>Obviously there&#8217;s nothing wrong with young RNC donors patronizing a bondage-themed night club, but it&#8217;s not the kind of thing that gets broadcast at this level &#8212; much less the kind of thing a party reimburses. It&#8217;s the kind of thing that allows Democrats to ask whether the RNC is holding fundraisers at strip clubs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The indispensable Red County blog digs in on the story with some intel about how, exactly, Erik Brown came to bill the RNC nearly $2,000 for a night at Hollywood&#8217;s Voyeur nightclub: According to sources who were in attendance that night, the &#8220;official&#8221; part of the evening started with 50+ person dinner at the Beverly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4313,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-485959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4313"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}