{"id":488874,"date":"2010-03-30T09:29:29","date_gmt":"2010-03-30T13:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=80860"},"modified":"2010-03-30T09:29:29","modified_gmt":"2010-03-30T13:29:29","slug":"rnc-fires-staffer-moves-on-from-voyeur-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/488874","title":{"rendered":"RNC Fires Staffer, Moves on From Voyeur Scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Politico has the email<\/a> circulated inside the RNC announcing — but not naming — the departure of the staffer who let a $1900 expense for a night club party<\/a> slip through the cracks. And below the jump is the email sent to the media last night by RNC spokesman Doug Heye:<\/span><\/p>\n

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At the outset, Chairman [Michael] Steele was not at Voyeur West Hollywood. He had no knowledge of the expenditure, nor does he find the use of committee funds at such a location acceptable. While some in the press have suggested Chairman Steele was at the venue, he was not and no proof has been offered that he was. When the expense was incurred, Chairman Steele was on United flight # 0084, returning from the RNC Winter Meeting.<\/p>\n

Upon finding out of the expenditure this morning, Chairman Steele demanded the committee get to the bottom of this matter immediately.<\/p>\n

The committee has taken appropriate steps to address the issues relating to the reimbursement of certain expenses.\u00a0 First, as reported, the expenditure in question will be recouped by the RNC. Second, appropriate personnel actions have been taken and accounting and reimbursement processes are being revised to ensure that such an action cannot reoccur.\u00a0 We recognize the difficulty this incident has caused and assure our members and supporters that any necessary and proper remediation is being implemented immediately.<\/p>\n

It is unfortunate that a loyal GOP donor who has recruited other donors became involved in this incident while merely trying to help what turned out to be the improper request of a staffer who is no longer with the committee.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Politico has the email circulated inside the RNC announcing — but not naming — the departure of the staffer who let a $1900 expense for a night club party slip through the cracks. And below the jump is the email sent to the media last night by RNC spokesman Doug Heye: At the outset, Chairman […]<\/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-488874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488874","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=488874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}