{"id":489170,"date":"2010-03-30T07:39:46","date_gmt":"2010-03-30T11:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thehollywoodliberal.com\/2010\/03\/30\/rnc-spent-194625-at-sex-themed-nightclub-voyeur-west-hollywood\/"},"modified":"2010-03-30T07:39:46","modified_gmt":"2010-03-30T11:39:46","slug":"rnc-spent-1946-25-at-sex-themed-nightclub-voyeur-west-hollywood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/489170","title":{"rendered":"RNC spent $1946.25 at sex-themed nightclub Voyeur West Hollywood."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2010\/03\/29\/rnc-voyeur\/\" >RNC spent $1946.25 at sex-themed nightclub Voyeur West Hollywood. \t\t<\/a><br \/>Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele evidently does not share the right&#8217;s disdain for Hollywood, a commitment to conservative spending practices, or discomfort with sexuality outside of traditional marriage. The Daily Caller reports that &#8220;FEC filings suggest Steele travels in style\u201d: Once on the ground, FEC filings suggest, Steele travels in style. A February RNC trip [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/michael_steele_s.png\" alt=\"Michael Steele\" title=\"Michael Steele\" width=\"204\" height=\"263\" class=\"imgright\" \/>Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele evidently does not share the <a  rel=\"nofollow\" href='http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/research\/200605110002'>right&#8217;s disdain for Hollywood<\/a>, a commitment to conservative spending practices, or discomfort with sexuality outside of traditional marriage. The Daily Caller reports that &#8220;FEC filings suggest <a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2010\/03\/29\/high-flyer-rnc-chairman-steele-suggested-buying-private-jet-with-gop-funds\/\">Steele travels in style<\/a>\u201d:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Once on the ground, FEC filings suggest, Steele travels in style. A February RNC trip to California, for example, included a $9,099 stop at the Beverly Hills Hotel, $6,596 dropped at the nearby Four Seasons, and <strong>$1,620.71 spent [update: the amount is actually $1,946.25] at Voyeur West Hollywood, a bondage-themed nightclub featuring topless women dancers imitating lesbian sex<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;<a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.yelp.com\/biz\/voyeur-los-angeles#hrid:uZ--mBaJxhs9kbiE4L8KMw\">There are topless &#8216;dancers&#8217;<\/a> acting out S&#038;M scenes throughout the night on one of the side stages,&#8221; a rave review of Voyeur on Yelp.com describes. &#8220;There&#8217;s a half-naked girl hanging from a net across the ceiling and at one point I walked to the bathroom and pretty much just stopped dead in my tracks to watch two girls simulating oral sex in a glass case.&#8221; Although Steele&#8217;s <a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0210\/33324.html\">high-flying ways<\/a> have angered GOP donors, RNC communications director Doug Heye explains, &#8220;<a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com\/2010\/02\/23\/rnc-defends-spending-habits-under-steele\/\">It takes money<\/a> to make money.&#8221; (HT <a  rel=\"nofollow\" href='http:\/\/www.oliverwillis.com\/2010\/03\/29\/under-steele-rnc-considered-buying-private-jet-spent-money-at-bondage-themed-club\/'>Oliver Willis<\/a>)<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RNC spent $1946.25 at sex-themed nightclub Voyeur West Hollywood. Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele evidently does not share the right&#8217;s disdain for Hollywood, a commitment to conservative spending practices, or discomfort with sexuality outside of traditional marriage. The Daily Caller reports that &#8220;FEC filings suggest Steele travels in style\u201d: Once on the ground, FEC [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":807,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-489170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489170","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\/807"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}