Matt Collins
02-23-2010, 10:57 PM
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0210/33324.html
Republican National Chairman Michael Steele (http://topics.politico.com/index.cfm/topic/MichaelSteele) is spending twice as much as his recent predecessors on private planes and paying more for limousines, catering and flowers – expenses that are infuriating the party's major donors who say Republicans need every penny (http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0110/31269.html) they can get for the fight to win back Congress.
Most recently, donors grumbled when Steele hired renowned chef Wolfgang Puck's local crew to cater the RNC (http://topics.politico.com/index.cfm/topic/RepublicanNationalCommittee)'s Christmas party inside the trendy Newseum on Pennsylvania Avenue, and then moved its annual winter meeting (http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0110/31834.html) from Washington to Hawaii (http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0110/32144.html).
Republican National Chairman Michael Steele (http://topics.politico.com/index.cfm/topic/MichaelSteele) is spending twice as much as his recent predecessors on private planes and paying more for limousines, catering and flowers – expenses that are infuriating the party's major donors who say Republicans need every penny (http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0110/31269.html) they can get for the fight to win back Congress.
Most recently, donors grumbled when Steele hired renowned chef Wolfgang Puck's local crew to cater the RNC (http://topics.politico.com/index.cfm/topic/RepublicanNationalCommittee)'s Christmas party inside the trendy Newseum on Pennsylvania Avenue, and then moved its annual winter meeting (http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0110/31834.html) from Washington to Hawaii (http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0110/32144.html).