*snort* Newt Gingrich owes $400K to Moby Dick Airlines!!!

[madinmaryland]

A private chartered airline.

:rofl:

[tishaLA]

1. oh Ahab!

[HipChick]

2. Based in Alaska...same Airlines..interesting connection

Palin's political action committee, SarahPAC, paid $6,999 to a business called "Republican Presidential Travel" that is based out of a Washington, D.C. post office box, according to a report filed with the Federal Election Commission on Thursday.

There's not much info out there online about Republican Presidential Travel, but one record showed it was an alternative business name for Moby Dick Airways, a private jet company used frequently by Newt Gingrich.

Moby Dick's Roy Oakley told TPM that his former business partner Doug Garrett, the former owner of Moby Dick Airways, operates Republican Presidential Travel. Garrett told TPM that Republican Presidential Travel is headquartered in Alaska and under an agreement with the new owner of Moby Dick Airways only does charters in Alaska. He referred questions specifically about the services his company provided to Palin to SarahPAC.

Palin's PAC paid another $27,850.00 to the Florida-based Air Partner Private Jets for an air charter in April, according to the FEC report..

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/07/sarah-palins-pac-pays-7k-for-republican-presidential-travel.php

[Booster]

3. Well, us taxpayers need to pick up that little tab. (do I really need

to insert the sarcasm thingy?)

[SoCalDem]

4. Maybe he can pay for it with some of the Tiffany baubles

:rofl:

[Mz Pip]

5. Where the f*ck did he go?

You can book passage on ride into space for that.

Now there's an idea! "To the moon, Newt!"

[madinmaryland]

6. Heh! With his comedic genius, we need him here on DU!!

[Canuckistanian]

7. Well, slap my ass and call me Ishmael

He did not feel the wind, or smell the salt air. He only stood, staring at the horizon, with the marks of some inner crucifixion and woe deep in his face.

Then all of his staff quit.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

8. Sarah Palin thinks Moby Dick is a venereal disease.