Reply #47: RNC Response:

[jenmito]

"This was a reimbursement made to a non-committee staffer. The chairman was never at the location in question, he had no knowledge of the expenditure, nor does he find the use of committe funds at such a location at all acceptable."-Doug Heye, RNC Communications Director


I was looking on the web for a link to back this up, and found an article from Feb. February 23, 2010:

RNC defends spending habits under Steele
Posted: February 23rd, 2010 06:01 PM ET

From CNN Political Producer Peter Hamby

GOP donors have been privately critical of RNC chairman Michael Steele.


Washington (CNN) – Michael Steele's handling of Republican National Committee's bank account is under fire once again, thanks to a Politico story out Tuesday detailing some of the committee's expensive habits during Steele's tenure.

The story compared last year's RNC's financial disclosures with committee paperwork from 2005, the last comparable year before a midterm election, and concluded that Steele not only took in less money than his predecessors, but also spent nearly twice as much on items like car services, charter flights and fancy meals.

"Michael Steele is an imperial chairman," grumbled one GOP fundraiser to Politico.

But Steele adviser Doug Heye is defending the party's money management under Steele, a record that has irked a number of top Republican donors who have sought out other party committees when cutting checks ahead of the midterms.

"We are focused on two things, raising money and winning elections," Heye, the RNC's communications director, told CNN. "In the past year we have raised over $90 million, we have sent money directly to state parties and have won three statewide elections," he said, referencing gubernatorial wins in Virginia and New Jersey along with Scott Brown's victory in the Massachusetts Senate special election.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/02/23/rnc-defends-spending-habits-under-steele/?fbid=VXmlsvCf70v :rofl: