Palin and her Stylist
The Obama-Biden transition team says President-elect Barack Obama and Vice President-elect Joe Biden have nothing on their "public" schedules today. But there is news to pass along:
• Politico -- Additional $30K was spent on Palin at many familiar stores: The Republican National Committee now reports it spent about $180,000 on clothes and accessories for vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin and her family. The stores detailed in the RNC's new report about $30,000 of that total "read like a suburban shopping directory. Dick's Sporting Goods, The Limited, Foot Locker, Wal-Mart, Toys R Us and Victoria's Secret are all listed in between the expected payments for media buys, direct mail and polling. Major payments to big department stores and boutique clothing outlets also continued. Thousands of dollars in payments to Macy’s, Nieman Marcus and Saks Fifth Avenue -- all major recipients of RNC cash in early September as Palin upgraded her wardrobe for the campaign -- were made in October, too. In addition, hundreds of dollars were also spent at Brooks Brothers, the Gap, Express and J.C. Penney on clothes and accessories, apparently for other members of the vice presidential nominee’s family."
A related story by The Caucus blog at nytimes.com -- Palin's sylists were paid $110,000: "Gov. Sarah Palin’s traveling makeup artist was paid $68,400 and her hair stylist received more than $42,000 for roughly two months of work, according to a new campaign finance report filed with the Federal Election Commission."
(Photo of Palin, far right, her family and Republican presidential nominee John McCain taken Sept. 3 at the GOP convention by H. Darr Beiser of USA TODAY.)
• Politico -- Rangel's son paid nearly $80K for Web work: "Between 2004 and 2007, Rep. Charles Rangel steered nearly $80,000 in campaign cash to an Internet company run by his son –- paying lavishly for a pair of political websites so poorly designed an expert estimated one should have cost no more than $100 to create. The payments are apparently legal under federal law, but their disclosure raises new questions about the Ways and Means chairman as he faces House ethics committee probes into his failure to pay taxes on rental income and his alleged use of House stationery to solicit contributions for a public policy center that bears his name. ... Rangel spokesman Emile Milne said (the New York Democrat's) son was a valuable member of the congressman's re-election team and was paid a modest monthly retainer to build, maintain, update and publicize the site."
• Chicago Tribune -- Investigators have recorded Ill. governor: "Federal investigators recently made covert tape recordings of (Democratic) Gov. Rod Blagojevich in the most dramatic step yet in their corruption investigation of him and his administration, the Tribune has learned."
• The Associated Press -- Obama collected $104 million in last weeks of campaign: "Barack Obama's presidential campaign reports raising $104 million in October and November. ... Overall, Obama raised nearly $750 million during his odyssey to the presidency. Campaign finance reports covering the period from Oct. 15 to Nov. 24 were due to the Federal Election Commission on Thursday."
• The Washington Post's In the Loop column -- Next week Obama will focus on "Mother Nature:" "The Obama transition team, moving along smartly to fill Cabinet posts, is planning to trot out nominees as early as next week for three jobs much watched by enviros: the secretaries of energy and the interior and the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency."
• The Wall Street Journal -- Daschle already pushing for health care plan: "Former senator Tom Daschle, who is slated to oversee health-care policy in the Obama administration, is kicking off the effort to pass a comprehensive health-care plan. In a speech to be delivered Friday in Denver, Mr. Daschle will say, 'The president-elect made health-care reform one of his top priorities of his campaign, and I am here to tell you that his commitment to changing the health-care system remains strong and focused.' "
• Star Tribune -- Minnesota recount nears its end; but outcome is still far off: "The U.S. Senate recount neared its final hours Thursday, buffeted by the kinds of disputes over missing ballots and challenged ballots that have become familiar in the month since the post-election drama began. Yet at day's end, with 99% of the ballots counted, the gap separating Republican Sen. Norm Coleman and Democrat Al Franken was only 36 votes larger than it had been at the start. Coleman now leads by 251, according to Star Tribune tabulations. ... The state Canvassing Board is to meet on Dec. 16 to begin reviewing the thousands of remaining ballot challenges from the two campaigns." One major issue: 133 missing ballots from a Minneapolis precinct.
• Los Angeles Times -- Obama team to consider how to deploy its online army: "With 13 million e-mail addresses, hundreds of trained field organizers and tens of thousands of neighborhood coordinators and phone bank volunteers, the (Barack Obama online) network has become one of the most valuable assets in politics, and Obama's team may choose to deploy it to elect other Democratic officials, or to lobby Congress for his toughest legislative goals, or even to apply pressure on local and state policymakers across the country. This weekend, hundreds of field staffers and some key volunteers are planning a marathon closed-door summit at a Chicago hotel to begin negotiating details of what the network might look like when Obama takes office in January. A group of field organizers from battleground states has been enlisted to draw up a plan."
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• Politico -- Additional $30K was spent on Palin at many familiar stores: The Republican National Committee now reports it spent about $180,000 on clothes and accessories for vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin and her family. The stores detailed in the RNC's new report about $30,000 of that total "read like a suburban shopping directory. Dick's Sporting Goods, The Limited, Foot Locker, Wal-Mart, Toys R Us and Victoria's Secret are all listed in between the expected payments for media buys, direct mail and polling. Major payments to big department stores and boutique clothing outlets also continued. Thousands of dollars in payments to Macy’s, Nieman Marcus and Saks Fifth Avenue -- all major recipients of RNC cash in early September as Palin upgraded her wardrobe for the campaign -- were made in October, too. In addition, hundreds of dollars were also spent at Brooks Brothers, the Gap, Express and J.C. Penney on clothes and accessories, apparently for other members of the vice presidential nominee’s family."
A related story by The Caucus blog at nytimes.com -- Palin's sylists were paid $110,000: "Gov. Sarah Palin’s traveling makeup artist was paid $68,400 and her hair stylist received more than $42,000 for roughly two months of work, according to a new campaign finance report filed with the Federal Election Commission."
(Photo of Palin, far right, her family and Republican presidential nominee John McCain taken Sept. 3 at the GOP convention by H. Darr Beiser of USA TODAY.)
• Politico -- Rangel's son paid nearly $80K for Web work: "Between 2004 and 2007, Rep. Charles Rangel steered nearly $80,000 in campaign cash to an Internet company run by his son –- paying lavishly for a pair of political websites so poorly designed an expert estimated one should have cost no more than $100 to create. The payments are apparently legal under federal law, but their disclosure raises new questions about the Ways and Means chairman as he faces House ethics committee probes into his failure to pay taxes on rental income and his alleged use of House stationery to solicit contributions for a public policy center that bears his name. ... Rangel spokesman Emile Milne said (the New York Democrat's) son was a valuable member of the congressman's re-election team and was paid a modest monthly retainer to build, maintain, update and publicize the site."
• Chicago Tribune -- Investigators have recorded Ill. governor: "Federal investigators recently made covert tape recordings of (Democratic) Gov. Rod Blagojevich in the most dramatic step yet in their corruption investigation of him and his administration, the Tribune has learned."
• The Associated Press -- Obama collected $104 million in last weeks of campaign: "Barack Obama's presidential campaign reports raising $104 million in October and November. ... Overall, Obama raised nearly $750 million during his odyssey to the presidency. Campaign finance reports covering the period from Oct. 15 to Nov. 24 were due to the Federal Election Commission on Thursday."
• The Washington Post's In the Loop column -- Next week Obama will focus on "Mother Nature:" "The Obama transition team, moving along smartly to fill Cabinet posts, is planning to trot out nominees as early as next week for three jobs much watched by enviros: the secretaries of energy and the interior and the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency."
• The Wall Street Journal -- Daschle already pushing for health care plan: "Former senator Tom Daschle, who is slated to oversee health-care policy in the Obama administration, is kicking off the effort to pass a comprehensive health-care plan. In a speech to be delivered Friday in Denver, Mr. Daschle will say, 'The president-elect made health-care reform one of his top priorities of his campaign, and I am here to tell you that his commitment to changing the health-care system remains strong and focused.' "
• Star Tribune -- Minnesota recount nears its end; but outcome is still far off: "The U.S. Senate recount neared its final hours Thursday, buffeted by the kinds of disputes over missing ballots and challenged ballots that have become familiar in the month since the post-election drama began. Yet at day's end, with 99% of the ballots counted, the gap separating Republican Sen. Norm Coleman and Democrat Al Franken was only 36 votes larger than it had been at the start. Coleman now leads by 251, according to Star Tribune tabulations. ... The state Canvassing Board is to meet on Dec. 16 to begin reviewing the thousands of remaining ballot challenges from the two campaigns." One major issue: 133 missing ballots from a Minneapolis precinct.
• Los Angeles Times -- Obama team to consider how to deploy its online army: "With 13 million e-mail addresses, hundreds of trained field organizers and tens of thousands of neighborhood coordinators and phone bank volunteers, the (Barack Obama online) network has become one of the most valuable assets in politics, and Obama's team may choose to deploy it to elect other Democratic officials, or to lobby Congress for his toughest legislative goals, or even to apply pressure on local and state policymakers across the country. This weekend, hundreds of field staffers and some key volunteers are planning a marathon closed-door summit at a Chicago hotel to begin negotiating details of what the network might look like when Obama takes office in January. A group of field organizers from battleground states has been enlisted to draw up a plan."
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