Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Pelosi spends $2,000,000.00 of taxpayers money on herself.

This is another,in a long list,of Pelosi's abuse of taxpayer money.It also illustrates her entitlement mentality.Although her husband is reportedly worth more than 70 million dollars,she chooses to spend taxpayer money on herself and her sycophant underlings.These morons refuse to understand the citizens outrage at the Dems unbridled spending.They may get a wakeup call during the midterm elections.Although I beleive they'll make every attempt to miscast citizens rage as nothing more than our inability to understand they're brilliance. LOL

Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that it has obtained documents from the Air Force detailing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi�s use of United States Air Force aircraft for Congressional Delegations (CODELs). According to the documents, obtained by Judicial Watch through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), the Speaker�s military travel cost the United States Air Force $2,100,744.59 over a two-year period � $101,429.14 of which was for in-flight expenses, including food and alcohol. The following are highlights from the recent release of about 2,000 documents:

Speaker Pelosi used Air Force aircraft to travel back to her district at an average cost of $28,210.51 per flight. The average cost of an international CODEL is $228,563.33. Of the 103 Pelosi-led congressional delegations (CODEL), 31 trips included members of the House Speaker�s family.
One CODEL traveling from Washington, DC, through Tel Aviv, Israel to Baghdad, Iraq May 15-20, 2008, �to discuss matters of mutual concern with government leaders� included members of Congress and their spouses and cost $17,931 per hour in aircraft alone. Purchases for the CODEL included: Johnny Walker Red scotch, Grey Goose vodka, E&J brandy, Bailey�s Irish Cr�me, Maker�s Mark whiskey, Courvoisier cognac, Bacardi Light rum, Jim Beam whiskey, Beefeater gin, Dewars scotch, Bombay Sapphire gin, Jack Daniels whiskey, Corona beer and several bottles of wine.
According to a �Memo for Record� from a March 29�April 7, 2007, CODEL that involved a stop in Israel, �CODEL could only bring Kosher items into the Hotel. Kosher alcohol for mixing beverages in the Delegation room was purchased on the local economy i.e. Bourbon, Whiskey, Scotch, Vodka, Gin, Triple Sec, Tequila, etc.�
The Department of Defense advanced a CODEL of 56 members of Congress and staff $60,000 to travel to Louisiana and Mississippi July 19-22, 2008, to �view flood relief advances from Hurricane Katrina.� The three-day trip cost the U.S. Air Force $65,505.46, exceeding authorized funding by $5,505.46.
�Speaker Pelosi has a history of wasting taxpayer funds with her boorish demands for military travel. And these documents suggest the Speaker�s congressional delegations are more about partying than anything else,� said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton.

Judicial Watch previously obtained internal DOD email correspondence detailing attempts by DOD staff to accommodate Pelosi�s numerous requests for military escorts and military aircraft as well as the speaker�s last minute cancellations and changes.

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Like it has been said here many times before....."elections have consequences"!!!

The hell of it is Pelosi has more than enough $$$ to afford her own bizjet but she sticks it to us instead.
These folks all need to be tarred and feathered, IMO.

Not in Ca. Most of them think she is doing a great job!



I agree with 340

[bleep] Prozac poppin' alcoholic biotch and her minions.

Anyone else get sick to their stomach whenever she shows her ugly mug on tv? I could hardly stand to watch the SOTU address speech the other night, I actually had to put 1 hand up and block half the tv. You Californian's need to step up and do the right thing and vote this hag out of office.

When you have never had to really work one hour in your life or be concerned about paying bills she feels the government(tax payers) owe her a lavish life style. With a national debt in the Trillions whats a measly two million. If we can spend many hundreds of millions in foreign aid & to the UN to help developing nations, most of which goes to line politicians pockets, why shouldn't she & other liberals get their share. Average working class Americans just don't understand the system. A few million here, a couple of billion there, who really cares as long as the Chinese & Saudi continue to finance the US debt .

If they prosecute, then it's something; if not, then it's one hell of an expense account.

It appears that Mr. Scaife's organization may be taking some of those emails out of context . . .

"Reading through the e-mails provided by Judicial Watch � as opposed to just reading Judicial Watch�s description of them � makes it clear that Pelosi�s family members and congressional colleagues were abiding by this reimbursement rule. Some of the e-mails between DOD and House staffers are devoted to hammering out reimbursement details. It�s also clear that the messages are about the disposition of smaller planes, not the 757-size jet, though Judicial Watch obfuscates that fact. The Web site repeats the rumor about Pelosi "requesting a 42-seat Air Force carrier to ferry the Speaker and her staff back and forth between San Francisco, CA and Washington, DC" and adds that Hastert used a 12-seater, implying that the e-mails catch Pelosi red-handed requesting huge planes for her personal transport. But Judicial Watch�s own chart shows Pelosi using only 12-seater Gulfstream equivalents for her travel to and from San Francisco. And one of the very e-mails the organization quotes specifically discusses the availability of G5s � 12-seaters � for general House use. Others discuss assigning the larger C-40Cs, the military equivalent of a Boeing 737, but again for general House member use, not for Pelosi�s coast-to-coast shuttles.

In fact, the vast majority of the e-mails are not about shuttles to and from Pelosi�s home district at all, but about congressional delegations (CODELs) to other states and countries � trips that are ostensibly for fact-finding purposes, for the most part, and generally take place during congressional recesses. Pelosi�s office oversees transportation for these trips for all members of the House, not just for the speaker herself. For instance, the quote: "This is not good news, and we will have some very disappointed folks, as well as a very upset Speaker," which Judicial Watch highlights, refers to the DOD�s difficulties finding appropriate planes for every House delegation over the 2007 Fourth of July recess. Pelosi did not head any of the delegations that were seeking aircraft at that time. Judicial Watch has pulled out quotes that make these e-mails sound like unusual or even outrageous requests by the speaker. In fact, they show staffers juggling limited military resources for all House members, not Pelosi asking for special treatment.

For further discussion of the discrepancy between Judicial Watch�s implications and the actual documents the group provides, see this March 11 report from ABC News. The ABC reporters also compared air travel requests by Pelosi with those of Hastert and found that "Pelosi made the equivalent of 20 round-trips between Washington (Andrews Air Force Base) and San Francisco. That�s an average of less than one round-trip per month. In contrast, former Speaker Hastert traveled home to his Illinois district virtually every weekend and, his former aides tell ABC News, he would almost always travel on military aircraft."

Speaker oversees all congressional flights

It appears at least arguable that the Speaker herself isn't to blame, per se, but rather the institution of Congress that is willing to swill away our tax dollars on high end booze and boondoggles. But then we all knew that already . . . . didn't we.

What do you expect for a Queen? They're 'above' us mere peons..

Having been involved with aviation consulting for so many years, I can tell you that the $28K number is VERY low, and would barely cover the fuel costs for her trip. The $17K/hr is much more in line with the aircraft involved, and would be reflective of numbers I've heard in the past, which is that each of her trips cost the taxpayer $68K, just to go to her home in CA.
Jim

Methinks these "leaders" of ours need to read up on the French Revolution...

Since when do they serve drinks on military planes?
I saw "Band of Brothers" twice... didn't see any Courvoisier on those planes.
Doc

,...and then farted on Rob P.

Good news November is coming.

The expense for the planes is a bit excessive. However, if one had to endure a long flight looking at Pelosi one would welcome all of the alcohol.
Just think what the booze bill would be if Hil-da-beast had been on the plane too!

Whether ANY of these trips are justified or not, the costs are completely out of line. What ever happened to them going on a commercial airline, accomodations at a Days Inn or the equivalent, and a $75 per day per diem limit? No wonder we are in such gross debt!

I don't blame Pelosi for doing what the job allows her to do. I blame the people of California for letting her continue to do it. No wonder that state is such a sesspool. Californians have got to be some of the worst people in this country. The majority have the same mentality as Pelosi, and the ones who don't, don't have the will or ability to stand up against them.

It is very important to her to go home to california most weekends and sleep in her bed.. so she expects the government to pay for that as she is so important. All she is .......drumroll please.. Is darn right ugly and mean spirited.

Ohhhhh, Kodiakisland... that'll bring down Barkoff's wrath



The lefties will never notice. Still too busy being pissd about Palin's new dress.