Jophiel wrote:
gbaji wrote:
Ah... So if she leaves the kids at home, she's a bad mother and shouldn't be in politics, but if she brings them along, it's "corruption"?
Erm... no. If she charges the state for bringing them along when they're not part of the official business, it's corruption.
Except that the article only says that "some" didn't specifically invite them, and in many cases she asked if she could bring them (and it was presumably oked). Are you suggesting that when Obama shows up at an event with his children, he's not allowed to expense their costs? Should we be looking into campaign funding violations for this? Where does the madness end!???
If you can find me an example where she sent the kids off on a trip on their own where she wasn't there and no official business was conducted of any kind and charged it to the state, then you might have a point. Maybe she expensed a camping trip, or a school field trip or something. Have fun looking...
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Let's deduct the 21k she's charged in 2 years for commercial trips from the amount it would have cost to maintain and use said jet and see if we come out ahead...
I don't understand this. Are you seriously saying that if someone saves the state X dollars, it's okay to cheat them for Y dollars so long as X > Y?
No duncehead... ;)
I'm suggesting that it's unfair to compare the charges by Palin for commercial flights for her kids to previous administrations when the previous administrations presumably just piled them into the state funded private jet.
Part of that savings was realizing that it would be cheaper to fly her (and her family) on commercial airlines than having their own jet on call.
What's next Joph? A politician gives up the motorcade and rides a public bus and you want to charge them with corruption for expensing bus tickets for their kids?
Wow. You guys really are digging for this one, aren't you?
Is there an echo in here? :)