Episode 2379: The Base Deserves More Than What The RNC Is Offering
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Summary
John Rich is a songwriter, singer, and donor to the Republican National Committee (RNC) and a long time supporter of Donald Trump. In this episode, he shares his thoughts on the scandal involving the RNC, and what it means for the future of the Republican Party.
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this is the primal scream of a dying regime pray for our enemies because we're going to
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medieval on these people you're just not going to free shot all these networks lying about the
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people the people have had a belly full of it i know you don't like hearing that i know you've
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tried to do everything in the world to stop that but you're not going to stop it it's going to
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happen and where do people like that go to share the big line mega media i wish in my soul i wish
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that any of these people had a conscience ask yourself what is my task and what is my purpose
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if that answer is to save my country this country will be saved warren here's your host stephen k
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back ronna romney mcdaniel has run the rnc rnc rather the republican national committee in
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washington the republican party in washington for nearly six years and she's raised a lot of money
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she's good at that but the party has been losing a lot of elections so red state online the news site
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decided to look into this where's all the money going and red state found that under ronna romney
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mcdaniel the rnc has spent more than sixty thousand dollars at clothing retailers more
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than 300 grand on floral arrangements quite a few expenditures were effectively hidden because
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they were put in the wrong categories according to red state quote nearly five thousand spent in
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2022 at lululemon a luxury athletic brand was classified as an office expense tens of thousands
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went to broadway shows and nfl tickets in a statement the rnc said red state had published a
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blatantly false piece because all the spending amounts to around one percent of the money
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ronna mcdaniel raised but the most fascinating part of the piece was how much was spent on private
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planes a remarkable amount and then red state you should take a look at this compared spending at
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the rnc to spending at the dnc which did pretty well in the last election and found they weren't
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spending a lot of money on stuff like that like private planes and lululemon they were spending money
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on winning elections which is why they did so our friend john rich is a songwriter obviously a singer
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a famous performer and also an rnc donor he saw this and we were interested in his reaction john
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thanks so much for coming on so i think like a lot of our viewers like a lot of people in america you
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you know you sent money to the party you vote for and you thought it was going to the right places what
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was your response to this story well it's bad enough how they spent the money as you're outlining but
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here's where i really really got upset tucker and that's when i realized that the rnc right after
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this election when when trump lost the election they were running commercials on tv that said
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we're fighting for trump so donate to the rnc because we're fighting for trump and they knew that
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that all the conservative base out there was fired up and would send in a lot of money matter of fact
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they sent in close to 200 million dollars to the rnc meanwhile i find out that in the back rooms where
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nobody's allowed to go that the attorneys for the rnc decide that they're going to hit the attorneys for
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trump and say cease and desist sit down and shut up you're running the future of the republican party
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while they're simultaneously running ads saying fighting for trump so when i saw that go down i said
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these people are scoundrels they're liars this is a bait and switch they are abusing their position
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with the conservatives around this country and i don't think we should call them rhinos anymore after
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what i've seen them do there because that's honestly that's defamatory to the noble rhinoceros that's quite
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an animal i wouldn't call them that anymore i would call them i would call them judas republicans
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because they betrayed the trust of the people they took their money and they never intended on using that
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money for what they said they were going to use it for i'd like to see hashtag judas republicans
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trending from this point forward we cannot trust what they're doing and until they have new leadership
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that we can trust that speaks like us and talks like us and supports what we support don't send them
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another red cent i know i won't and i hope nobody else does either wow that's quite an indictment i mean
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of course you need two parties you need two party leaderships you need to have a functioning party
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right are you convinced that if you had better leadership it would get better
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you know i think if it's handled yeah in the right way if you're not lying to people i mean tucker
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you take 200 million dollars out of the pockets of hard-working americans during a pandemic and say
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we're fighting for trump it was a lie the entire time and the attorney that was sending those
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letters back to the trump campaign still works there by the way they said he was fired he wasn't fired
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he still works there and you can't trust these people listen i'm a regular guy i have a pretty
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incredible life but i'm a regular guy as you well know i don't like being lied to and i think i think
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we should uh hold them to account no more money till they start telling the truth
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kurt schlichter is senior columnist at town hall he's also a novelist writes a lot of books he's a
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retired army infantry colonel and a lawyer but not a jag kurt your assessment right there of tucker
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and uh and john rich sir well first of all uh all props out to jennifer van laar of my sister site
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red state uh and a personal friend who did a great job in exposing the financial shenanigans at the rnc
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and john rich uh you know he's a big star but he's also uh represents the base in that the base is
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outraged that the money that was promised to go to win conservative fights has gone to other things
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okay this is unacceptable meaning we can't accept it meaning we have to take firm action and that
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means new leadership i don't understand the argument for continuing with rona mcdaniel
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she has an unbroken track record of failure through five elections i'm not a football guy but if you lose
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five games in a row didn't your naval academy just uh have to fire a guy for not cutting it against
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the mighty army uh uh warriors yeah yeah it's called accountability and steve the problem in america
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right now is a lack of accountability for our ruling class our elites they fail they screw up they're greedy
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and corrupt and then they're caught and they kind of shrug and say oh well let's just keep going this
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way you know if she was doing a great job i wouldn't have a big problem with her taking a
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little cream off the top and getting her lulu lemons and her begonias that would be fine okay you know
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earn your earn your vigorous but uh she hasn't she has failed it's unequivocal there is no case for
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she needs to go the base demands it i ran an unscientific poll on my twitter account at kurt slater
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don't follow me um i'm not throttled anymore i don't think um and uh 50 uh 5992 hardcore
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conservatives voted and i said do you want ronna mcdaniel or someone else 0.6 percent wanted ronna
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0.6 steven 99.4 percent of americans don't agree on anything else you can't find 99.4 percent of
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americans to agree that rage against the machine is a terrible band but they all agree that ronna
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needs to go away she may be a nice person in the words of tommy lee jones i don't care i don't care
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about her feelings i'm unsentimental about politicians and politician adjuncts like ronna mcdaniel she
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doesn't cut it she's not good enough she needs to leave kurt real quickly given your experience
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in nevada showing up on a state that trump won and and if we'd had the resources and the assets
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you know even given the the assembly we could have put up a a bigger and longer fight you guys did as
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good a job as you possibly could coming in after the fact what would be your one or two things
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regardless of who wins this that kurt you recommend has to be done immediately at the rnc to start to
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rejuvenate this and get us back on a winning track well look there there are a lot of things
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and uh uh you know battle leadership is about synchronizing your assets synchronizing your
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forces uh let me go down the legal side we need a uh beefed up legal team uh that you know consists
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of actual law firm not a bunch of lawyers called together because at the same time you're trying to
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conduct operations you're also trying to build the logistical base that allows you to conduct the
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operations you can't do two things at once you need a law firm that already exists and the republican
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party should build one it should build a law firm of crack litigators who during election season are
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election lawyers and not and when election season's not going steven they should be real lawyers normal
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lawyers with clients and you you have the republicans go and say you don't need to throw us money
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throw some business to our kept uh captive law firm let me train up my guys doing your contract cases
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your tort cases whatever and when it comes time to election law we'll turn our specialty there remember
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as a litigator you can do anything if somebody comes to me and says kurt i i need you to go try a case
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i don't really care if it's medical malpractice or uh real estate or an employment case or whatever
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my my skill set is learning the specific area of law and then presenting the case so i say build
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ourselves a legal framework with a captive law firm of crack litigators who have some uh election law
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specialties and that way you can prepare the battlefield you be there well beforehand to file
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the lawsuits there are two kinds of lawsuits you always lose you always lose the defense of the workers
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comp case you always lose an election challenge that's just how the law is set up understand that
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kurt what are your coordinates how do people get to you your writings uh podcast all of it uh your
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novels the other books uh and social media how do people get to you well you should follow me on
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twitter at kurt schlichter i have the schlichter arena on locals and you can go there and i put up all
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my columns my columns are every monday wednesday and uh thursday at town hall and uh get my book
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inferno which is a uh fun novel inspired by andrew uh he said go out and make culture i was sick of
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boring novels that were you know the same hero hero has an enemy fights the enemy wins i want some else
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and i wrote about uh uh political correctness and stuff and i i like to think andrew's up there uh
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kicking back with a beer reading uh reading my novels uh and also my non-fiction like will be
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back from regnery and uh is inferno on at amazon can people go there they go get it amazon yeah go
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get it amazon kurt thank you very much honor to have you on here thank you very much sir appreciate it
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uh do we have the levin clip uh ready or let me bring in amanda amelius amanda i i know that you're
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not shy about putting forward your thoughts and your analysis and your observations give me your
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observations about give me your observations about nevada this whole rnc uh fracas that we have going on
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because there's a intense fight right now over the leadership of the rnc and i think the direction of
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the rnc uh amanda milius oh dude i am pissed i you don't want to piss me off on twitter like is
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these people just dumb like this is the best thing is that whole fight that went on yesterday that uh
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kurt was also a warrior in and um let me just say real quick kurt a hundred percent correct as even
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just a measly comms person that did the exact same thing he did which is in 2020 jump uh on a plane
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with with nothing in my suitcase and stay there for two months because the rnc team was such a failure
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that we had to come the day after the election and try and make uh make make something out of uh the
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mess that they had left because uh they certainly weren't interested in doing so absolutely we need
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our own perkins cooey by the way that's what he's describing he's describing perkins cooey and how to
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build that you know get a mark elias type and build a perkins coey 100 but go back for a second
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so the audience gets this you actually heard the call to arms and you went to nevada was nevada the
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state you went to yes because i worked there in 2016 so i was really familiar with the legal team
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that already was uh on on the ground who are actually really good people um in state there
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and uh it's a state that i started my political career in i know every single county extremely well
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because my first job was to do the reporting on counties uh back back in 2016 so i know everybody
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there i love nevada i love nevadans let me make it clear i love the people of nevada they deserve
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better than the rnc and they deserve much better than the nevada rnc i have a big problem with them
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too it is not just the main rnc like we've got big big problems in nevada nevada is one of the most
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corrupt states in it's like chicago style corruption from like the 30s i mean it's so
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bad and and these people are are they deserve more these are hard-working moms and dads that take their
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only days off to come and and they volunteered for trump and they believed in trump and they believed
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in adam laxalt and they deserved so much better than what they got and to have this can i curse on
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the show i forget no no you're gonna do it anyway okay we'd like you not to but you're a man you're
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amanda millius you're amanda millius so what are we this this this little this little crapper this
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little nobody this little 1200 account little nobody gets marched and i can see it because it used to
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be me when so when the boss would march in your office as the comms person and be like something
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bad is happening to me on twitter get on there and yell at these people and comes out there and
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comes after myself kurt people like caroline wren who is an absolute hero for the party um and
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everybody that came out in nevada because they failed they're gonna come after us oh my god i am
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gonna shred these guys hang on for a second the shredder amanda millius gonna return take a short
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and what are the republicans doing well let me tell you over here red state jennifer van laar
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biden's economy in three straight cycles of election losses the rnc's big spending days are back with a vengeance
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perhaps because these losses both rnc donors and committee members are intensely
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late last week red state provided a report dated october 7 of this year that examined rnc's
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calculated more than five hundred thousand dollars in private jet expenses sixty four thousand dollars at clothing retailers three hundred and twenty one thousand dollars in floral arrangements
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to determine how that compared to the rest of rona mcdonald's tenure
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red state examined rnc expenditures from twenty seventeen through twenty twenty two
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and in addition to a review of federal election commission data
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red state spoke with current vendors state party officials familiar with the workings former staffers
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several current rnc members to verify the numbers and dates
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our review found that amounts spent during the twenty one twenty two election cycles seem to have been
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par for the course and possibly even lower than previous portions of mcdaniel's tenure
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the private box raiders game was part of a retreat for senior staff members
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rnc funds were also used to fly the senior staffers
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and for their hotel rooms food and alcohol the staffers say
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senior staff retreats were also held at the salamander resort in spawn virginia
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in twenty twenty one and twenty twenty two according to another staffer
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at the twenty twenty one retreat held from march nineteen to twenty one
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thirty senior staffers and their families attended
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and the rnc paid for katie walsh and mike shields to speak to the group
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fcc reporting shows that the rnc has paid two hundred and sixty thousand to the resort
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classified as travel expenses and venue rental and catering
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the dates of the various entertainment expenditures were provided by former staffers
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under current leadership the rnc has spent more than one hundred and fifty thousand dollars
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on what could be considered non-essential office expenses
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looney twenty twenty five thousand dollars on commonwealth joe coffee
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nearly seven thousand on candies and diffuse excuse me
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in addition the committee's fec report shows expenditures totaling
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three hundred eighty one thousand classified as furniture expense
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more than one hundred thousand was spent on high-end clothing stores such as
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uh reebok rei nordstrom the vine of vinlin fines
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footjoy ralph lauren carhart and smathers and branson
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an rnc vendor tells red state that the vineyard vines expense twelve thousand
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was likely for embroidered jackets rnc staffers recently received
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according to the financial the rnc is quite generous to its donors
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spending seventeen million on donor memorials and mementos
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by legendary dc jeweler and hand and christmas ornaments
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from tramart the company that makes the white house christmas ornaments are listed as donor memento expenses
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but the financials also include sixty five thousand and office supplies from manhand
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the records also include more than a hundred thousand and
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and hair and makeup services and dry cleaning expenses
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which presumably are for mcdaniel's media appearances and wardrobe
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dry cleaning expenses are categorized mainly as office supplies or travel expenses
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while the hair and makeup services are categorized as media preparation
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mcdaniel did not reply to red state's request for comment prior to publication
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emma vaughn an rnc employee and spokesperson for mcdaniel's reelection campaign
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provided a statement i will give you that statement afterwards
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and i noticed mcconnell never talks about her or the rnc
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or carl rove and the millions that that guy makes
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and he just had an op-ed trashing any bigs in the wall street journal
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you ought to keep your mouth shut and sit this one out
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because too many conservatives simply despise you
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mark and i don't agree on everything as people know
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why they were not able to even pay for the paper
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was adam laxalt not being in the united states senate