Tuesday, January 10, 2006
Did Melissa Bean Trip Up?
The Ft Lauderdale trip was the most expensive--$3,670. Sponsored by the Commonwealth Fund of the JFK School of Government of Harvard University, “health policy” was the topic. But it was cold in Chicago in mid-January.
New Orleans was the second most expensive excursion--$1,787. It was paid for by the Democratic Leadership Council. Do you think the magnolias have already bloomed in April?
The trip to New York cost $1,026 and was financed by the New York Stock Exchange. Think she got to take in a play after dinner?
Cheapest were the visits to the Merc, Options Exchange and Board of Trade in Chicago and the Chicago Stock Exchange—just $352. Nothing for travel, $152 for meals, but there is $200 for “other.” This is the largest “other” gift of all four trips. The category only had $11 in New Orleans, for example, and $146 in Ft. Lauderdale. One wonders why the largest gift in Chicago was for “other.”
Bean is a woman who pounded incumbent Congressman Phil Crane for taking junket after junket. Now, she has four (or three, if you don’t count Chicago) of her own.
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New Orleans was the second most expensive excursion--$1,787. It was paid for by the Democratic Leadership Council. Do you think the magnolias have already bloomed in April?
The trip to New York cost $1,026 and was financed by the New York Stock Exchange. Think she got to take in a play after dinner?
Cheapest were the visits to the Merc, Options Exchange and Board of Trade in Chicago and the Chicago Stock Exchange—just $352. Nothing for travel, $152 for meals, but there is $200 for “other.” This is the largest “other” gift of all four trips. The category only had $11 in New Orleans, for example, and $146 in Ft. Lauderdale. One wonders why the largest gift in Chicago was for “other.”
Bean is a woman who pounded incumbent Congressman Phil Crane for taking junket after junket. Now, she has four (or three, if you don’t count Chicago) of her own.
To return to McHenry County Blog, click here.
# posted by Cal Skinner : 9:55 AM
