GOP Offers Valentine's Day Cruise With John Ashcroft, etal...
Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2009 10:51 am
That's pretty insane. I still don't think it beats Spend a night at the Whitehouse Bed and Breakfast with Innkeeper Bill for 50k
Clinton told him of a strategy he dreamed up for raising money. He was going to invite big money donors for a "sleep-over" at the White House. He expected his Hollywood friends would each kick in $25 to $50 thousand or more to sleep in the Lincoln bedroom.
After the election, when the fat hit the fire and the skillet was in the hands of a GOP-controlled congressional committee, Clinton told reporters that he wasn't thinking—his mother had just died. Clinton could not understand why the American people were upset that he had "rented out" rooms in the White House to large contributors to his reelection. campaign. In his mind, as the occupant, the White House was his home and as such, he believed, anything he did in the privacy of his home was his business.
