Pelosi Spends $16,000 on Flowers
I guess she likes flowers:
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has spent $16,000 on flowers since taking office, one reason why she spent 63 percent more in her high-profile inaugural year than her low-key predecessor did last year.
Pelosi (D-Calif.) spent a little more than $3 million in the first nine months of 2007, records show, compared to the $1.8 million Rep. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) spent during the same period in 2006.
$16,000 on flowers? What did she buy? An entire forest?
Sadly for Republicans, well for American taxpayers, Pelosi isn’t the only bigspender: “House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) has increased spending 23 percent above what Pelosi spent when she held the same job.”
I had no idea that the politicians who hold these offices have so much discretion on the budget allotted for staff and other <ahem> essentials. Why isn’t the amount determined by a normal budgeting process with oversight??
And geez…50 staffers? Whatever for? Oh yeah, ordering the flower arrangements I guess.
Just another sign that the Dems in office = zero improvement.
Oh, I don’t know, interested, all of those floral arrangements must be improving the ambiance.
LOL exactly.