I fully expect to see a lectern-based character in upcoming SNL sketches. Not a character standing at a lectern (like Melissa McCarthy) but an actual lectern character, wearing a foam rubber lectern outfit. Like Eddie Murphy as Gumby, dammit
Unless that lectern is made of gold I cannot fathom how it could be worth $19k…
Obvious kickback. Lock her up?
“We’ve investigated ourselves and found nothing wrong! Case closed”.
I expect this’ll a) cost the tax payers much more than $19k, b) pad out some GOP crony’s billings for the year, and c) ultimately find no wrong doing despite a preponderance of evidence in a Billy Barr style conclusion.
Seeing as it’s a GOP led audit she doesn’t have anything to worry about. They have no regard on how they spend the taxpayers money.
I’m no lectern expert, but a stand for a mic and some papers doesn’t seem like the kind of thing that should cost as much as a car, let alone on the taxpayers’ dime. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
They just need to know what model it is and if the rest of them should get one.
Of all the creatures you see when you turn over a rock, she’s the big white hairy bug that hisses
She should try giving the auditors $3MM in neo-Nazi money. It worked for Ken Paxton!
Isn’t the rhetoric from the GOP usually that we can’t trust Democrats to investigate themselves?
Why are they trusting their own party to investigate themselves?
The evil, lying cow could have paid for the lectern out of change from daddy’s moon-shine funds & easily avoided all this hubbub. But greed doesn’t have common sense…
I’m sorry a GOP-led audit?
Is that English?
Literally her only qualification for office is her extreme willingness to lie to voters.
Like the impeachment of the Texas AG?
Another shitheel Republican.
GOP led audit. I just had soda come out of my nose. Not pleasant.
Get fucked, you crook.
They will surprisingly find no wrongdoing
Oddly reminds me of Michelle Wolf’s jab at her at the WH Correspondents dinner. Sarah burns facts and uses the ash to make a perfect Smokey-eye. Maybe she’s born with it, maybe it’s lies.
oh no I’m sure they’ll go as hard on Huckabee as they went on Paxton. Remind me again how hard they went on Paxton…?
“Hide your grift better next time.”
Don’t fuck with Gronk.
For anyone who is scratching their heads about this (as I was last week or so when reading about it), this isn’t *really* about a lectern.
Sanders wanted a couple of politically-connected gal pals to hang with her in Paris while she was there for some aerospace convention, but the government wouldn’t pay for their travel.
So she invoiced a “lectern” 😉 from one of them for $19k in June, just before the trip.
Like Trump, she wanted taxpayers to foot the bill for her vacation plans. But she done fucked up.
First, she put it on a state issued credit card…which is incredibly stupid because those are often tax exempt, which means they require a lot of documentation on purchases.
Second, she lied when asked about it by a reporter. Sanders *said* it was paid for with private funds and *not* taxpayer money…but receipts show otherwise.
Third, she said this was all just a mixup and that the lectern cost was already repaid from private funds…but moves to pay it back with private money weren’t made until after a reporter started digging.
Fourth, in the middle of this unfolding scandal, Sanders *called a special session of the state legislature to roll back the states transparency and FOIA laws!* Specifically, she wanted the governors travel and security funding and arrangements to be secret and undiscoverable by the public. She cited her kids’ safety…
And sixth, her staffers and aides have been altering the paperwork to make it look like the reimbursement plan was intended all along. *Thats called tampering with an official document, kids!* So her offices have a few potential criminal defendants sweating bullets atm.
So, good job Sarah Huckleberry Sanders! 👏
You are Making Arkansas Gifting Great Again!
did she eat it?
This whole family is just trash. That includes Mike. Stop electing these frauds to office!!!!
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I fully expect to see a lectern-based character in upcoming SNL sketches. Not a character standing at a lectern (like Melissa McCarthy) but an actual lectern character, wearing a foam rubber lectern outfit. Like Eddie Murphy as Gumby, dammit
Unless that lectern is made of gold I cannot fathom how it could be worth $19k…
Obvious kickback. Lock her up?
“We’ve investigated ourselves and found nothing wrong! Case closed”.
I expect this’ll a) cost the tax payers much more than $19k, b) pad out some GOP crony’s billings for the year, and c) ultimately find no wrong doing despite a preponderance of evidence in a Billy Barr style conclusion.
Seeing as it’s a GOP led audit she doesn’t have anything to worry about. They have no regard on how they spend the taxpayers money.
I’m no lectern expert, but a stand for a mic and some papers doesn’t seem like the kind of thing that should cost as much as a car, let alone on the taxpayers’ dime. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
They just need to know what model it is and if the rest of them should get one.
Of all the creatures you see when you turn over a rock, she’s the big white hairy bug that hisses
She should try giving the auditors $3MM in neo-Nazi money. It worked for Ken Paxton!
Isn’t the rhetoric from the GOP usually that we can’t trust Democrats to investigate themselves?
Why are they trusting their own party to investigate themselves?
The evil, lying cow could have paid for the lectern out of change from daddy’s moon-shine funds & easily avoided all this hubbub. But greed doesn’t have common sense…
I’m sorry a GOP-led audit?
Is that English?
Literally her only qualification for office is her extreme willingness to lie to voters.
Like the impeachment of the Texas AG?
Another shitheel Republican.
GOP led audit. I just had soda come out of my nose. Not pleasant.
Get fucked, you crook.
They will surprisingly find no wrongdoing
Oddly reminds me of Michelle Wolf’s jab at her at the WH Correspondents dinner. Sarah burns facts and uses the ash to make a perfect Smokey-eye. Maybe she’s born with it, maybe it’s lies.
oh no I’m sure they’ll go as hard on Huckabee as they went on Paxton. Remind me again how hard they went on Paxton…?
“Hide your grift better next time.”
Don’t fuck with Gronk.
For anyone who is scratching their heads about this (as I was last week or so when reading about it), this isn’t *really* about a lectern.
Sanders wanted a couple of politically-connected gal pals to hang with her in Paris while she was there for some aerospace convention, but the government wouldn’t pay for their travel.
So she invoiced a “lectern” 😉 from one of them for $19k in June, just before the trip.
Like Trump, she wanted taxpayers to foot the bill for her vacation plans. But she done fucked up.
First, she put it on a state issued credit card…which is incredibly stupid because those are often tax exempt, which means they require a lot of documentation on purchases.
Second, she lied when asked about it by a reporter. Sanders *said* it was paid for with private funds and *not* taxpayer money…but receipts show otherwise.
Third, she said this was all just a mixup and that the lectern cost was already repaid from private funds…but moves to pay it back with private money weren’t made until after a reporter started digging.
Fourth, in the middle of this unfolding scandal, Sanders *called a special session of the state legislature to roll back the states transparency and FOIA laws!* Specifically, she wanted the governors travel and security funding and arrangements to be secret and undiscoverable by the public. She cited her kids’ safety…
Fifth, she showed reporters [this supposedly “new” lectern](https://wehco.media.clients.ellingtoncms.com/img/photos/2023/09/26/image0_4_t800.jpeg?90232451fbcadccc64a17de7521d859a8f88077d).
Not only does it not look worth $19k, it also looks *quite a bit* [the one from her inauguration](https://mhobserver.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Sarah-Sanders-Inauguration-Podium-Speech-Flagd-3-1024×682.jpg), which was in January 🤔
And sixth, her staffers and aides have been altering the paperwork to make it look like the reimbursement plan was intended all along. *Thats called tampering with an official document, kids!* So her offices have a few potential criminal defendants sweating bullets atm.
So, good job Sarah Huckleberry Sanders! 👏
You are Making Arkansas Gifting Great Again!
did she eat it?
This whole family is just trash. That includes Mike. Stop electing these frauds to office!!!!
Wow. Honey Boo Boo has let herself go