This Is How They Stay So Rich

C’Mon, they’ve only got a couple of hundred mil to work with, people. You thought they paid the expenses when they hold their Republican only campaign rallies? Think again.

LA CROSSE, Wis. (AP) – The Bush-Cheney campaign has paid La Crosse $7,822 for part of the city’s expenses from President George W. Bush’s May 7 rally, a newspaper reported.

But other Wisconsin communities that billed the campaign for expenses from Bush’s visit that day have not been fully reimbursed, the La Crosse Tribune reported.

Prairie du Chien, for example, has not received the $12,249 it billed for Bush’s visit.

“When I talked with the Bush/Cheney headquarters, they suggested they were not liable, and we should bill the Secret Service,” said Mayor Cheryl Mader. “I do not anticipate that we will be getting any payment.”

La Crosse, Prairie du Chien and Viroqua were among several communities Bush visited during his May 7 tour of the Mississippi River farmlands in Iowa and Wisconsin. He touted his tax cuts and touched on issues such as the invasion of Iraq.

The communities spent thousands of dollars in providing security for the president.

La Crosse Common Council voted to charge the Bush-Cheney campaign $7,822, rather than the entire bill of more than $60,000.

Dubuque billed the campaign $10,217, but received $1,400 paid at the time of the visit, said Jean Nachtman, assistant finance director.

Yes, Let the “Secret Service” pay for those Republican campaign events that only Republicans are allowed to get in to. I assume the “Secret Service” is also only using Republican tax dollars.