McCain Robocall Operator Played Palin's Personal Shopper

[bigtree]

October 22, 2008, 2:22 pm

G.O.P. Consultant Reimbursed for Palin Shopping Spree

Jeff Larson is a prominent Republican consultant whose firm has been tied to the onslaught of negative robocalls from Senator John McCain’s campaign. Mr. Larson was also the chief executive of the local host committee for the Republican National Convention.

But it also appears Mr. Larson may have been the personal shopper for Gov. Sarah Palin’s shopping spree, or at least he initially picked up the tab. Federal Election Commission records appear to show that Mr. Larson was reimbursed by the Republican National Committee in September for more than $130,000 in purchases at Saks Fifth Avenue, Neiman Marcus, Macy’s, Barney’s New York and Atelier New York, a men’s clothing store.

Apart from Mr. Larson, the McIntosh Company in Dallas, which appears to be a fund-raising firm run by Alison McIntosh, who has been identified in news reports as a fund raiser for the McCain campaign, was apparently reimbursed for $4,537 in purchases at Macy’s in Minneapolis, according to the commission records.

It also appears that a woman by the name of Lisa Kline was reimbursed several hundred dollars for purchases made at high-end children’s stores in Minneapolis and New York.

Mr. Larson did not immediately return a message left for him today at his business in Minnesota. Republican officials confirmed the reimbursements to Mr. Larson but declined to comment further.

As for the robocalls, voters in a number of swing states have been receiving hundreds of thousands of automated telephone calls attacking Senator Barack Obama. A Democratic official in Minnesota who received one of the calls said he tracked it to FLS Connect, where Mr. Larson is a partner.


http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/22/gop-consultant-reimbursed-for-palin-shopping-spree/

[Melinda]

1. And this MoFo rents a basement to Norm Coleman, who in turn denounces the Mofo!?!

No one could question Normie's sincerity, right? Yeah, riiiiiiiight. :eyes:

[notadmblnd]

2. I can hear Sarah Palin right now..

Gee, ya know? I'd just love to run with ya, John, for vice president, but ya know.. me being only a pitbull with lipstick who's lived a humble life shooting wolves in Alaska, and governating around there, ah, me and my family, we don't have anything to wear. I'll just betcha you can helps us out here?