By KENNETH P. VOGEL & MARIN COGAN | 1/4/11 4:28 AM EST
With House Republican leaders anxious to set an austerity tone for their ascendance , the lavish fundraiser scheduled at a trendy Washington hotel to benefit a dozen GOP freshmen is not what Speaker of the House John Boehner had in mind.
Boehner, whose name was featured on the invitation, is nonetheless skipping the event at the W Hotel, where lobbyists, political action committee managers and others paying the $2,500 ticket price for a performance by country music star LeAnn Rimes . . .
The office of incoming Majority Leader Eric Cantor, another featured invitee, was noncommittal Monday night when asked whether he’d attend.
Conservative blogger Matt Lewis said:
If incoming GOP freshmen were hoping to bring fiscal responsibility and ‘family values’ to Washington, they may have gotten off to an interesting start, citing the event’s steep ticket prices, as well as Rimes’s confessed extramarital affair and her recent appearance in a “Sexy Santa” outfit at a gay men’s chorus Christmas performance.
The man behind the event, is Rep. Jeff Denham of California.
Denham, a two-term California state senator whose congressional campaign billed him as “one of the best fundraisers in the California Legislature," could not be reached for comment.
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Boehner, whose name was featured on the invitation, is nonetheless skipping the event at the W Hotel, where lobbyists, political action committee managers and others paying the $2,500 ticket price for a performance by country music star LeAnn Rimes . . .
The office of incoming Majority Leader Eric Cantor, another featured invitee, was noncommittal Monday night when asked whether he’d attend.
Conservative blogger Matt Lewis said:
If incoming GOP freshmen were hoping to bring fiscal responsibility and ‘family values’ to Washington, they may have gotten off to an interesting start, citing the event’s steep ticket prices, as well as Rimes’s confessed extramarital affair and her recent appearance in a “Sexy Santa” outfit at a gay men’s chorus Christmas performance.
The man behind the event, is Rep. Jeff Denham of California.
Denham, a two-term California state senator whose congressional campaign billed him as “one of the best fundraisers in the California Legislature," could not be reached for comment.
source: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0111/46999.html
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