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Always Randy

(1,059 posts)
Mon Nov 12, 2012, 07:29 PM Nov 2012

John Sununu--sings "I'm Leaving, On a Jet Plane"

Sununu in an interview with Andrea Mitchell called President Obama, "lazy and disengaged.

As White House Chief of Staff, Sununu reportedly took personal trips, for skiing and other purposes, and classified them as official, for purposes such as conservation or promoting the Thousand Points of Light.[15] The Washington Post wrote that Sununu's jets "took him to fat-cat Republican fund-raisers, ski lodges, golf resorts and even his dentist in Boston."[15] Sununu had paid the government only $892 for his more than $615,000 worth of military jet travel.[16] Sununu said that his use of the jets was necessary because he had to be near a telephone at all times for reasons of national security.[17] Sununu became the subject of much late-night television humor over the incident.[15] Sununu worsened the situation shortly afterwards when, after leaking rumors of financial difficulties in his family, he traveled to a rare stamp auction at Christie's auction house in New York City from Washington in a government limousine, spending $5,000 on rare stamps.[18] Sununu then sent the car and driver back to Washington unoccupied while he returned on a corporate jet.[18] In the course of one week, 45 newspapers ran editorials on Sununu, nearly all of them critical of his actions.[19] At the recommendation of George W. Bush,[10] Sununu resigned his White House post on December 4, 1991.[

Sununu repaid over $47,000 to the government for the flights on the orders of White House counsel C. Boyden Gray, with the help of the Republican Party.[20] However, the reimbursements were at commercial rates, which are about one-tenth the cost of the actual flights; one ski trip to Vail, Colorado alone had cost taxpayers $86,330.[21]




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John Sununu--sings "I'm Leaving, On a Jet Plane" (Original Post) Always Randy Nov 2012 OP
Spam deleted by gkhouston (MIR Team) Dubster Nov 2012 #1
Sununu and his entire clan Anthony McCarthy Nov 2012 #2
A racist, a fraud, a bigot, and a good friend of Mitt Romney walk into a bar. Ikonoklast Nov 2012 #3
Teehee! NCLefty Nov 2012 #9
+1 nt ProudProgressiveNow Nov 2012 #10
On behalf of NH, I apologize NHDEMFORLIFE Nov 2012 #4
He skis? Floyd_Gondolli Nov 2012 #5
Yea, wondered about that too. Marymarg Nov 2012 #6
Even worse if he swims davidpdx Nov 2012 #11
I remember this guy as governor of NH when I was a kid. Maplegrass Nov 2012 #7
Better still "I'm Leavin on the Mars Rover" are_you_serious_1234 Nov 2012 #8
 

Anthony McCarthy

(507 posts)
2. Sununu and his entire clan
Mon Nov 12, 2012, 07:54 PM
Nov 2012

are Palin class moochers. Mooching off of Tufts, the state of New Hampshire, the federal government, on us. He is a piece of crap.

Ikonoklast

(23,973 posts)
3. A racist, a fraud, a bigot, and a good friend of Mitt Romney walk into a bar.
Mon Nov 12, 2012, 08:06 PM
Nov 2012

The bartender looks up and says, "What will you have, Mr. Sununu?"

NHDEMFORLIFE

(489 posts)
4. On behalf of NH, I apologize
Mon Nov 12, 2012, 08:17 PM
Nov 2012

This mobile tub of arrogance is about the worst our state has offered to national politics.

 

Floyd_Gondolli

(1,277 posts)
5. He skis?
Mon Nov 12, 2012, 08:41 PM
Nov 2012

How'd you like to be at the bottom of a run and see that blob barreling toward you at Mach 3. The physics of that would scare the shit out of me.

 

Maplegrass

(41 posts)
7. I remember this guy as governor of NH when I was a kid.
Tue Nov 13, 2012, 12:58 AM
Nov 2012

I think he congratulated me in the Union Leader for winning some silly spelling bee. I now congratulate him for winning the failure bee.

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