HUSH $$$ - Ex-RNC Staffers Being Paid - 6 Figures - To Keep Quiet

GOP Hush Money? Former Aide to Michael Steele Gets $100K
Republican Sources Say Ex-RNC Staffers Are Being Paid To Keep Quiet

By MATTHEW MOSK
June 22, 2010

The Republican National Committee has doled out more than $100,000 to the top staffer let go after the embarrassing discovery that the party spent nearly $2,000 to entertain young donors at a sex-themed Hollywood night club.

One GOP insider described the six-figure payment to outgoing RNC Chief of Staff Kenneth K. McKay IV – negotiated even though McKay had scarcely a year on the job -- as "hush money" to keep a former employee from divulging details of Michael Steele's controversial tenure as RNC chair.

Party insiders told ABC News the six-figure payout represented McKay's severance package, and came in exchange for him signing a strict confidentiality agreement. Two RNC sources, both of whom spoke on the condition they not be identified, said similar deals were struck with others who had been forced out in the last few months. Both sources have been critical of Steele's leadership. They said in separate interviews that, while they were not alleging that anything illegal took place, they believe the McKay agreement and others like it are aimed at preventing the departing cast of employees from disparaging Steele. McKay, who had received $163,000 in salary payments, did not respond to messages left at his home in Rhode Island.

more:
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/hush-money-top-aide-rnc-chairman-michael-steele/story?id=10891583

I'm behind a month on my mortgage and the extra $100,000 would make it easier to catch up!

No taxes.....for life! And a Corvette.....and the mortgage paid..... and any stereo I want.....

:eyes:

I should be able to find a job where I could easily pay off my school loans--and why I could never find one.

"We are soooo sorry we didn't party heartier at the faux lesbian diaper-clad rentboy bondage & luggage-handling male-escort domme & sub Club Apologia. It is, after all, a Republicon Family Pharisee Value not just to collapse morally, but to borrow&spend and to FAIL spectacularly."

- Republicons

Apparently not For years now, they've committed every crime in plain sight, and no one ever says "boo".

Like living in an episode of "I, Claudius".

the choice of a sex-theme is also not that outrageous. This is really about nothing IMHO other than taking down Michael Steele (not that he doesn't deserve to be taken down but at least they could find something more substantive.)