It is Good To Know Rich People
That must be what Karen Weldin Stewart is thinking.
Her 300 person Hotel DuPont Gold Ballroom swearing in party cost an estimated $10,000. Not too shabby.
h/t Mike Mathews was talking about this yesterday.
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Just to clarify, the $10000 is my estimate. I’m told by others that 300 in the Gold Ballroom with “great” food could have cost even more. I’m working on getting some mroe details. Will be in touch.
I say we crash it!
So who is paying for all this and why?
Squishy. “Cost”=past-tense. Party was on Tuesday.
Its good to make stuff up about rich people, particularly when you have no facts.
I’m told by others that 300 in the Gold Ballroom with “great” food could have cost even more.
And if they gave each one a pony, I’m told by others that it could have cost even more!
Just a thought – $10,000? That’s it? I really don’t think you can throw a party that feeds 300 people for that little, and at the DuPont hotel no less. That’s $33 and change per person. I have friends who are trying to plan their weddings on a similar budget with a third of that guestlist and they’re freaking out.
I could be wrong though.
From The Hotel Dupont website.
For weddings, plan I is $98.00 pp plan IV is $120.00pp, but that includes tip.
Im sure those quotes are for full sit down meals. I think this was just heavy hors d’oeuvres.
A1,
Not sure I get your point, or where precious wittle ponies come into the equation.
Oh wait, now I get your point. KWS is a Democrat, and we’re not allowed to question those types on this blog, right? Or so you think…
“Good to know …???” Look who’s talking, you faux everyman.
Get over yourself, Mike — A1’s point is that you have some hearsay about the Dupont costs and no real facts yet. A thing that even you concede.
That said — it wouldn’t be too hard to call the Dupont meeting planning group, and see what 10K will buy you. Or maybe Elliot will show up and tell us how much it cost and who the donors were…
No im not going to “get over (my)self” Cassandra, because anonone has made it a continued point to raise up anything Democrat and tear down anything Republican. It is a simple man who keeps himself within the confines of dirty partisan thinking. I wouldn’t even call A1 a liberal, for his mind is too clouded. He’s nothing more than a poor, pitiful partisan.
Elitist. I hope she serves the left overs to the homeless sitting on the benches in Rodney Square.
anonone has made it a continued point to raise up anything Democrat and tear down anything Republican.
He is defending KWS or just spoiling for a fight with you? He seems to totally not like you. It happens.
And that’s fine. I just wish he’d come on my program — anonymous or no — so we could verbally duke out our differences. I think we’ve exhausted the possibilities of the “blog comment war.”
Mike,
You’re making stuff up about someone you flirted with on your radio show.
You don’t know:
1) How many people were actually there
2) How much it cost per person
3) Whether or not it cost $1000, $10,000 or $100,000.
4) Whether or not they gave away ponies.
KWS sounds like she is going to be a disaster as IC but we’re all gonna find out, aren’t we? My point is that if your gonna attack somebody, use facts and figures, not stuff you just made up.
BTW, I am a Democrat only so I can vote in the Democratic primaries. I am way to the left of most of Democrats. You can rip lousy D’s to your heart’s content and I’ll be right there with you. But please use facts, that’s all.
who cares about any of this? the woman has no money in the bank and hasn’t raised much money according to her finance reports (I need to check out the year end report, haven’t done that yet – but I don’t think there will be a lot more there) but she is throwing a party for winning an election that she didn’t win but only got by default because its a good year for the democrats (in no reason part of her work).
She should just donate all the money to charity instead of spending what she doesn’t have — or pay of some more of her bills and her mortgages or whatever…
Did we ever figure out the bonding problem with her? Can she be bonded? Does she need to be bonded?
And if I hear her one more time say that she will use her experience to make the changes we need – thereby kicking Denn in the ass every time she says it – then I will really scream.
Oh – do you all want to laugh? She came up to me on return day and asked me for my resume – VERY FUNNY…
no thanks, I don’t do cheap
I would be willing to bet it cost a lot more than $10 grand. But with all those “insurance companies she wants to come to Wilmo Delmo, betting some of them picked up the tab…I thought we were in a recession, depression thingy….this is the freaking insurance commissioner…not the Guvner. Outrageous.
Liz, the amount of money over which the IC has influence is many, many times more than what the Guv has.
This is one of the disappointments of this elected office; no one really knows about it or cares, except those who do understand that its either:
1) a fearsome responsibility; or
2) a really great way to make some very rich friends.
Ask Levinson which one he thought it was.
Ok…one more time. Why is everyone so outraged and surprised about this pompous fraud? Haven’t you heard enough about this for the past few months? Do you still need to be convinced? This is a stupid, uneducated, totally self-involved narcissist who loves money and the things it can buy, and nothing else, and who has pursued this office for that reason alone for the past 10 years. If you want to nail her, check out her out-of-state lawyer donors on her disclosure filings, which is where she got insurance industry money funneled to her campaign, to pay off the judgements against her, and no doubt to fund the obscene and pretentious thing at the Hotel Dupont. Let’s see how long her hired help who will cover for her incompetence will take to get sick of it and become convinced they need to rectify the situation. Not long if they have integrity at all.
Disbelief:
Your second alternative is more to the point. Working for Levinson as a clerk back in the late ’80s and seeing his example is how she learned how well she could do as commissioner, so to speak. It took her long enough, but she got there.
Let’s see how long her hired help who will cover for her incompetence will take to get sick of it and become convinced they need to rectify the situation. Not long if they have integrity at all.
It is not fair to shift the burden of policing the vanity of the Ins Comish to the staffers. They have full time jobs already.
Jason:
I wasn’t referring to the staffers, all of whom are good people, but to Elliott Jacobson, erstwhile campaign manager and now chief of staff, her “assistant” Mike Gould, and the guy Steve something she’s bringing in from Illinois to be her deputy. By the way, his move is being paid for by DE taxpayers. She probably owes him for something to hire him from out of state rather than someone from Delaware.
I think the IC office isn’t funded by the taxpayers, but from fees from the Insurance industry.. so they would be paying for the move.
Then again, our insurance money pays for the fees.
“Then again, our insurance money pays for the fees.”
BINGO! Shields gets the “Pierced the Bullshit” award!
Speaking of the office staff. What an awful difference it will be for them to have to tolerate this vapid, vain, and arrogant moron after working with Matt Denn for four years, a modest, unassuming, hard-working and highly qualified commissioner who elevated the office to a “higher standard” of the kind his successor who lied her way into the office couldn’t even imagine. It just goes to show you what attaching yourself to certain people like McDowell and misrepresenting your background can do. Wonder if she’ll still keep up the sham of her non-existing “Weldin Group”, the supposed insurance/reinsurance consulting firm that existed only on paper, now that she doesn’t need it any more.
Matt Denn for four years, a modest, unassuming, hard-working and highly qualified commissioner who elevated the office to a “higher standard”
You forgot “charming” and “manly.”
I kid. MD was the bomb in that office. I’m sure he’ll be a kick ass Lt Gov.