What room did she stay in at Caesars? The Roman Orgy Room? Oh wow. I must apologize for giving you all that mental image of our former beloved Governor.
Here is the image of the bill, courtesy of the News Journal.
This bill is from a trip to Atlantic City for the Council of State Governments’ Eastern Regional Conference. She spend over $1,000 during this tip, including a $350 registration fee and, as shown above, $679.46 for one night at Caesars Atlantic City Hotel and Casino.
A reservations clerk with Caesars said the room listed on Minner’s receipt is a deluxe room and that the price is normal for a Saturday night during peak season. According to the hotel, a deluxe room will make you “feel like you’re walking on hallowed ground as you traverse the dazzling, modern hallways to your guest room,” and includes dark wood furniture, artistic lighting and a flat-screen television.
$125 a night at the Sheraton a block away would have killed her? Now, the News Journal article details other official trips like this one to Atlantic City, and details how much was spent on these trips. Indeed, during a National Governors Association meeting in Philly in July, she charged the state $1,138.39 for two nights at the Philadelphia Ritz Carlton!! Yo RAM, Wilmington is a 20 minute drive away! While she can and should be criticized for taking these trips while the state budget is in crisis, at least they were for official state business, and thus it would be proper for the state to reimburse her for her expenses, no matter how inappropriate or outlandish.
Where the former Governor could be in actual legal trouble is getting the state to reimburse travel expenses for political activities, like campaigning in Iowa or the DNC convention in Denver. She apparently spent $1,000 for the partisan travel to Iowa and $3,000 for the convention in Denver. Minner is supposed to pay for these trips herself, either from her own money or from her own campaign funds. The News Journal reports her campaign fund had $18,824.25 available in January, the leftovers of two bids for governor and her years as lieutenant governor and in the Legislature. Using those funds for these partisan trips to Iowa and Denver would have been legal. And she has plenty of those campaign funds to use. But what does the bitch do? Charge us! She should be arrested.