The Young Eagles & Mike Castle

Filed in National by on April 6, 2010

Commenter anonone points us to this link from Politico. The article explains what the Young Eagles program is supposed to do and how it works. The program is supposed to encourage younger rich Republicans to become high dollar donors to the RNC. What it actually does is function as a way for the RNC to pay for events for young Republicans (like the lesbian bondage sex club). Included in this report is a description of one Young Eagles event attended by Mike Castle.

Take the group’s October outing to a Monday night National Football League game between the Washington Redskins and the Philadelphia Eagles at FedEx Field in suburban Washington, for which the RNC paid $20,300 to rent a suite, according to the committee’s FEC filings.

The filings also show a $5,000 payment to the Redskins’ stadium about the same time for “office supplies,” which could not be immediately explained by an RNC spokesman, who also did not know how much was raised by the event.

But among those who took in the game from the RNC’s suite were Steele, Rep. Mike Castle (R-Del.) and Erik Brown, the Young Eagle member who footed the Voyeur bill — none of whom contributed to the RNC in 2009 or through February 2010.

In other filings items like alcohol were classified as “office supplies.” I think it’s time to ask Mike Castle what kind of office supplies he was using at the Eagles game in October.

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  1. nemski says:

    Driking office supplies is kind of dangerous.

  2. What does white out taste like?

  3. liberalgeek says:

    The key to the white-out is to let it breathe a little before drinking it. It is awesome with some nice paperclips. Mmmmm.

  4. Rebecca says:

    I wonder what effect white-out has on former stroke victims. Can’t be good.

  5. Free Radical says:

    I once blacked out from white-out.

  6. anon says:

    I wonder what effect white-out has on former stroke victims. Can’t be good.

    Yes, but the X-rays are clean and error-free.

  7. MJ says:

    I heard that a nice, dry white out is good with fava beans.

  8. anon says:

    Maybe Republicans are huffing Magic Markers. That would explain a lot.

  9. anon says:

    Toner cartridges are good for sniffing. Or so I’ve heard…

  10. Joanne Christian says:

    They are? I miss those mimeograph days, and teacher sanctioned sniff sessions, pre math test. Sure beat the chalk dust from eraser clapping:)

  11. Is this one of Castle’s game buddies?

    “My ancestors, actually, weren’t on the Mayflower. They sent the servants over first to get the cottage ready.”

    Haw haw haw haw haw! That’s from the Facebook page of J. Roby Penn IV, the 29-year-old oil-and-gas heir who serves as the mid-Atlantic director of the RNC’s Young Eagles program.

    Also: “I believe in a purpose driven life… if life’s purpose is backgammon and tennis.”

    And: “If you don’t have an oil well, get one.”

    Charming.

  12. JUST KIDDIN' says:

    Alternet today:

    Democrats and the Teabaggers: We are lead by a party that has betrayed the principles we claim to espouse, from universal health care, to our permanent war economy, demands for quality affordable public education,to jobs for the working class. The hatred expressed by the right wing movement for the college educated elites, who created or at least did nothing to halt the financial debacle, is not misplaced.

    Our educated elites wallowing in self righteousness, wasted its time in the boutique of activism of political correctness as tens of millons of workers lost their jobs.

    The blame lies with us. WE created the monster. Teabaggers articulate their rage like idiots, while Democrats explain it like idiots. All of us, black, white, middle and working class, native american, young and old..were betrayed by the democrats and their bullshit explanations as much of the same. Republicans are Worse!

    But we werent betrayed by republicans, they never promised to protect us from mega banks or multi national corporations. The democratic party is analogous to a corrupt police station which constantly excuses its own corruption claiming the “gangsters are worse”.

  13. cassandra_m says:

    Yeah, he’s real. They get how he say she say works. You won’t get any media mediation of what may be real or not. So the game is to get your story told often enough and in enough places so that it becomes the narrative.

  14. Oh yes, Republicans have been pushing this for weeks. They are accusing Democratic Congressmen, their staffers and media who witnessed the incidents of lying.

  15. MJ says:

    The GOP denials remind me of the Keith Hernandez episodes on Seinfeld when Kramer and Newman blamed Hernandez for spitting on them. Maybe we need to come up with a Zapruder-like film that shows the spittal frame-by-frame.

  16. Jason330 says:

    What Mike Castle does in bondage nightclubs or the Longworth House Office building sex club is his business.

  17. Joanne Christian says:

    Jason330 only asks for the itemized receipts to prove it.