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Lawsuit Nails Republicans for Big Hotel Tab

Seeded on Fri Feb 3, 2012 10:25 PM EST
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CHARLESTON, S.C. (CN) - The Southern Republican Leadership Conference booked nearly every room in the Charleston Place hotel for the Republican primary in January, and then skipped out on the $227,872 bill, the luxury venue claims in the city's court of common pleas.

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Repeated attempts have allegedly been unsuccessful at scheduling a meeting.
The hotel wants full payment of the $227,872 bill, plus punitive damages.

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Reply#1 - Fri Feb 3, 2012 10:25 PM EST
Tink-2285193

Now...that is some shameful shenanigans by the SLRC. But, I wonder how many other hotels and other places GOPTeaBag associated groups will skrew and/or leave high and dry before it's over.

    Reply#2 - Sat Feb 4, 2012 12:26 AM EST
    Par4TheCourse

    This is not the first time... if I remember correctly there was another one ..and one before that.. it seems every campaign cycle for the Republicans there is a something like this.. something to do with strip club?

    http://articles.nydailynews.com/2010-03-29/news/27060398_1_rnc-michael-steele-west-hollywood

    http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=6348232n

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    #2.1 - Sat Feb 4, 2012 9:44 AM EST
    Tink-2285193

    Yep...that strip club episode was a real doozie. Michael Steele still wears that one.

      #2.2 - Sun Feb 5, 2012 4:13 PM EST
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      truthseeker57

      Now isn't this just like a typical republican organization run by ego-inflated blowhards who see or place themselves in positions of superiority (real or imagined), doing in their deeds the very things that ordinary Americans would be nailed to the metaphoric wall over, while claiming to espouse moral values that supersede all other Americans!? For example, how many millions did Michael Steele put the Republican National Committee into debt for?

      In reality, the conference "was grossly undercapitalized, failed to observe corporate formalities, was insolvent, and was mere used as a façade for the operations of the defendant Cahaly," the lawsuit states. "Upon information and belief, the defendant Cahaly, an individual businessman, has sought to hide from the normal consequences of carefree entrepreneuring by doing so through a corporate shell."
      "Due to their incompetence, the defendants failed to properly plan or manage the Southern Republican Leadership Conference, and it was poorly attended," the hotel says. "The conference was so poorly attended as to cause one Republican candidate, Newt Gingrich, to cancel his appearance."

      I believe that if these people want to claim that corporations are people, then the corporations should be held to the stringent standards that average Americans are held. The fact is that most corporations operate with a personality filled with sociopathic and psychotic values, which for the woman/man on the street, would lead to court-required institutionalization, medications, and perhaps a lobotomy or two, as well as a few rounds of EST. They can't have it both ways.

      The hotel's complaint asks the court to pierce corporate veil so it pursue Cahaly and "such other individuals who may come to be identified and determined responsible."

      If they want to play hardball with the law, then honest, cunning lawmakers need to find the loophole that is enabling those corporations to pose as individuals, acting in defiance of the ethical behavior required of the social contract which we are required to abide by, and force the corporations to operate under the same legal auspices of the American Jill/Jane. After all, how many of us would loose our assets if we were to rip someone off of 1/4 million $$$? We cannot declare bankruptcy and just walk away, either. We have to forfeit something. Anyway . . . just a thought. Those greedy bastards!

        Reply#3 - Sat Feb 4, 2012 1:12 AM EST
        Par4TheCourse

        For example, how many millions did Michael Steele put the Republican National Committee into debt for?

        Yes.. it was Michael Steele .. Strip club as I mentioned in previous #2.1.

        So.. strip clubs and bailing out on a hotel bill is Republican/rightwing Christian things to do.

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        #3.1 - Sat Feb 4, 2012 9:47 AM EST
        truthseeker57

        Missed that post, Par4TheCourse. Don't know how- exhaustion, I guess.

        I am always amazed at how condescending, bigoted, and self-righteous in the realms of morality, and business and economics that the repubs can be, while blatantly disregarding the laws of morality that they herald as their very foundation. It is embarrassing to watch the idiocy that is unfolding over the airways and across the internet, making its way to the computers of our foreign brothers and sisters who must think us a nation of idiots- judged on the performance of the repub primary candidates. They come across as childhood bullies who can do nothing but name-call in the face of their adversaries. Statesmen they are not!

          #3.2 - Sun Feb 5, 2012 1:47 AM EST
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