w1che
December 1st, 2003, 03:04 PM
You just have to believe a liberal when they say they are for the poor & how they also feel the pain... You have Kerry & $250 dollar haircuts & now you have this clown...
November 29, 2003 -- The Rev. Al Sharpton's long-shot presidential campaign is sparing no expense when it comes to travel and dining - even though it's nearly broke.
Despite having just over $24,000 on hand and owing more than $177,000, Sharpton is touring the country in style, according to the most recently available campaign financial data.
In the month of June alone, Sharpton spent more than $15,000 on swank hotels from Columbia, S.C., to Scottsdale, Ariz.
A single July jaunt to the luxury Four Seasons in Los Angeles cost $7,343.27 - more than 5 percent of the total $121,314.60 campaign cash Sharpton raised in the third quarter.
Other hotels benefiting from the reverend's run for the White House include the ultra-posh Phoenician in Arizona; the Mansion on Turtle Creek in Dallas; the Ritz Carlton in Dearborn, Mich.; and Miami's world-famous Mandarin Oriental.
Sharpton told The Post he is on a $200-a-day stipend from his campaign for hotel expenditures.
The Democratic White House hopeful also said many of the hotel stops coincided with various events sponsored by organizations that will reimburse him later.
A campaign source told The Post Sharpton is fond of saying he "grew up living with cockroaches, and he doesn't want to live with them anymore."
The campaign also spared no expense on food and transportation.
Two charges at the city eatery Harry Cipriani ran nearly $700, and the campaign shelled out almost $1,700 for a single limousine service in Chicago.
Sharpton is expected to request public matching funds in which taxpayers match up to $250 per individual contribution to the campaign, though he hasn't yet filed the appropriate paperwork with the Federal Election Committee.
The campaign's spending habits on travel are particularly striking when compared to the front-running Democratic primary candidate.
Former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean - who had $12 million on hand as of Oct. 15 and is not accepting public financing - often stays with his mother when in New York and always puts his staff up at non-luxury hotels, according to a campaign source.
Hotels listed in Dean's financial statements include Howard Johnson's, the Comfort Inn and the anything-but-glamorous Franklin Hotel on the Upper East Side.
November 29, 2003 -- The Rev. Al Sharpton's long-shot presidential campaign is sparing no expense when it comes to travel and dining - even though it's nearly broke.
Despite having just over $24,000 on hand and owing more than $177,000, Sharpton is touring the country in style, according to the most recently available campaign financial data.
In the month of June alone, Sharpton spent more than $15,000 on swank hotels from Columbia, S.C., to Scottsdale, Ariz.
A single July jaunt to the luxury Four Seasons in Los Angeles cost $7,343.27 - more than 5 percent of the total $121,314.60 campaign cash Sharpton raised in the third quarter.
Other hotels benefiting from the reverend's run for the White House include the ultra-posh Phoenician in Arizona; the Mansion on Turtle Creek in Dallas; the Ritz Carlton in Dearborn, Mich.; and Miami's world-famous Mandarin Oriental.
Sharpton told The Post he is on a $200-a-day stipend from his campaign for hotel expenditures.
The Democratic White House hopeful also said many of the hotel stops coincided with various events sponsored by organizations that will reimburse him later.
A campaign source told The Post Sharpton is fond of saying he "grew up living with cockroaches, and he doesn't want to live with them anymore."
The campaign also spared no expense on food and transportation.
Two charges at the city eatery Harry Cipriani ran nearly $700, and the campaign shelled out almost $1,700 for a single limousine service in Chicago.
Sharpton is expected to request public matching funds in which taxpayers match up to $250 per individual contribution to the campaign, though he hasn't yet filed the appropriate paperwork with the Federal Election Committee.
The campaign's spending habits on travel are particularly striking when compared to the front-running Democratic primary candidate.
Former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean - who had $12 million on hand as of Oct. 15 and is not accepting public financing - often stays with his mother when in New York and always puts his staff up at non-luxury hotels, according to a campaign source.
Hotels listed in Dean's financial statements include Howard Johnson's, the Comfort Inn and the anything-but-glamorous Franklin Hotel on the Upper East Side.