GOP Lawmaker Billed Taxpayers For Private Plane To Football Game

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March 3, 2015 10:30 am - NewsBehavingBadly.com

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WASHINGTON (AP) – Illinois Rep. Aaron Schock billed taxpayers at least three times for more than $14,000 in private air travel last fall, including for a trip to a Chicago Bears football game, The Associated Press has learned. The newly revealed expenses encompass plane travel around Illinois and to Washington. They add to the list of…


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D.B. Hirsch
D.B. Hirsch is a political activist, news junkie, and retired ad copy writer and spin doctor. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

15 responses to GOP Lawmaker Billed Taxpayers For Private Plane To Football Game

  1. Larry Schmitt March 3rd, 2015 at 10:36 am

    Of course he’s a “rising republican star.” He has learned to steal from the taxpayers. And don’t worry, he will have no trouble getting re-elected.

  2. William March 3rd, 2015 at 10:48 am

    Well he’s a fast learner. Right out of the gate, and he’s in with the big boys

    • Larry Schmitt March 3rd, 2015 at 11:19 am

      All “rising republican stars.”

    • StoneyCurtisll March 3rd, 2015 at 11:53 am

      I would love to see them all wearing orange.
      http://thumbs4.ebaystatic.com/d/l225/m/mjJRua9rSyLuAM1hzd4zAMA.jpg

      • Larry Schmitt March 3rd, 2015 at 12:26 pm

        That won’t happen, they make their own “ethics” rules.

  3. rg9rts March 3rd, 2015 at 11:16 am

    Gopee=ethics…..oxymoron

    • Larry Schmitt March 3rd, 2015 at 11:17 am

      Some kind of moron, anyway.

      • bluejayray March 3rd, 2015 at 6:15 pm

        Oxymoran maybe?

  4. StoneyCurtisll March 3rd, 2015 at 11:51 am

    GOP Lawmaker Billed Taxpayers For Private Plane To Football Game…
    I’m Schocked~!
    Or is it,I have been Schocked?

  5. Kim Connell March 3rd, 2015 at 12:27 pm

    Oops.

  6. Guy Lauten March 3rd, 2015 at 4:59 pm

    “Schock recently brought on board a team of campaign finance lawyers and public relations experts to address the controversy about his expenses.”
    Yeah? And who’s going to pay THEM?

    • thinkingwomanmillstone March 3rd, 2015 at 5:05 pm

      Guess who.

  7. bluejayray March 3rd, 2015 at 6:15 pm

    I just love the party of personal and fiscal responsibility.

  8. viva_democracy March 3rd, 2015 at 6:20 pm

    Last week, his office said he made good on his promise of personally reimbursing those costs.

    I’m guessing this is cuz he was caught with his hand in the cookie jar.

  9. oldfart March 4th, 2015 at 1:33 pm

    well… he could have taken them to a strip joint
    but funding has been cut for that…

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