From the NY Times article “Donors Worried by Clinton Campaign Spending:”
"Nearly $100,000 went for party platters and groceries before the Iowa caucuses, even though the partying mood evaporated quickly. Rooms at the Bellagio luxury hotel in Las Vegas consumed more than $25,000; the Four Seasons, another $5,000. And top consultants collected about $5 million in January, a month of crucial expenses and tough fund-raising…. Even small expenses piled up in January: the campaign spent more than $11,000 on pizza and $1,200 on Dunkin’ Donuts runs.”
From the imaginary senior staffer’s mouth to our ears…:
Mwah-wak mwa-mama is. (Gulp.) Hang on.
Stef… Stef! I can’t work this card reader.
Hang on.
Well: My hands are full too!
Just a second. I’ve got a doozy for you.
Stef! …. Damn it! Huh? … Because I don’t want to put my coffee and doughnut down to open the friggin door because I’m on the phone with the-
Ok. She’s coming. Here she comes. You ever stay at the Bellagio? No? Nice digs.
Tadaaaa! Look at you: it works. Thank you darling.
Ok here we go. Here we go, so-
Nooooo. Waaaaaaait. Oh shit. Noooo. What is this crap?
Sorry for the language buddy- hang on.
Noooo, what is this? Steeeef! Is this a joke? Huh, the bed’s facing west. Are you kidding me? We’re facing east! Right? We’re pointed towards Washington D.C. Always with the end in mind, right? Huh? You didn’t check that, did you? Huh? Even in our sleep we stay on message, right? Ok? Well….. Well, you do that.
Ok… All right… She’s going to “look into” what happened. I’m just saying is all, it’s like I’ve got Barack Obama on my advance team, you know what I’m saying? Stef’s making my point for me, you know? It’s like, we’re going to be ready on day one, the candidate, Hillary’s going to be ready on day one. And, he’s going to be like… uh… Kosovo: that’s where you get those mongo size containers of detergent, right? It’s where you get cases of buffalo wings, right?
What? … Stef. Hello, I know. Where it is. I’m joking on Costco/Kosovo… Well of course it’s not funny if I have to explain it. But I’m sure he-
Stef’s wondering if you got the-
Yeah. Duh, he got it. How bout you do your job and I do mine, how’s that Stef, ok?
So anyhow. Buddy. Sorry bout all the interruptions. Tell you what: why don’t you just pop on over, we’ve got a killer spread and it’d be a shame to have it all go to waste. Ok?
Hey Stef?
What? No I don’t care who you bring ‘slong as they can say “ready on day one.”
Stef!
Ok? So I’m going to give you over to Stef and she’s going to take down the names, ok? I’ve had three cups of coffee already and my body’s saying I gotta read a stack of polling data, if you know what I mean…. All right? Ok, so we’ll do more of this later, ok? All right.
Stef- … Stef! Will you take this guy? Please.
