When you love someone this much, you only use the best. Honeymoon.com. And to prove your love, you charge the honeymoon.com bill to the deep-pocket campaign contributors. After all, why should someone of Joe's stature spend his hard earned money on such a special occasion? Isn't that what the minions money is for?
Expenditure: Honeymoon.com
6625 Lyndale Av South
Minneapolis, MN 55423
$174.16 on 10/29/2008
Citizens for Joe Moore
Blognotes: Judging from Joe Moore's romantic prowess, it makes you wonder if Joe met Barb on eharmony.com too? How romantic is that?
image courtesy Tom Mannis. Information courtesy the Illinois State Board of Elections.
Correction: Sebastian James, treasurer for the Citizens for Joe Moore, has made a correction to this post in the comments section. We thank Mr. James for being forthcoming on the error. I, Craig, apology for teasing Joe Moore about this matter. {Eating crow.}
23 comments:
How can he possibly charge that to the taxpayers? Is he crazy? He has to know someone will call him out on it.
Wow - that is amazing - honeymoon.com? Classy!
On a completely separate topic - I'm always curious about something. Yesterday and many days I see 2 - 4 vehicles parked by the bathrooms at Loyola Park. It's winter - the doors are locked. I walk by there with the dogs - there's a separate door with a padlock on it and I hear men in there laughing like crazy. I can be at the park for an hour and they are still there! They appear to be city vehicles - one has a park logo on it.
Gerald, it's his campaign war chest, not the tax payer money. If that was the case, we'd all be screaming bloody hell.
Raz, that's call tax payer waste. No one is supervising these workers. So they can screw around most of the day, unnoticed. They must enjoy hanging out in a closed-for-the-season restroom. Why? Beats the hell out of me.
And Joe just publicly questioned Mayor Daley's spending on his own YouTube channel.
Yet Joe didn't turn away raises for himself and his bloated staff.
Joe Moore sent a $1000 for a face-painter at his back to school picnic last year. A thousand bucks!
Talk about wasteful spending.
Joe Moore pays Wayne Fraiser thousands and thousands of dollars as a campaign consultant.
Plus, Wayne Fraiser also is on the city of Chicago pay-role, as an aldermanic aide at $34,000 a year..
Not only wasteful spending, but also shades of convicted felon and the mayors campaign foot soldier, Robert Soriich.
On the surface it looks like Wayne Fraiser has a patronage job.
Isn't that illegal?
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Too bad I didn't save any of those Christmas cards he used to send out with his wife and young sons.
That's actually http://www.thehoneymoon.com/. It's in some random office building that houses a zillion offices. My mom retired from a job in that building last year.
what is honeymoon.com? tried to access - nothing comes up.
The expenditure was not for Joe's honeymoon. It was a wedding gift for a campaign worker.
I'm the Treasurer, and in the hubub of preparing the last disclosure filing, I didn't have the chance to check this expenditure with Joe.
I listed it as a travel expense because I confused it with a prior trip.
It was my error, and I apologize.
Thanks for clearing that up, Mr. James. I noticed the letter regarding the filing errors that was submitted on your behalf to the BOE. Were you guys fined for this?
Letter.
The errors are problems with uploading files to the Board of Elections server as opposed to mathematical errors, or our not disclosing pertinent information.
As you saw in the letter, upon realizing that the Board of Election's server wasn't accepting the file, I emailed it to a BOE manager prior to the deadline. So it's a matter of whether the state received the file on time, or whether they received it in the correct box on time. It could be seen as a "glass half full/ half empty scenario."
We have heard nothing from them so far. The letter is on file as a pre-response if they want us to file an appeal.
Fair enough, Sebastian. I know you tried. Lot's better than most people who have worked or volunteered under the almighty political fund-raiser of the 49th ward.
Again, thanks for the update. Don't be shy. Stop by the 'Broken Heart' and criticize or correct me anytime.
"The errors are problems with uploading files to the Board of Elections server ... "
what a crock of shit
campaign committees are responsible for their data on the BOE website, not the Board
if there are errors in your data, re-upload asshole, and replace the incorrect data
blame to computer
Park bathrooms- I think it's gay sex!
Alderman Joe Moore chose Honeymoon.com, a Minnesota company? What a putz! Do a Google search for "travel agents 60626" and you'll find a bunch near Rogers Park, not to mention many many more in Chicago. Sure, he's got a right to spend his money where he wants to, but how about putting his money where his mouth is for a change?
It's a Rogers Park issue, Tom Mannis. None of your business.
My doppelganger is posting and with a great question. I only find a rather luxe UK travel site.
As to the expense error, it happens. In the mad run up to the primary last year, I failed to file A1s for four or five contributions. They were reported on the subsequent D2 but still, it was a mistake and we didn't even know we made it until the ISBE told us.
Joe has not helped himself on too many occasions and he's given the blogosphere material too ripe not to cover, true. But this one? It looks like a funny mistake. Nonetheless, Craig has my regards for calling it out and then calling it back. And Sebastian? Nicely engaged, sir. ;-))
"wonder if he met Barb on eharmony"
I have no problem with calling the Alderman out on public issues and freely do so myself. His personal life, however is another story and should be left out of your remarks. That's just plain nasty Craig.
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