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| Retiring Dem Rep. Luis Gutierrez: Now we know why he's retiring |
| 2017-12-08 |
| [Free Beacon] Democratic Rep. Luis Gutierrez (Ill.), who announced last week that he will not seek reelection after spending 24 years in the U.S. House of Representatives, will no longer be able to pay his wife hundreds of thousands of dollars from campaign funds once he officially departs from Congress. Soraida Gutierrez, his wife, has collected more than $430,000 from Gutierrez for Congress, Luis's campaign committee, since 2010. Soraida is the top recipient of expenditures this year. Soraida, who was a registered lobbyist in Illinois prior to appearing on the campaign's payroll, has been listed as the campaign's office manager, fundraiser, and treasurer for the past seven years. Gutierrez's campaign committee has reported $77,838.69 in operating expenditures from the beginning of January to the end of September. Soraida has received seven checks for $6,000 each‐or $42,000 total‐during this time, meaning that she has collected more than half of his campaign's disbursements. The second largest expenditure from Gutierrez's campaign this year is a $22,000 donation to the Puerto Rican Relief Fund, which is not included in the committee's operating expenditures total, but is rather marked under other disbursements. Gutierrez has said he is leaving Washington to focus on the rebuilding efforts in Puerto Rico, although some have speculated that the abrupt retirement raises questions about his motives and that he has made a "grand inside play," Politico reported. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #9 Fat & hairy with a face that looks like a frying pan? Where do I sign up? Kissinger wasn't particularly photogenic, but apparently quite a success with the ladies. Of course, unlike Weinstein, he was single, charming and presumably not a presumptuous flasher and groper who counted on his money and power to land a one-night stand every night of the week: Even in his youth Kissinger didn’t quite fit the bill of a matinee idol, but he’s always been a hit with the ladies. A 1972 poll of Playboy bunnies selected Kissinger as the man with whom Hef’s ladies would most like to go out on a date. He also had a string of celebrity girlfriends in his younger days, including Diane Sawyer, Candice Bergen, Jill St. John, Shirley Maclaine, and Liv Ullman, who called Kissinger, “the most interesting man I have ever met.” Kissinger’s swinging bachelor days are long gone, though. In 1974 he married philanthropist Nancy Maginnes, a union that seemed at one point seemed so improbable that just a year earlier Nancy had called speculation that she and Kissinger would marry “outrageous.” |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2017-12-08 20:46 |
| #8 No question he could have attracted plenty of good-looking women without coercion. Fat & hairy with a face that looks like a frying pan? Where do I sign up? |
| Posted by: Raj 2017-12-08 15:08 |
| #7 Imagine my surprise that a woman married this pendejo chihuahua It's an old saw that women are attracted to fame, money and power, whereas men are attracted to looks. Weinstein merely went overboard with his attempt to bed a new woman every night. No question he could have attracted plenty of good-looking women without coercion. The problem is that nobody (including good-looking A-list stars like Charlie Sheen and Ashton Kutcher) can get a different attractive woman to do one-nighters with him every night of the week. Women want, if possible, a lifetime supply of that fame, money and power. One-nighters don't do the trick. |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2017-12-08 13:25 |
| #6 He is just chasing the billions being sent to Puerto Rico. That is a big pie to slice and steal. |
| Posted by: airandee 2017-12-08 12:51 |
| #5 The Donk Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. money scam. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2017-12-08 09:58 |
| #4 Yes, normalized procedure is that all campaign money becomes personal money upon retirement. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2017-12-08 09:16 |
| #3 Imagine my surprise that a woman married this pendejo chihuahua |
| Posted by: Frank G 2017-12-08 09:08 |
| #2 It is, but generally they are more clever in hiding the money trail. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2017-12-08 09:06 |
| #1 Really, I thought this kind of thing was a common practice for Representatives - at least the D ones? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2017-12-08 05:40 |