[Rhodes22-list] Palin stylist draws higher pay than policy adviser

[Lowe, Rob]

Is this what you would call style over substance? - rob

 

 

By JIM KUHNHENN

The Associated Press 
Friday, October 24, 2008; 3:57 PM 

WASHINGTON -- An acclaimed celebrity makeup artist for Republican vice
presidential candidate Sarah Palin collected more money from John McCain
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campaign than his foreign policy adviser. Amy Strozzi, who works on the
reality show "So You Think You Can Dance" and has been Palin's traveling
stylist, was paid $22,800, according to campaign finance reports for the
first two weeks in October. In contrast, McCain's foreign policy
adviser, Randy Scheunemann, was paid $12,500, the report showed. 

McCain's campaign said the payment covered a portion of her work in
September and a portion of October. An earlier campaign finance report
showed Strozzi was paid $13,200 for a portion of September. 

In recent days, McCain and his running mate have tried to douse a furor
over how their side spent their money. The Republican National Committee
came under scrutiny after the party committee reported earlier this week
that it had spent about $150,000 in September on wardrobe and cosmetics
after Palin joined the GOP ticket. 

In an interview with the Chicago Tribune and Fox News on Thursday, Palin
said the clothes bought for the Republican National Convention were not
worth $150,000 and said most have not left her campaign plane. She also
said the family shops frugally. 

"Those clothes are not my property. We had three days of using clothes
that the RNC purchased," Palin told Fox News in an interview that aired
Thursday night. 

There was no evidence of additional clothing purchases in the most
recent reports.