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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Where are all the fiscal conservatives?
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/09/26/tom-price-private-jets-243176
[quote]Richard Painter, who served as top ethics officer for President George W. Bush, questioned why Price needed to travel on Friday afternoon to St. Simons Island when his speech wasn’t until Sunday.

“One night is appropriate for a speech in Georgia, not two nights,” Painter said, given that Price was traveling around the East Coast.

The Nashville trip offered even more commercial options. On June 6, Price took a Learjet 55 — a $17,760 round-trip flight, according to a federal contract — that departed from Washington Dulles International Airport at 9:12 a.m. ET and touched down in Nashville at 9:44 a.m. CT.

Two commercial flights that morning followed similar itineraries. An American Airlines plane departed Reagan National Airport at 9:05 a.m. ET and landed in Nashville at 9:39 a.m. CT. A Southwest Airlines flight left Baltimore-Washington International at 9:18 a.m. ET and arrived in Nashville at 9:54 a.m. CT.

Commercial airline tickets with government discounts would have cost between $102 and $333 per person round-trip between the two cities, according to the U.S. General Services Administration.
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That article is unbelievable.

[quote]“In Nashville, Price had lunch with his son, Robert Price, who is a musician in Nashville. It occurred during a nearly three-hour block of Price’s schedule between when Price departed the Dispensary of Hope around 11:30 a.m. CT — “He had to leave for the rest of his Nashville meetings,” said a staff member at the dispensary — and his arrival at the health care summit around 2:15 p.m. CT.

Painter said Price’s trip to Nashville raised multiple ethical concerns. Despite spending nearly $18,000 on a Learjet, Price spent just five-and-a-half hours in the city and with only two official visits on his calendar — an hourlong tour of the dispensary and a 20-minute speech — that bookended his lunch with his son.

“If [Price] flew out there commercial and he had a lunch with his son, no one would bat an eyelid,” Painter said. “But he’s combining all these different ways of stretching it,” Painter added, listing off the expensive charter flight, Price’s personal lunch and choosing to make a speech to a little-known group run by a prominent Republican.

“They’re playing games with the rules,” Painter said.[/quote]
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