Key Player In GOP 'Bondage-Gate' Scandal Hired By Major Campaign

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Source: Huffington Post

The former director of the Republican National Committee's infamous Young Eagles program, Allison Meyers, has joined the campaign of West Virginia gubernatorial candidate Bill Maloney (R). According to disclosure forms Maloney released in late August, Meyers has been on the campaign's payroll as a fundraising consultant since May, earning $5,000 per month in June and July, and slightly less in May.

Meyers' new role comes a little more than a year after she made national headlines for spending nearly $2,000 at a lesbian bondage-themed club in Los Angeles. The evening was part of the RNC's Young Eagles initiative, designed to cultivate younger GOP donors, but the visit to the club was an impromptu afterparty with a number of the contributors. Meyers submitted a reimbursement form to the RNC for the tab, which was then disclosed in FEC filings.

The media quickly seized on the story, and the fallout for the RNC could have hardly come at a worse time: Then-chairman Michael Steele was already in hot water with party poobahs for spending too much money, and a general perception that the RNC wasn't working hard enough to win the 2010 midterm elections. Spending $2,000 at a club where topless women dance in cages only served to exacerbate all the criticism.

According to an internal memo, Meyers was fired for submitting a reimbursement form for "an activity that was not eligible for reimbursement." But insiders said there was more to it than that. Her dismissal -- and the subsequent dismantling of the Young Eagles program -- helped to quell some of Steele's most vocal critics at the time, and there were plenty of them, including Sarah Palin and Karl Rove.

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[No Elephants]

1. Steele was not in hot water for spending too much money. That was the excuse.

He was at the helm while Republicans went from sound defeats in 2006 and 2008 to historic victories in 2010. Steele had every right to expect praise and a handsome increase in compensation, not an ignominious defeat.

And one of the reasons the RNC seemed spent out was that big Republican names with great donor contacts, like Rove, started their own fundraising entities for Republicans to compete with Steele and siphon the money away from the RNC.

Draw whatever conclusions you wish.

[Hubert Flottz]

2. This entire state is a bondage bar...

We are all slaves to Big Coal!

[Hubert Flottz]

3. The Bondage Bar story hit the Charleston Gazette this morning.

Why do the dregs end up in West Virginia? I guess all the con artists in the GOP figure West Virginians are an easy mark.