How else to explain this entry among the 2,112 itemized disbursements in the Republican National Committee's most recent monthly report to the Federal Elections Commission:
OLYMPIC NEWS BALTIMORE MD 04/23/2009 MEALS $3.99
So some RNC staffer, or maybe Michael Steele himself, picked up a bag of pretzels or something at one of those news & magazine stores at Baltimore Washington International Airport and got reimbursed.
Soon enough it shows up on the RNC's monthly fundraising and spending disclosure as a payment to Olympic News, which Daily Kos readers know is owned by Michael Steele's confidant and close friend, Sandy Roberts, the same friend to whom he and former Maryland Gov. Bob Ehrlich paid $417,000 in the final days of their 2006 campaign from 4 different state and federal campaign accounts they controlled, as WBAL TV Baltimore's Jayne Miller reported.
Maybe this is just the start. Now that Michael Steele has control of the RNC checkbook, maybe he will pay his pal's newspaper stand another $417,000, one bag of pretzels at a time, over the next 2 years.
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