who saw the segment on 20/20 HLS Hawaiian conference Party on taxpayers $$

[ElsewheresDaughter]

in Hawaii at tax payers expense ...the hola dancers and entertainment alone cost $500,000 it was disgusting and had shades of that Tyco bastards birthday party for his wife :puke:

abcnews.go.com/2020/ - 36k - Dec 16, 2004

Ridge billed taxpayers for hours sitting around the pool as "meetings" because he was talking to other HLS people

the story has been purged from abc site i can't find it anywhere i link to

[Ilsa]

1. Great. The conferences I have to attend for my nursing CEU's

(if I choose not to do correspondence courses) are held in hotel ballrooms with no windows and usually one of us getting up to yell at the staff for playing really loud music while they bus tables in an adjoining ballroom. And nurses actually have to learn updates and do shit to help people, versus this bucket of pus-sucking bureaucrats lying around luxury pools feeding on six-figure incomes at the public trough.

[Smarmie Doofus]

2. I didn't see the segment but...

given the amount of deliberation Bush et al. devoted to the Kerrik nomination to succeed Ridge ( i.e. absoulutely no consideration at all) it does not surprise that the Ridge tenure was likely loaded with abuses and corruption.

All of which, at least til 'now, anyway, dutifully covered-up by the infotainment media "news" outlets.

[UTUSN]

3. Goes to Show, the Job DID Fit KERIK's Qualifications After All n/t