Earlier this week, Mike Pence hosted a fundraiser for the Republican Governors Association at the gay-owned Caribou Club in Aspen, Colorado. Entry to the event was $35,000 per couple and, in the end, the fundraiser pulled in a total of $700,000.
Now, the local sheriff’s department says Pence and his team have stiffed them on the $24,000 security bill.
“We had a SWAT team from Garfield County here that I want to see get reimbursed,” Sheriff Joe DiSalvo says. “We had Carbondale officers here that I want to see get reimbursed. They don’t have this kind of money. I don’t have this kind of money.”
Pence, who was in town for less than 24 hours, required 64 police officers, who worked a total of 20 hours each, totaling 519 hours.
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“Out of those 64, 14 were state troopers, and we don’t have a responsibility to pay them,” DiSalvo explains. “But the 50 other cops that were here are all on the county dime.”
Adding insult to injury, DiSalvo says his calls to Pence’s senior political adviser Marty Obst have gone totally ignored.
“When I first talked to [Obst] before the visit, he was all smiles and grins,” DiSalvo says. “But I know how this works: They put you on hold until they leave and then they don’t talk to you again.”
“He has not returned a single phone call in two days.”
Requiring taxpayers to foot the security bill for private campaign events is not standard protocol and DiSalvo says the whole situation has been very “disappointing.”
“I guess the whole thing is generally just somewhat disappointing to me,” he laments. “You raise $700,000 in an hour, you should be able to pitch in to support the community that made you feel welcome.”
Related: Why is this gay-owned club hosting a Mike Pence fundraiser?
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Kangol2
I guess the sheriff’s department can add it to the tab of the millions of dollars Drumpf owes the government of DC for his various stunts, including his 4th of July debacle, and the $130 MILLION and counting that we taxpayers have to fork over because all he does is golf, when he’s not throwing the US government into total disarray, coddling Putin and Kim Jong Un, and watching FoxNews!
EMJ1979
Please, Lord, I beg you, don’t let us Democrats impeach Donald Trump and please don’t let him have a heart attack. I want him healthy for the 2020 election so we can defeat him… and Mike “Probably Having A Closeted Gay Affair” Pence.
Ronbo
Sorry… the DNC already selected the loser and it’s the same Biden who came in 2nd the last three times he ran.
EMJ1979
Ronbo, or Cambridge Analytica, or Trolling 58-year-old Guy, or whatever you are, no matter what you say or how you say it, I voted blue in 2018 and I will vote blue in 2020.
Gandalf The Grey
Those Judases Had It Coming!
Gandalf The Grey
Biden is at the bottom of the Polls. The DNC will find it hard to pull another theft of the primary as it is absolutely unbelievable that Biden would win!
Kangol2
I’m not a Biden fan or supporter and I’m not sure what the DNC will or won’t do, but he’s atop today’s FoxNews poll, and beating Drumpf in 3/4ths of the states, by sizable margins, including the 3 that pushed Drumpf over the electoral college line, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania. He’s also beating Drumpf head-to-head in Texas and several other surprising other states, which is kind of remarkable.
Bubbleandsqueal
DiSalvo and his team will still vote for Trump in 2020. No matter what.
boymikefl
Just curious, “Did the devil say that Mexico’s check is in the mail?” Or maybe, “Daddy’s paying.”
Aires the Ram
Remember this? “Hillary Clinton is projected to get 100 million votes!” Remember?????
Naw, I didn’t think you did. How convenient.
porque_loco
Remember this? “Mexico is gonna pay for the wall!” Remember?????
Naw, I didn’t think you did. How convenient.
porque_loco
Remember this? “As President, I’ll be too busy working to play golf!” Remember?????
Naw, I didn’t think you did. How convenient.
IanHunter
She would have if Russia didn’t steal them for their puppet.
toddlicious
Imagine that. That’s what you get Aspen for allowing this piece of shit in our state to begin with. This isn’t the first time we’ve heard about the republicans stiffing people who work their events. This is exactly who the Republican Party, Donald dump and mike pence are. VOTE THEM OUT!
Dwight
Seems Pence has learned from Donald how to run out on your bills and not pay your contractors.
charlietex
This administration is nothing but grifters.
Aires the Ram
Mexico is going to pay for the wall. 6,000 Ford jobs in Mexico re-patriating to the USA.