Pelosi Spends $16,000 on Flowers


	Pelosi Spends $16,000 on Flowers

dl211

12-13-2007 11:23 AM

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dl211 says:

More appropriate title would be The People spent $16,000 on flowers for Pelosi.

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/6af5bb9d-6f39-4ab8-826c-3623e5e392b2/ADA6FCB8-760E-4FC9-A755-5D84D7AEA22B/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://poligazette.com/2007/12/13/pelosi-spends-16000-on-flowers/" href="http://poligazette.com/2007/12/13/pelosi-spends-16000-on-flowers/" style="font-size: 11px;">poligazette.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://poligazette.com/2007/12/13/pelosi-spends-16000-on-flowers/"><H2><A href="http://poligazette.com/2007/12/13/pelosi-spends-16000-on-flowers/" rel="bookmark">Pelosi Spends $16,000 on Flowers</A></H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://poligazette.com/2007/12/13/pelosi-spends-16000-on-flowers/"><P>House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has spent $16,000 on flowers since taking office, one reason why she spent 63 percent more in her high-profile inaugural year than her low-key predecessor did last year.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://poligazette.com/2007/12/13/pelosi-spends-16000-on-flowers/"><P>Pelosi (D-Calif.) spent a little more than $3 million in the first nine months of 2007, records show, compared to the $1.8 million Rep. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) spent during the same period in 2006.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://poligazette.com/2007/12/13/pelosi-spends-16000-on-flowers/"><P><EM>$16,000 on flowers?</EM> What did she buy? <A href="http://wwwwakeupamericans-spree.blogspot.com/2007/12/16k-worth-of-flowers-shame-on-nancy.html">An entire forest</A>?</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://poligazette.com/2007/12/13/pelosi-spends-16000-on-flowers/"><P>Sadly for Republicans, well for American taxpayers, Pelosi isn’t the only bigspender: “House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) has increased spending 23 percent above what Pelosi spent when she held the same job.”</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/ADA6FCB8-760E-4FC9-A755-5D84D7AEA22B/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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