Dry Sister

How is Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick still in office? Strippers at the the official residence of the mayor—the city-owned Manoogian Mansion, the city paid for a lease for a Lincon Navigator for Kwame's family, used $8,600 from his secret Kilpatrick Civic Fund to take his wife, three sons and babysitter on a week long vacation to a five-star California resort, the La Costa Resort and Spa while the funds were for education and economic improvement, Kilpatrick was sued by two ex-members of his bodyguard staff for fireing them for whislteblowing and were awarded $6.5 million in damages, Kilpatrick and his then chief of staff Christine Beatty lied about the sexual nature of their relationship and their involvement in the firing of Deputy Police Chief Gary Brown, There was also evidence that Kilpatrick and Beatty used city funds to arrange romantic getaways. Beatty resigned amid allegations that she and the mayor lied under oath about an affair. After all this, how is he not impeached or in jail? This is not rethorical.

If you thought $400 haircuts were bad what do you think about this? Rudy Giuliani likes to travel in style. That's what can be deduced by looking through Giuliani's campaign spending report, which shows the former New York mayor has routinely stayed in posh hotels while on the road, and seems to lack confidence in the quality of commercial air carriers. $2,010 at the Greenbrier Hotel in West Virginia $4,034 at La Costa Resort and Spa in Carlsbad, Calif., or $5,370 at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco. He also spent more than $565,000 reimbursing various corporate supporters for private jet travel. The biggest chunk of those flights came via Elliott Asset Management, a New York hedge fund known by some as a "vulture fund," so-named because they buy debt cheaply from cash-starved countries, and then sue them for the full repayment. The head of the firm, Paul Singer, is in charge of Northeastern fundraising for Giuliani. Giuliani spent another $800,000 on charter jet travel. http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2007/10/15/giulianis_spends_big_bucks_for.html

By law can I get cash back from a La Costa Spa&Resort gift card ?