This contains the funniest bit of info regarding some of the mysterious receipts recorded by the Federal Election Commission for the Palin makeover: a $4,902.45 charge at Atelier New York, which “carries expensive cut-up T-shirts and tricky suits from avant-garde designers, like Raf Simons, Yohji Yamamoto and Ann Demeulemeester, none of whom typically create beltway-appropriate attire.”
However, calls by the NYT to the store owner to verify this purchase produced only confusion. There were no records of purchases totalling that amount; furthermore, the store’s clientele is so small and specialized, the owner of the store pretty much knows who most of his customers are. Could be a mistake, but I’d like to imagine that there’s some sneaky RNC aide buying stuff for a beau.
And anyway, if a campaign worker is running around using a Blackberry to read off a credit card number to make purchases, um, wouldn’t something like that be pretty easy to pass around? I’m sure we’ll read some fascinating investigative report with the paper trail soon enough. Whatever.
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