from salon.com:
Mayor Michael Bloomberg hailed the Republican National Convention as an economic boon to the city, but it turned out to be a bust for the poor saps stuck serving the tight-fisted Bush girls. According to the New York Post’s Page Six, the debaucherous twins spent all night Wednesday getting trashed at the Manhattan club Avalon, and then stiffed the help. As the Post reports, “They [and their entourage of about 25] drank $4,500 dollars worth of drinks — bottles and bottles of vodka,’ says a club insider. ‘Then, having been comped all the alcohol, they left a $48 tip. We thought 1 per cent was kind of outrageous, considering they are the president’s daughters.'”
Leave aside what this says about the girls’ respect for working people. These kids and their friends swilled $180 worth of booze per person. A galloping sense of entitlement, apparently, isn’t the only thing that runs in the Bush family.
to juxtapose, here are some links to ther Kerry Children’s speeches at the DNC
vanessa – http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Politics/ap20040729_1908.html
alexandra – http://www.dems2004.org/site/apps/nl/content3.asp?c=luI2LaPYG&b=131063&ct=162157
so of course it’s gushing grandstanding about their dad, but the fact that they seem articulate, empassioned, capable says something that John Kerry as a man is maybe more like my father, or certainly more like my father than the man who shares his first name.
Do check out dontjustvote.org. They make an important but obvious point. But also remember things like the little story about the Bush children. Maybe not on policy issues, maybe not on voting records, but somewhere in this fucked-up election, I am finding subtle but compelling differences in the candidates that makes voting important to me.