Obey's Junkets
Dave Obey has taken nearly $79,000 worth of vacations since January of 2000.
We've talked about it before, but we wanted to provide a little more in depth look, plus some visual assistance. We'll start with his latest trip this February to Jaimaica. While we were cold here in Northwest Wisconsin, Obey was taking a week's vacation (all expenses paid) in Jaimaica. The tab - $5,854.
Jamaica (February 2006)
Also, learn more about the Aspen Institute, who pays for these trips, in this post. Aspen is made up of big corporations and other special interests.
In the first 5 months of 2000 alone, Obey took 24 days worth of all expenses paid vacations to
Naples, Florida - January 2000
Puerto Rico - February 2000
Grand Cayman - April 2000
Vancouver, Canada - May 2000
The bill for these four trips was nearly $22,000. (do you spend $22,000 for nearly a months worth of vacations every year?)
Here are some other highlights:
Florence Italy - $9,745.60
Grand Cayman (again) - $5,457.60
Punta Mita, Mexico - $7,766.27
Jamaica (again) - $5,499.40
Puerto Rico (again)/Bahamas - $6,976.00
Venice, Italy/Paris, France - $6,961.00
Dave Obey has averaged at least 2 all expenses paid vacations around the world the past 6 years. The average cost is around $6,500 to take his wife to exotic locations on someone else's credit card.
So, shed that coat Dave, we're sure you'll be off to another exciting destination real soon.
We've talked about it before, but we wanted to provide a little more in depth look, plus some visual assistance. We'll start with his latest trip this February to Jaimaica. While we were cold here in Northwest Wisconsin, Obey was taking a week's vacation (all expenses paid) in Jaimaica. The tab - $5,854.
Jamaica (February 2006)
Also, learn more about the Aspen Institute, who pays for these trips, in this post. Aspen is made up of big corporations and other special interests.
In the first 5 months of 2000 alone, Obey took 24 days worth of all expenses paid vacations to
Naples, Florida - January 2000
Puerto Rico - February 2000
Grand Cayman - April 2000
Vancouver, Canada - May 2000
The bill for these four trips was nearly $22,000. (do you spend $22,000 for nearly a months worth of vacations every year?)
Here are some other highlights:
Florence Italy - $9,745.60
Grand Cayman (again) - $5,457.60
Punta Mita, Mexico - $7,766.27
Jamaica (again) - $5,499.40
Puerto Rico (again)/Bahamas - $6,976.00
Venice, Italy/Paris, France - $6,961.00
Dave Obey has averaged at least 2 all expenses paid vacations around the world the past 6 years. The average cost is around $6,500 to take his wife to exotic locations on someone else's credit card.
So, shed that coat Dave, we're sure you'll be off to another exciting destination real soon.
posted by ObeyOut2006 at 1:40 PM
4 Comments:
Nice pictures, looks like the postcards Obey would have sent.
Aw, cut Obey some slack, people. Where else is he going to wear his Congressional Seal speedos?
I'm guess I'm still trying to read between the lines: Where's the issue?
You failed to mention that Cong. Obey takes it upon himself to visit numerous undesirable and frankly dangerous places throughout the year including various locations in the middle east, in which he must leave behind his wife and family behind. Why does he do it you ask? Because he has a sincere commitment to understand the issues that he passes legislation on. Regardless of whether or not you took these govn't paid trips into consideration while writing this article is not important to me. Whats important to me is that he keeps sacrificing his time to better understand certain critical areas of the world. I firmly believe that congress would be a better place if more congressmen traveled to significant areas of the world as much as Dave Obey.
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