Jeff Larson...responsible for Palin's $150 K wardrobe in 2008...named RNC Chief of Staff

[Amerigo Vespucci]

February 04, 2011 08:30 PM
Open Thread

By bluegal

http://crooksandliars.com/bluegal/open-thread-579



Grifty Reload McQuitter starring in The Devil Wears Prada. Inspired by finding out that Jeff Larson, the guy who charged over $150,000 for Sarah Palin's wardrobe in 2008, has just been named Chief of Staff for the Republican National Committee. How are we supposed to miss Michael Steele now?

Sarah Palin's Personal Shopper Heads to RNC

Feb 4 2011, 10:04 AM ET



Joshua Green - Joshua Green is a senior editor of The Atlantic and a weekly political columnist for the Boston Globe.

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/02/sarah-palins-personal-shopper-heads-to-rnc/70769/



Yesterday, the RNC made a Minnesota political consultant named Jeff Larson chief of staff. I predict the staff of the RNC will suddenly become really sharp dressers. That's because Larson was--as I wrote two years ago in this post--the guy who bought Sarah Palin $150,000 worth of designer clothes. From the piece:

Move over Carson Kressley. A new celebrity shopper has emerged!

The attention from Jeanne Cummings's much-talked-about Politico story has naturally focused on the $150,000 in luxury clothing purchased for Sarah Palin at Neiman Marcus, Sak's Fifth Avenue, and Barney's. What hasn't yet gotten any attention is who bought it for her. But buried in the same FEC disclosure form that revealed Palin's taste for the fine life is the name of the man who appears to have been her personal shopper: Jeff Larson.

[Turbineguy]

1. Somebody who will damage the GOP?

Good thinking!

[Cirque du So-What]

2. What you see as 'damage,' GOOPers see as 'free publicity'

After all, Crosshairs Palin's $150K wardrobe kept her in the limelight well past her expiration date...up to the current day. The sooner Democratic strategists recognize the fact that the very things which cause wailing & gnashing of teeth on our side are the very things which endear the practitioner to the microencephalics on their side.

[Turbineguy]

4. "....microencephalics...."

Good one!

:rofl:

[tanyev]

3. Project number one: Redecorate RNC offices.

Sure, Michael Steele spent $18,500 redecorating, but hey, that was two whole years ago!

[Amerigo Vespucci]

5. I worked for a company...briefly...that was addicted to "custom office furniture."

I was "supposedly" filling, as a contractor, in for a woman on maternity leave. Very soon in the game I realized she was going to stay out for the entire leave, collect her benefits, and not come back.

Anyway, the cubicles were all basic Herman Miller plug-and-play garbage, but the offices all had custom-built wood desks, workstations, bookcases, credenzas, etc.

When one of these office dwellers felt like treating himself / herself, you'd have to measure for what they wanted, and if they had any old furniture, it got shuttled off to a warehouse in Redwood City, sort of am old furniture graveyard. The managers would NEVER accept a "hand-me-down" from another manager...even if it's exactly what they needed. They'd find some way to move things around so the "hand-me-down" would no longer fit.

And every time a manager got something new, every other manager would come up with a "needs" list, because HE / SHE can't have a new bookcase if I don;t have a new bookcase.

Biggest group of spoiled children with money to burn that I've ever worked for. Seriously, this was a biotech company, so they all had degrees, but they were children. One of them wanted the office I worked in because it was a window office. There was no reason to move other than that window....they were already located with their direct reports, and to come over to my office would mean they;d be on the opposite side of the building. Fortunately I reported directly to a V.P., so I went in her office and got that little plan shut down immediately.