Here’s a thrilling item from 2008 – somebody called Mario Correa pays a visit to Surry* Hill, the 18,000 square foot house of DC “Superlobbyists” Edwina and Ed Rogers. Inside the palatial residence with hot and cold running champagne, Edwina Rogers shows the host how she wraps speaker gifts for a conference she’s having: she wraps them in money. Isn’t that fun and exciting? Oh yes it’s very fun and exciting.
*No, I don’t know why they misspell Surrey.
She could have wrapped the presents a little differently and not cut through the bills. And still made them look good, I mean. And she doesn’t seem to grasp that a half bill is useless.
Geeze, what a kick in the face to all the people who could use a dollar. Such contempt. And that is a lobbyist, a bribe giver to our elected officials. Such should not be in this country.
In the second one, I could see my old apartment building.
Sickening.
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Menyambal @ 1: Actually, I think she does grasp that the money is useless cut up. It’s just that she’s viewing it as already spent; she purchased wrapping paper and is using it as such and it’s just as much money spent as with any other fancy wrapping paper. Which does make sense, in my opinion; the problem is that it looks even more wasteful to those without much money.
18,000 square foot house?
Yeah, you are right. I mis-stated something about her saying “seven and a half” as if the half bills were still useful. I dunno what I mean any more.
Each sheet of 32 bills cost her $61, down at the BEP. For what that’s worth.
Well, that’s the cost at the BEP website store.
Digby at Hullabaloo wrote in 2006 about the Rogerses at Surry Hill and other members of the Republican elite who reside in McLean, VA (where property is more valuable than in Malibu), riffing off a long article from The New Republic by Michael Crowley dated September 11, 2006 (which I had to search for because TNR’s changed their indexing permalink configuration so that Digby’s original link no longer works) – GOPtopia.
I wish Digby had been right about this community of sanctimonious plundering phonies getting broken up due to outraged fallout from the GFC, but they still influence enough votes in Congress and Senate to keep on stacking the Supreme Court and other institutions, so they’re still there.
I’ve just this second started reading that, linked to it by a Facebook friend. It’s unbelievable.
The Republican ideological elite haven’t learnt anything about the foreseeable disasters that will come with more and more deregulation, either. From Digby today: Sick and tired of being tired – America’s culture of overwork and how it’s costing lives.
This is disgusting.
She has never needed to use actual dollars to buy stuff like, say, food.
So, I guess it’s easy to view them as decorations.
Seems rather sybaritic. As in Sybaris, a Greek colony in southern Italy from about 2700 – 2500 years ago that was known for its inhabitants’ extravagant luxury.