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LINCOLN, Neb. -- The Lincoln Mayor's Office said it wants someone to pick up the $31,900 tab left over from Vice President Dick Cheney's visit to the capital city last week.
Mayor Coleen Seng's chief of staff, Mark Bowen, said the office plans to ask for reimbursement as soon as it knows where to send the bill.
Cheney was in town Friday to campaign for Jeff Fortenberry, who is running for Congress. Cheney spent part of his boyhood in Lincoln, and also visited with some people from his past while he was in town.
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I looked this up because I heard on the local televised report that the Nebraska Republican party is calling this "partisan politics at it's worst." I'm sorry. I guess that I just don't see it that way. Why should the City of Lincoln pay almost $32,000, because Cheney wanted to do some stumping for the party, and go visit the spot where he skinned his knee riding his velocipede about a hundred years ago?
I leave it up to y'all. (Ya like that y'all? I'm from the Northeast, y'know.
) Who should get the bill?
*edit* By the way. I hold no illusion that this is an isolated case involving Lincoln and Nebraska. It is a very small slice of a very large pie. It happens all over. This one just caught my attention.