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Chris Christie’s Handy-Dandy Travel Guide

Published on: 15th October, 2009

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Much has been made recently about New Jersey’s Republican gubernatorial candidate Chris Christie living large on the government’s dime:

Newly released travel records show that Chris Christie occasionally billed taxpayers more than $400 a night for stays in luxury hotels and exceeded the government’s hotel allowance on 14 of 16 business trips he took in 2008.

But to be fair, it should be pointed out that not all of them were luxury hotels and sometimes Christie had a completely valid reason for exceeding his hotel allowance:

On Oct. 16, 2008, Christie requested $109 to stay at the Hampton Inn in Warsaw, IN (pop. 12,500). The rate was over the government limit. “Because of the small size of the town,” Christie wrote in his memo requesting the funds, “there is limited lodging available.”

And as a look at the availability and rates of hotels in Warsaw, Indiana, clearly shows:  

Oh. Never mind.

Travel Writer Flips Bird to Most of U.S.A.

Published on: 22nd August, 2009

Travel Writer Flips Bird to Most of U.S.A.  | read this item

Travel writer Arthur Frommer recently said that he will never visit any place in Arizona again. Is it because he was badly served at a Denny’s in Flagstaff? Maybe he didn’t like the turn down service at the Motel Six…