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TexasTowelie

(116,799 posts)
Sun Nov 1, 2020, 08:15 PM Nov 2020

Van Drew spent almost $30k on Washington eateries, sometimes on days he skipped COVID meetings

After less than two years in Congress, Rep. Jeff Van Drew developed a penchant for fine dining at some of Washington’s swankiest steakhouses, even on days when he had missed House committee meetings.

Fortunately for the retired dentist from a working class South Jersey district, he didn’t have to pick up the tab himself.

During his first term in Congress, Van Drew used his re-election campaign account to pick up nearly $30,000 worth of meals and beverages, according to reports filed with the Federal Election Commission.

More than 77% of that was spent at two upscale steakhouses where the freshman Democrat-turned-Republican has seemingly become a regular: Prime Rib, where waiters wear tuxedos and walk on a legendary leopard skin carpet; and at the Steakhouse Del Frisco, where a bone-in Strip Steak goes for $68.

Read more: https://newjerseyglobe.com/congress/van-drew-spent-almost-30k-on-washington-eateries-sometimes-on-days-he-skipped-covid-meetings/

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Van Drew spent almost $30k on Washington eateries, sometimes on days he skipped COVID meetings (Original Post) TexasTowelie Nov 2020 OP
Has he seen the miles long food lines during the pandemic? sheshe2 Nov 2020 #1
He'll go down with the Trumptanic Zambero Nov 2020 #2
Dumb and greedy.. isn't that against the law? Cha Nov 2020 #3

sheshe2

(87,498 posts)
1. Has he seen the miles long food lines during the pandemic?
Sun Nov 1, 2020, 08:21 PM
Nov 2020

Does he care? Silly question, of course he does not.

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