The Little Brown Reader

The LNC Gravy Train

The LNC Gravy Train

by George Squyres

Excerpt:

The difference is that Congress actually does ride on that gravy train and the LNC does not. I explained that he was mistaken in his understanding of how expenses at the LNC worked, and that I paid all my expenses out of my own pocket, and that there was no reimbursement by the national office or the party for the expenses incurred by LNC members going to the quarterly meetings. Zip! Nada! It costs me about $2500 a year, not including meals at a restaurant, to go to the four quarterly LNC meetings around the country, and it comes out of my own pocket. It is one of the donations that I make to the LP along with the time I spend. That time spent in my shop would earn me about $1500 per weekend, or about $6000 annually.