Yeah, doesn’t nearly rise to the eyebrow-raising level of the average Santos story, and surely wouldn’t stand out if one went digging into dining and catering budgets of other campaigns. The 26K was spent over 32 separate occasions. Alright well sure 26K buys a lot of rigatoni bolognese, but within realm of typical political campaign catering expenses — fundraisers, wine-and-dines with donors and endorsers, lunch meetings with staff, consultants, etc — it doesn’t buy much at all. It buys a little more if you do a lot of it at the same place, and if you’re running in New York, it’s probably wise to pick a New York family owned Italian restaurant, rather than a Chicago family owned Italian restaurant. 🤷
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Reply to comment by SP919212973 in George Santos' campaign spent more than $26,000 at an Italian restaurant in Queens. That's enough to buy 1,131 orders of the rigatoni bolognese. by MrKleen10
Yeah, doesn’t nearly rise to the eyebrow-raising level of the average Santos story, and surely wouldn’t stand out if one went digging into dining and catering budgets of other campaigns. The 26K was spent over 32 separate occasions. Alright well sure 26K buys a lot of rigatoni bolognese, but within realm of typical political campaign catering expenses — fundraisers, wine-and-dines with donors and endorsers, lunch meetings with staff, consultants, etc — it doesn’t buy much at all. It buys a little more if you do a lot of it at the same place, and if you’re running in New York, it’s probably wise to pick a New York family owned Italian restaurant, rather than a Chicago family owned Italian restaurant. 🤷