hotel bills

Living large on the campaign trail

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008

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Obama likes it cushy. What? According to the LA Times’ Travel Blog, the Chicago dreamboat’s campaign has spent almost $300,000 more on luxury hotels than then Hill-Hills and almost $500,000 more than the McCainites. What’s going on Chi-Town? The Holiday Inn Express website’s “smart meter” calculates the amount of money each candidate would’ve saved if they had stayed at a sensible Holiday Inn instead of, say, at a blingy upscale suite with “courtesy” bouteilles de champagne. Peep the numbers copied from the Times Travel Blog after the jump.

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