Hey, at least she didn't drive a car through their window.
And once you finish reading the article, feel free to call the Bush-Cheney campaign headquarters and ask them why they don't pay their debts: 703.647.2700. You might want to also mention that other bill the president doesn't seem intent on paying - it's called the national debt.
From the Washington Blade:
Managers and employees of the trendy D.C. nightspot Helix lounge, are feeling a hangover from a Bush-Cheney campaign party held there on July 15, after its gay hosts reportedly walked out on their tab. The “Party for the President” — a grassroots initiative of the Bush-Cheney ‘04 campaign to raise money and enlist supporters — held by Armando Cortinez and his partner, Tom Duschney, drew only about 15 patrons. But the number still qualified partygoers to participate in a nationwide conference call with First Lady Laura Bush for which Cortinez reserved a conference room.
After sipping $7 Bushtinis in the front bar adorned with Bush-Cheney signs, partygoers adjourned to the room to listen to the First Lady. As the event concluded, manager Kobie Ali said, the staff presented the couple with a $205 bill. Duschney and Cortinez disappeared after they told Ali they needed to get their checkbook, he claimed.
“I was floored. I couldn’t believe it,” Ali said. “Then, when I tried to run the credit card they had used for deposit, it was declined.” Duschney, a contractor for that National Institutes of Health, told the Hill newspaper that the couple disputed the room-rental fee. He claimed the staff wanted to besmirch the couple over what some gay people see as hypocritical political beliefs. A hotel representative said attempts to contact the couple have risen to the double digits. The Helix has yet to receive an explanation, the source said. “We’re not going to discriminate on the basis of politics, but the next week we hosted a fund-raiser for John Kerry that went off without a hitch,” the representative said.
