President-elect Trump’s union-backed labor secretary choose apparently has C-suite-level tastes.
Oregon Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer’s marketing campaign burned tens of 1000’s of {dollars} throughout her doomed congressional re-election bid on lavish bills resembling ritzy resort stays and limo providers, federal data present.
Between February 2023 and October 2024, the 56-year-old Republican pol’s group burned over $56,000 on resort charges, lots of which have been nicely past her district within the Beaver State and Washington DC, in line with Federal Election Fee knowledge reviewed by The Publish.
In mid-March, Chavez-DeRemer’s marketing campaign dropped $6,290 on the five-star Phoenician Resort in Scottsdale, Ariz., the place company can take a dip right into a three-level pool with Camelback Mountain within the backdrop.
In June and July, Chavez-DeRemer’s group spent over $5,052 on the Potawatomi On line casino Lodge in Milwaukee, together with $2,072 at a Hilton resort in Wisconsin’s capital. In October 2023, her marketing campaign dropped $859 at a Miami Ritz-Carlton resort.
The labor-loving cupboard nod’s group additionally managed to blow no less than $4,345 on limo and chauffeur providers throughout her closely-watched race, which she narrowly misplaced by below three factors to Democrat Janelle Bynum on Nov. 5.
One of many firms, Snow Nation Limousine in Park Metropolis, Utah, acquired a complete of $731.50 from the marketing campaign in mid-December 2023 — roughly the identical time that Chavez-DeRemer’s group forked over $1,512 to the over-the-top, ski-in, ski-out St. Regis Deer Valley resort, the American Journal Information first reported.
“All this wasteful spending, boy is she ready for the Department of Labor,” quipped one GOP insider to The Publish.
“This nomination…tests the theory that only [former DOJ pick] Matt Gaetz is so bad he can’t be confirmed.”
Chavez-DeRemer, who was considered one of three Home Republicans to co-sponsor the union-backed PRO Act, acquired a flurry of criticism from the conservative stalwarts tearing into her as a “Republican in name only” shortly after Trump introduced her cupboard nod.
The invoice, which didn’t move the Home throughout Chavez-DeRemer’s transient time period, would have successfully banned right-to-work legal guidelines in over two dozen states that permit staff to decide of paying union dues, amongst different labor-friendly reforms.
The controversial cupboard choose, who additionally supported laws offering unlawful immigrants paths to citizenship and co-sponsored a invoice to make it simpler for public sector staff to unionize, allegedly nabbed her nomination because of Teamster union president Sean O’Brien, a Republican insider beforehand instructed The Publish.
This week, the Oregon Republican was amongst a number of Trump cupboard appointees who acquired bomb threats focusing on their houses, a transfer she slammed as an “unacceptable way to express opposition.”
A spokesperson for Chavez-DeRemer did to not a request for remark.
