High luxury portaloos for Clinton wedding
The New York Times reports that all suppliers to the Chelsea Clinton wedding have signed confidentiality agreements. So, despite tramping around all the shops and businesses in Rhinebeck, New Jersey (close to the location of the wedding), the Times’ intrepid reporters couldn’t get a squeak out of any of those business owners who are supplying anything to the wedding.
But that hasn’t stopped celebrity chin-waggers like those on Fox 5, a local New York station (which, from my viewing seems quite a good station, with none of the dodginess of its more famous sister station, Fox News) from breathlessly putting figures on some of the items involved:
- $200 for each place setting. Yes – place setting.
- $500,000 for the flowers.
- $600,000 for the “tents” (Marquees)
- $15,000 for the Portaloos
…And apparently the whole shebang is costing over £3 million or $4.6 million.
It was the portaloos that particularly caught my attention. They are not just any old portaloos. FameCrawler describes them very well:
TweetThe super fancy schmancy porta-potties! When having such a big event at a place with limited loos, bringing in extra toilets is a necessity. And you wouldn’t want Oprah having to hold her nose while climbing into one of the smelly classic plastic boxes. Instead the family is reportedly renting several of these very high end, top of the line portable toilets, featuring flushing porcelin toliets and urinals, china sinks with both cold and hot running water. They also have heating and cooling systems, faux marble walls and a stereo sound system. How much do these cost to rent? TMZ estimated it at about 15 grand. And coincidentally, you can rent these from Dave’s Septic Service where it’s aptly named the Presidential Series Luxury Restroom Trailer. Presidential indeed!
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Burbler-in-chief
The Clinton’s are America’s Blairs: greedy, grasping, hypocritical champagne socialists.
Isn’t much of the of the current banking crisis down to Pres Clinton too? Wasn’t he the one who set the whole Freddie Mac & Fanny Mae nightmare in motion by introducing legislation which forced US banks to saddle the poorest in America with unsustainable home loans any fool knew they could never afford to repay? Many of the poorest lost their homes as a result and the banking sector went into meltdown.
Wasn’t it Clinton too who put wide boy Rahm Emannuel (of “Don’t let a good crisis go to waste” fame) and others like him, with no experience of banking whatsoever, as political apppointees onto the board of Freddie Mac, where they negligently looked the other way and kept pumping out unrepayabe loans until US banks went into meltdown?
The meltdown clearly didn’t affect the Clintons’ finances.