Welcome to Air Pelosi, brought to you by the tax dollars you thought were paying for your Air Force
Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her staff have apparently gotten used to the notion that the US Air Force exists to fly them around at their whim:
Representatives for Judicial Watch, which obtained e-mails and other documents from a Freedom of Information request, said the correspondence shows Pelosi has abused the system in place to accommodate congressional leaders and treated the Air Force as her “personal airline.”
The e-mails showed repeated attempts by Pelosi aides to request aircraft, sometimes aggressively, and by Department of Defense officials to accommodate them.
“I think that’s above and beyond what other members of Congress are doing and what is expected of our elected officials,” said Jenny Small, a researcher with the group
Pelosi & Co. are reported to be getting their knickers in a twist when specific aircraft types – notably the Gulfstream V, a very high-end VIP jet – aren’t available at their beck and call. Between making last-minute requests and then last-minute cancellations Pelosi and her staff are costing us quite a bit. That’s to say nothing of them appropriating US military aircraft that were, we presume, acquired to perform actual military missions.
And all this “private” jet travel has got to be generating a helluva carbon footprint, don’t you think? I would think that Pelosi would want to keep that to a very rare event if she was convinced that global warming was a problem.
I guess she’s not convinced.
Madam Speaker, get a commercial plane ticket and go through what the rest of us must do in order to fly. Leave the military aircraft for military missions.
