Pence’s pricey junket
How much did Pence’s flight from Las Vegas to Indianapolis in order to walk out of a football game cost us? CNN does the adding up.
Here is an estimate of just the air costs (which does not include costs of advance personnel, Secret Service or support on the ground):
According to the Air Force, flying a C-32, the model of plane used for Air Force 2, for one hour costs about $30,000. Pence’s flight from Las Vegas to Indianapolis Saturday took about three hours and 20 minutes, so it cost about $100,000
Pence then flew from Indianapolis to Los Angeles on Sunday, which took about four hours and 45 minutes, costing about $142,500.The grand total: about $242,500.
A quarter of a million before you take the other expenses into account. All that just to march into a football stadium, wait a few minutes, and then march out again.
And what was the purpose of your journey? To whip up more hatred of black people.
The grand old Duke of Pork
He paid ten thousand men
To march him up the stairs
And march him down again