RNC cultivating young donors during after-party at Voyeur West Hollywood

Oh. Wow.

Rolled up here with 6 girls around midnight on a Saturday night after we realized that the crowd at Crown Bar had gone drastically downhill.

The girl at the door sent us in right away and told us to go to a table by the bar and get some free Champagne. Seriously. This club is amazing. There are topless “dancers” acting out S&M scenes throughout the night on one of the side stages, there’s a half-naked girl hanging from a net across the ceiling and at one point I walked to the bathroom and pretty much just stopped dead in my tracks to watch two girls simulating oral sex in a glass case.

Really understated elegance here.

Also, Lindsay Lohan was at our table at one point.

Great place to let loose on a Saturday night in Weho.

From Yelp

Yep, and that is because out anything (poverty, hunger, disease) Jesus hated taxes the most. Ooops, maybe not. (“Give unto Ceaser what is Ceaser’s”)

“If you’re Persian?”

Amazing.

Sure. Lots of Persians (Iranians) in L.A. with lots of money. I believe the one of the biggest populations of Iranians outside of Iran is in LA. I’m sure there are clubs where they are not welcome by the “Hollywood” crowd.

Oh, yeah, tons of Persians in Beverly Hills. In fact, the mayor is Iranian-American, and I believe even born in Iran.

Anaheim also has an extremely large Persian population, although I would expect those with money might be more likely to live in Beverly Hills.

Lots of ex-pats from the days of the Shaw being ousted. A couple years ago I had one (well, the kid of one) as an intern. We had some very interesting conversations, and I was surprised by his views about “bombing” Iran (he was for it!).

You have to pay extra for that.

There are no backdoor reparations in the champagne room.

DC has an interesting follow up on this:

Apparently the guy says he charged it to his RNC charge card because his personal one had been rejected. He has been fired for it, but there’s still some questions raised on how the expenditure was approved. This may be more then another freakout over a non-story, but it’s more with how the RNC handles expenses then some overpriced Wachowski-brothers themed bar in LA.

Oh I get that there’s a big Iranian population there, but why on earth would they not let them in?

Hmm. Maybe some of these misconceptions and stereotypes have something to do with it?

RNC Chief of Staff Ken McKay has just resigned because of all this.

Steele will wind up going down too, mark my words.

That’d be a shame. He’s been a great source of amusement.

Ever wonder what a Young Eagle looks like?


The guy on the right is 29.

Money can’t buy you everything, it appears.

He has a Twitter feed too: http://twitter.com/jrpenniv