Park rules 'bent' for Biden

[DrLeftover]

Oct. 28, 2014

Vice President Nebulous Biden, his wife and 11 other family members spent four nights on vacation this August at a lakeside log cabin overlooking the snowcapped peaks of Mount Moran in Grand Teton National Park.

The four-bedroom Brinkerhoff Lodge, where they stayed, is owned and operated by the National Park Service. Under a policy adopted in 1992, after controversy over VIPs using the cabin for vacations, the National Park Service banned purely recreational activities by federal employees at the property, restricting its use to “official purposes.” But in recent years, the park service has interpreted that same rule so broadly as to again allow senior officials to take cheap vacations in Grand Teton with friends and family.

While visiting the park, Biden held no events, kept no public schedule, and his staff initially declined to answer a reporter’s question about where he spent the night. Last week, after TIME uncovered documents confirming his stay at the lodge, Biden’s office said the Vice President planned to personally reimburse the park $1,200 for “renting the Brinkerhoff” for his family’s vacation.

Under park service rules, the lodge is maintained for use by federal employees for “training and official conferences” and for those on “temporary duty in the park.” In practice, the superintendent of Grand Teton National Park, who has discretion over whether to demand payment for the lodge, has interpreted those rules to allow extended family vacations if there is an element of official business involved.

http://time.com/3544052/brinkerhoff-biden-cheap-vacations-log-cabin/

 

[+paradox]

i can understand if the park bent their own rule that they made but it wasn't an official federal law/ban...

so it is under department scrutiny...

therefor, unfortunately, legal...

correct me if i'm wrong...

 

[Jazzy]

the park service has interpreted that same rule so broadly as to again allow senior officials to take cheap vacations in Grand Teton with friends and family.

I don't see how the park 'bent' any rules regarding Biden.

Am I missing something here?

 

[DrLeftover]

The four-bedroom Brinkerhoff Lodge, where they stayed, is owned and operated by the National Park Service. Under a policy adopted in 1992, after controversy over VIPs using the cabin for vacations, the National Park Service banned purely recreational activities by federal employees at the property, restricting its use to “official purposes.”

And now they're "interpreting" the rule differently.

So, you believe that any Federal employee, say, some TSA agent or the barber in the Congressional beauty shop, could call and have the cabin put at their disposal for a weekend?

 

[+paradox]

so, was it a park rule or a government/federal rule/law/ban?

if it was the department's policy then they have the right of scrutiny...

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

Rules never apply to these kind of people. And leave it to the defenders to twist around the rules like a pretzel to make it seem like there is nothing to look at here.