‘Low-Key Flex’: Sean Patrick Maloney Flaunts Visit to Hollywood’s Most Exclusive Private Club
New York Dem congressman has blasted Democrats for seeming ‘elitist’ and ‘out of touch’
Collin Anderson • October 13, 2022 5:00 am
New York congressman Sean Patrick Maloney is flaunting his visit to Hollywood’s “most exclusive private club” just months after the Democrat criticized his party for coming across as “elitist” and “out of touch.”
Maloney was photographed outside the U.S. Capitol on September 30 with a sticker from San Vicente Bungalows—Hollywood’s “most exclusive private club,” according to Page Six—on the back of his cell phone. That sticker is placed over a guest’s phone camera upon entry to the club to ensure privacy, and among the Los Angeles elite, “it’s become a low-key flex to keep the palm-tree bungalows sticker adhered to the back of one’s phone case,” New York magazine wrote in February. Maloney’s visit to the A-list hotspot appears to have come on the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee’s (DCCC) dime: On February 4, the committee—which Maloney chairs—spent nearly $500 at San Vicente Bungalows for “events/meetings.” The week of that event, the committee spent more than $2,100 on “travel” in California, including a $768 disbursement at the SLS Hotel, a five-star Luxury Collection hotel in Beverly Hills that features “exquisite room offerings … near Rodeo Drive,” “stunning views from our seductive Vista Pool deck,” and “the finest seafood delicacies flown in fresh daily.”
Maloney’s visit to the elite Hollywood club and apparent stay at the luxury Beverly Hills hotel is particularly notable given that the Democrat trashed his party for its elitism just months after the trip. Maloney, who is tasked with retaining Democrats’ House majority in next month’s midterm elections, told the New York Times in August that the party comes across as “elitist” and “out of touch.” “We could be more comfortable on the factory floor—or at least as comfortable on the factory floor as we are in the faculty lounge,” Maloney said. “I think that most of the voters that we ask about this think that we’re out of touch, they think we’re elitist, we think we are better than
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