{"id":1977599,"date":"2023-07-19T16:28:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-19T20:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/virginia-dems-take-lavish-trip-to-africa-on-taxpayers-dime\/"},"modified":"2023-07-19T16:29:26","modified_gmt":"2023-07-19T20:29:26","slug":"virginia-dems-take-lavish-trip-to-africa-on-taxpayers-dime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/virginia-dems-take-lavish-trip-to-africa-on-taxpayers-dime\/","title":{"rendered":"Virginia Democrats go on extravagant Africa trip using taxpayer funds."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fvirginia-dems-take-lavish-trip-to-africa-on-taxpayers-dime%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1977599&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Loudoun County \u2062Officials Spend\u2064 Taxpayer\u2063 Money\u2063 on Luxurious Trip \u200bto Africa<\/h2>\n<div>\n \u2062 <\/p>\n<figure>\n   \u2064<figcaption>Loudoun\u2062 County board chair \u200dPhyllis Randall<\/figcaption>\u2062 \u200c<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Three Democratic \u2063elected officials in\u200d Virginia recently\u200c embarked\u2063 on \u2064a\u2064 trip\u2064 to Africa, funded\u200b by taxpayer \u200dmoney. The \u200ctrip included \u2064extravagant\u200d accommodations \u2064in five-star luxury hotels \u2064and \u2064business class\u2063 tickets.<\/p>\n<div>\n \u2062 \u2062  \u200d<\/p>\n<p><a \u2063href=\"https:\/\/stopthebigboxbaitandswitch.com\/?utm_source=freebeacon&#038;utm_medium=advertising&#038;utm_campaign=2023\"\u200d target=\"_blank\"\u200b rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Click here<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>   \u2062 <\/p>\n<p><a\u200d href=\"https:\/\/stopthebigboxbaitandswitch.com\/?utm_source=freebeacon&#038;utm_medium=advertising&#038;utm_campaign=2023\" \u200dtarget=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Click here<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2063 \u200d <\/p><\/div>\n<p>Phyllis Randall,\u200d the\u200b board chair of\u200b Loudoun \u200dCounty, along \u2062with\u200b two\u2063 other county supervisors, \u2063Sylvia \u200bGlass and Koran Saines,\u200b traveled \u2063to Africa in\u2062 June. Their \u200cpurpose was to sign a sister \u200bcity agreement with\u200d the mayor \u2063of\u200b Tema, Ghana. However,\u2063 receipts and travel documents\u2063 obtained\u2062 by ABC \u200baffiliate 7News reveal\u200d that the\u2064 officials indulged in\u200c lavish expenses and spent most of \u200dtheir \u2064time sightseeing.<\/p>\n<p> \u2063 <\/p>\n<p>In an interview \u2062with 7News, \u2062Randall was \u200dquestioned\u200c about\u200b why \u200cthey chose to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/climate-hawk-sean-casten-flew-6000-miles-stayed-in-luxury-european-hotel-to-fight-global-warming\/\" title=\"Climate Hawk Sean Casten Flew 6,000 Miles, Stayed in Luxury European Hotel to Fight Global Warming\">fly business class<\/a>,\u200d especially \u2063in \u2062contrast to Secretary \u200cof \u200cTransportation Pete Buttigieg, who\u2062 typically \u2062flies \u200beconomy\u200c on \u2063commercial \u200dflights. Randall \u2062defended their\u200c decision, stating, \u200d&#8221;Pete \u200dButtigieg\u200b is not \u200dthe \u200cchief elected official of \u2062the federal government. I\u200b am\u200c the chief elected \u200bofficial \u2062of \u2064the county.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>  \u2063<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stopthebigboxbaitandswitch.com\/?utm_source=freebeacon&#038;utm_medium=advertising&#038;utm_campaign=2023\" target=\"_blank\"\u200c rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Click \u200chere<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p> \u2062\u2062 \u2064  <\/p>\n<p><a\u200d href=\"https:\/\/stopthebigboxbaitandswitch.com\/?utm_source=freebeacon&#038;utm_medium=advertising&#038;utm_campaign=2023\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Click \u2063here<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2064  <\/p><\/div>\n<p>This\u200c revelation comes \u200bafter Randall&#8217;s association \u200dwith \u2063a controversial \u2063Facebook \u2064group called &#8220;Loudoun Love Warriors&#8221; was\u200c exposed.\u200c Members of the group have been \u200caccused of doxxing\u2062 and \u2063threatening\u2062 parents \u200bwho spoke \u200cat <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-gop-plans-to-ask-fbi-director-christopher-wray-to-correct-his-testimony\/\" title=\"House GOP to request FBI Director Christopher Wray to 'rectify his testimony'.\">school board\u200b meetings<\/a>\u200d in\u2064 Loudoun \u2062County. The \u200dcounty sheriff&#8217;s office has \u2064initiated an investigation into\u2062 the\u200b group&#8217;s activities, \u200calthough \u2063Randall \u200dhas \u200bcondemned their behavior.<\/p>\n<p>  \u200d<\/p>\n<p>In \u2062addition to the \u2064<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/virginia-dems-take-lavish-trip-to-africa-on-taxpayers-dime\/\" title=\"Virginia Democrats go on extravagant Africa trip using taxpayer funds.\">exorbitant business \u2062class tickets\u2062 costing <\/a>,300 each,\u2063 taxpayers \u2063also footed the \u200dbill for Saines&#8217;s\u2063 $200\u2062 overweight bag\u200c fee \u200band a room\u200c upgrade for Randall, which doubled\u200b the cost\u200b of her\u2062 hotel\u2063 stay. Randall \u2063has \u200cacknowledged that \u200cthe \u200dcounty \u200cshould not have paid \u200dfor \u200dthe upgrade\u200b and\u2063 has promised\u2064 to reimburse\u2064 the\u2062 difference.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Loudoun County board chair Phyllis Randall and two other Virginia Democratic officials used over $60,000 of taxpayer funds for a lavish trip to Africa. Their June visit involved opulent five-star hotels and business class flights. The purpose was to establish a sister relationship between Loudoun County and an African region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2083,"featured_media":1977600,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1977599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2083"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1977599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1977600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1977599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1977599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1977599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}