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<blockquote data-quote="moreluck" data-source="post: 1403735" data-attributes="member: 1246">And guess who gets stuck with the bill?&nbsp;&nbsp;Via <a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/after-golf-snub-president-changed-plans-went-home_804701.html" target="_blank">Weekly Standard</a>:&nbsp;A new report from NBC claims that President Obama couldn’t get a tee time during a recent visit to New York. So he packed up and went home (before returning to New York the next night for a private wedding).&nbsp;“President Obama was turned down at several top golf courses in Westchester while he was visiting the area over Labor Day weekend, sources tell NBC 4 New York,” the report states.&nbsp;“Club managers apparently did not want to inconvenience their high-powered and high-paying members over Labor Day weekend by shutting down their courses to accommodate the president. The president was in town Aug. 29, a Friday, for fundraising events in New York and Rhode Island. He had been scheduled to stay overnight in Westchester County in order to attend the Saturday evening wedding of MSNBC host Alex Wagner and White House chef Sam Kass at Blue Hill Farm.”[...]&nbsp;But the change of plans likely came with a considerable price tag. “Changes to the schedule resulted in the cancellation of some hotel rooms and a re-routing of police security details. The President returned to Westchester Saturday afternoon with a round-trip flight on Air Force One from Washington to New York, the second in as many days.”</blockquote>

[QUOTE="moreluck, post: 1403735, member: 1246"] And guess who gets stuck with the bill? Via [URL='http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/after-golf-snub-president-changed-plans-went-home_804701.html']Weekly Standard[/URL]: A new report from NBC claims that President Obama couldn’t get a tee time during a recent visit to New York. So he packed up and went home (before returning to New York the next night for a private wedding). “President Obama was turned down at several top golf courses in Westchester while he was visiting the area over Labor Day weekend, sources tell NBC 4 New York,” the report states. “Club managers apparently did not want to inconvenience their high-powered and high-paying members over Labor Day weekend by shutting down their courses to accommodate the president. The president was in town Aug. 29, a Friday, for fundraising events in New York and Rhode Island. He had been scheduled to stay overnight in Westchester County in order to attend the Saturday evening wedding of MSNBC host Alex Wagner and White House chef Sam Kass at Blue Hill Farm.”[...] But the change of plans likely came with a considerable price tag. “Changes to the schedule resulted in the cancellation of some hotel rooms and a re-routing of police security details. The President returned to Westchester Saturday afternoon with a round-trip flight on Air Force One from Washington to New York, the second in as many days.” [/QUOTE]

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