John Edwards reimburses campaign for both $400 hair cuts

Heh. Too funny:

WASHINGTON (AP) – Democrat John Edwards is trying to get out of a hairy situation, reimbursing his presidential campaign $800 for two visits with a Beverly Hills stylist.

Two $400 cuts by stylist Joseph Torrenueva, who told The Associated Press that the former North Carolina senator is a longtime client, showed up on Edwards’ campaign spending reports filed this weekend. Edwards spokesman Eric Schultz said it never should have been there.

“The bill was sent to the campaign. It was inadvertently paid,” Schultz said. “John Edwards will be reimbursing the campaign.”

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Federal Election Commission records show Edwards’ campaign also spent $250 in services from Designworks Salon in Dubuque, Iowa, and $225 in services from the Pink Sapphire in Manchester, N.H.

Schultz said those services were legitimate campaign expenditures to prepare Edwards for media appearances.

LOL! I would love to see an itemized bill for the services he rec’d at those two salons, just to see what kind of ‘legitimate campaign expenditures’ Edwards is billing to the campaign. And BTW, I think he might have lost the Iowa barber vote ;)

The AP article also reported this, which I’d not heard before:

Political candidates often have hair and makeup done before media appearances. Edwards rival Hillary Rodham Clinton got some attention last year when her campaign paid $2,500 for two hairstyling sessions that the campaign classified as media production expenses.

That makes sense. Just like with every other aspect of Hillary Clinton’s life, her hair is a big production unto itself.

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