Tens of Thousands View DressLikePalin Web Site

OAKLAND, Calif., Oct. 31 / — More than 62,000 viewers have viewed the http://www.DressLikePalin.com website this week, scores offering their views on other uses that could have been made for the $150,000 the Republican National Committee famously spent on the wardrobe for Gov. Sarah Palin.

The internet game sponsored by the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee, presents its suggestions on alternatives to the spending spree for what CNA/NNOC Executive Director Rose Ann DeMoro calls the real Marxist in the Presidential race — “the Neiman Marxist adorned in that fetching $150,000 wardrobe,”

The same $150,000 could buy 15,000 nurses scrubs, for example. The $22,800 the RNC spent on makeup alone would pay for 224 mammograms, 651 flu shots, or provide a supply of cholesterol lower Lipitor for one person for nearly 14 years.

Those viewing the internet game are invited to present their own opinions on how the $150,000 could have been better spent. Among the comments:

– I would make a donation to my local university’s scholarship fund.    
– I would buy my mother a new home for which she very much needs.    
– Shelter for thousands of homeless across the country.    
– A college education for my daughter.    
– I would pay off my credit card, save for 2 kids to go to college, give some to charity, and whatever is left, stuff in my mattress.    
– I could get married….     — Food for the food bank for 5 years…    
– A house or perhaps donate to a transplant hospital. My husband needs a kidney and I don’t think he will get one with Medicare only!    
– Health care for families where the parent(s) work at WalMart.    
– I would be able to pay off my house and half of my student loans, which cause me to live pay check to pay check.    
– A modest home and property where my husband and I could retire.   
– 150,000 would make a really great computer lab in the local public school or library.    
– I’d start a foundation for at-risk high school students.    
– A house and I would pay for health insurance for myself & daughters since I am currently self employed and do not have insurance…partially because I worry if I ever used it they would cancel it anyway.   
– Dr. visits for as many as possible!    
– I’d give it all to the Greater Chicago Food Depository, a food bank.    
– I would buy back my neighbor’s house who lost it to foreclosure due to predatory lending.    
– I would give the $150,000 to the Mother, Child, and Adolescent HIV program for which I work.  That money could keep a child on medication for 12.5 years.  Most of our families live on less than $10,000 per year!    
– I’d buy healthcare coverage for a month for, yikes, just 10 or 11 families …    
– I would by 15000 warm winter jackets for the homeless at about 10 dollars each.    
– A nice school outfit for a foster child with a very limited budget.    
– Dental care for myself and all my other self-employed, self-insured workers.    
– I would pay off medical bills. One from a thoractomy from two years ago for me, one also from two years ago and my son was uninsured because he had a “pre-existing condition” from when he was born nine years ago. Someone decided since I was induced due to toxemia that he was premature. Now I have to pay $5,000 for his broken arm because someone decided it was bad that he needed speech therapy at 3 yrs old, he was “premature” at 8 1/2 months and takes Ritalin…     
– Textbooks for inner city children.    
– Membership in Environmental organizations opposed to Drilling in the Alaskan natural Wildlife Preserve.      
– Five full time case workers at our local domestic violence program, for a year, with benefits.    
– Food for refugees in Darfur.    
– My husband just had to close his business after 22 years of hard work.
–I would have used the money to help him keep his business or to help my two sons finish college.  I also would have my husband use the time off to get his bachelor’s degree.  He went to trade school and was a successful business owner (like Joe the plumber) until “W” got hold of this country and ruined it.  It is too bad Sarah is not a nurse-we all could think of millions of humanitarian ways to spend that kind of money.    
– Pay for the experimental cancer treatment that would help my daughter live longer.    
– Her boots cost almost as much as my rent! Good thing I get food Stamps!    
– I would donate it to the children’s cancer community my non-profit that helps families with a child with cancer.    
– Body armor for ALL our troops overseas.    
– The Lobbyist Lunch Special for Two at Jack Abramoff’s favorite restaurant.