You'll be sorry.....
We're scratching our heads on this one. You'd think that Rep Jo Ann Emerson (R-MO) would be laying low on travel. But nooo. She and her husband took an all-expenses paid trip to Santa Barbara, Calif., in January for the official business purpose of "spiritual self-reflection."
The Michigan-based Fetzer Institute, the stated mission of which is to "foster awareness of the power of love and forgiveness through research and education programs," paid $1,108.70 to send Emerson and her husband, Ronald Gladney, on the two-night excursion the weekend of Jan. 20. (more here)