Michael Steele's multi-tasking kid sister billed his Senate campaign more than $37,000 for "catering/web" services provided by her investment company.
Serving up coffee, coding in Java and betting on Jamaican Blue Mountain futures - all in a day's work at Brown Sugar Unlimited LLC.
Even with all that catering, Web wizardry and investing going on, Monica Turner somehow found time to be a pediatrician, mom and ex-Mrs. Mike Tyson.
How did she keep all those balls in the air?
Sibling rivalry, baby.
What better explains that kind of maniacal drive than a big brother seminarian, corporate lawyer, small-business owner, GOP consultant, lieutenant governor, U.S. Senate candidate, international lawyer, GOPAC head, Fox commentator and now, RNC chief.
"Michael! Michael ! Michael!" as Jan Brady would whine.
Turner would do well to remember that Steele hasn't done all of those things at once. And he hasn't done all of them well. His small business failed, and liens were slapped on his house. In four years as Lt. Gov, a job that comes with precisely zero constitutionally mandated duties, Steele wrapped up the death penalty study that was his biggest homework assignment by saying we should study the death penalty.
But Steele has done some juggling.
Back in 2002, he managed to find time to work as a $5,000-a-month consultant to the Maryland Republican Party even as he ran for lieutenant governor. Dems accused the GOP of paying Steele to run. I say he was just setting a good example for kid sis.
There was even more multi-tasking after his Senate bid. Steele built the Republican farm team as GOPAC chief and worked as a Fox commentator - all while pulling down a partner's paycheck at Dewey & LeBoeuf.
"I've been asked to sort of build an Africa practice for them," he said in an interview posted on the Web site of Kustom Looks Clothier, the Maryland haberdashery that makes his suits.
(Kustom Looks had invited Steele to model in a fashion show - another talent! - around the time he started at GOPAC and the firm. He talked fashion and career before the event got under way.)
"So we're doing a lot of work - we're going to do a lot - on the continent, trying to bring business here, take business there. ... My attitude is, look, we should be wherever the Chinese are. And the Chinese are in Africa in a big way."
So is Dewey & LeBoeuf in Africa in a big way now? The firm's Web site lists a South African office. Can we chalk that up to Steele?
