Just days after next week’s election, House Minority Whip Rep. Roy Blunt (R-MS) is offering his donors a weekend escape.

Blunt is planning a weekend getaway for donors to his leadership PAC, Rely on your Beliefs (ROYB), at the luxurious The Sanctuary Hotel in Charleston, SC. Depending on what next Tuesday’s results are, invited donors–those who have maxed out to the PAC this year by contributing $5,000–may well find themselves in special need of the “luxury spa indulgence or championship golf outing” offered by the beach side hotel.

Some of the organizations that have given $5,000 this year to ROYB include Abbott Laboratories PAC, Express Scripts Inc. PAC, and the International Association of Firefighters PAC, according to records filed with the U.S. Federal Election Commission.

The ROYB PAC was in the news a few years back at the height of the scandals surrounding then Rep. Tom DeLay (R-TX), as reported by The New York Times:

Mr. DeLay’s committee gave at least $150,000 to Mr. Blunt’s Rely on Your Beliefs Non-Federal Committee in 2000, which in turn wrote checks to several other DeLay organizations, the documents showed.

They showed that Mr. Blunt’s group gave $100,000 to the Missouri Republican Party, which later spent tens of thousands of dollars supporting Mr. Blunt’s son, Matt, in his campaign for secretary of state. Matt Blunt is now the state’s governor.

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