Animals are routinely tortured and slaughtered by the cosmetics industry. This is an area that deserves more attention, worldwide.
Speaking of that, politicians in the pocket of Big Cosmetics deserve scorn.
news.bostonherald.com
Ted K, wife take beauty of a junket on L'Oreal
By Andrew Miga
Monday, February 21, 2005
WASHINGTON - L'Oreal, the cosmetics giant, picked up the $22,156 tab for Sen. Edward M. Kennedy's trip to Paris for the black-tie opening of the firm's Jacqueline Kennedy exhibition, records show.
Kennedy and his wife Victoria Reggie Kennedy enjoyed a six-day trip to France Nov. 14-19, 2002, courtesy of the world's largest cosmetics manufacturer, according to a Herald review of Senate travel records.
Kennedy's Parisian hotel room cost L'Oreal nearly $10,000 while meals for the couple totaled $1,100, records show.
The celebrity-studded opening of ``Jacqueline Kennedy: the White House Years'' at the famed Louvre included actress Catherine Deneuve, French First Lady Bernadette Chirac and such clothing designers as Pierre Cardin, Giorgio Armani and Karl Lagerfeld.
Kennedy appeared at a press conference with niece Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg. Kennedy aides stressed the senator made the trip as an informal ambassador for the Kennedy Library, whose selections were used in the exhibit. Kennedy also attended the exhibit's U.S. openings in Boston, New York, Washington and Chicago.
The senior senator's Parisian jaunt was among the dozens of trips members of the Massachusetts congressional delegation and their staffers have taken in recent years that were paid for by a wide array of special interest groups, from think tanks to major corporations. |
