No wonder they’re called fat cats.
The chairman of the Bronx Republican Party spent more than $8,300 on lunches and dinners last year — most of them outside The Bronx — after the party received a $50,000 contribution from Mayor Bloomberg.
Campaign records show that Joseph “Jay” Savino chowed down in locations north of The Bronx from Nyack to New City with party volunteers, his executive committee and other GOP officials.
Sometimes the luncheons and dinners were back to back.
There was a $100 lunch listed for Sept. 28 at a Dave & Buster’s in West Nyack, followed by a $109.24 meeting in Manhattan’s Shun Lee restaurant with the party’s law committee and an $88.78 dinner that same day at Rick’s Club American in Congers.
Savino told The Post that there was nothing unusual about his dining habits and that the reason he frequented so many restaurants outside his home borough was because his law office moved to White Plains and it was more convenient to have meetings near it.
By comparison, the Queens Republican Party spent just $1,477 on restaurant meals in 2010.
All of Savino’s spending is legal, since there are almost no restrictions on the use of party housekeeping accounts.