REPORT: Zell Miller Stole Taxpayer Money

[Jon8503]

Georgia political analyst Bill Shipp reports that former Sen. Zell Miller - the guy who piously brags about his own integrity - essentially stole $80,000 from Georgia taxpayers upon leaving office when he was governor.

According to Shipp, who was quoting a WSB-TV investigation, Miller "pocketed more than $60,000 in taxpayer funds earmarked for entertainment and other expenses at the Governor's Mansion." Miller "also picked up a check for more than $20,000 for 'unused leave' - a sum to which he was not entitled as a constitutional officer."

Hilariously, Zell explained himself by "say that he was technically eligible to take the mansion money as his own because no one said he could not." Of course, "every other living governor from Jimmy Carter to Sonny Perdue told that they did not consider the mansion money theirs - and that they would not have taken it. The cash was meant for use at the mansion, not for lining the occupants' pockets, they said."

In some sense we shouldn't be surprised: the same man who lied about John Kerry has now been proven to essentially be a thief - not exactly shocking. But still, Zell's willingness to rip off his own state is really stunning.

Sources:
Bill Shipp's piece on Zell Miller:
http://www.macon.com/mld/macon/news/opinion/12088562.htm

[stepnw1f]

1. Clean the Dirt Out of Office!

And no... I don't care if it's a Dem.... especially this guy.

[The Backlash Cometh]

2. Buh-bye Miller

[rateyes]

3. Indict and prosecute!!! eom

[Eloriel]

4. Well, I'm shocked

I admit that I've never been one to follow state politics all that closely, but DAMN! I just don't know what got into him -- or perhaps what the press let him get away with when he was Guv. I thought he was fairly decent while he was Guv. Damn.

String him up.

[Solly Mack]

5. Indict that sorry piece of bovine caca

[Must_B_Free]

6. This is one of those bullshit technicalities

didn't they say something similar about Kerry?

Get real kids, there's a fat pig in the frying pan... Why chase butterflies?

[wurzel]

7. I knew he was a Republican all along!