YouTube: Rep. Joe Carr (R-Lascassas) explains his bogus expense requests

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YouTube: Rep. Joe Carr (R-Lascassas) explains his bogus expense requests
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbVDziHbyMg&feature=channel

I was floored at the point wherein the news reporter had revealed that Rep. Carr was filing for per diem 5 days a week while the General Assembly was only working in Nashville during four days out of the week...and when, where, and what hotel was Rep. Carr staying at in Nashville?



Rep. Joe Carr, R-Lascassas (left); TNGA House Majority Leader Jason Mumpower (right)

Wow - Carr can't figure out something a simple as submitting a state travel voucher for per diem and this guy is elected into the Tennessee House of Representatives to balance the budget? No wonder TNGA House Speaker Kent Williams was having such a difficult time selecting capable Republican House members to serve as Committee Chairmen...

RutherfordCountyDems
August 21, 2009

Rep. Carr must think Rutherford County voters are stupid enough to believe he inadvertently requested expense money, inadvertently signed for the check and inadvertently drove himself to the bank to cash them.

This weekends Tennessean focused more on Rep. Joe Carr (R-48) out spending every single lawmaker in the House when it came to requesting $171 per day for hotel and meal expenses.

Rep. Carr had the nerve to tell the newspaper that he inadvertently requested more money for hotel and meal expenses than lawmakers who live in Memphis and Knoxville. Rep. Carr lives only 30 miles from the Capitol, and no one seems to know how he could have run up so many expenses.

Now that the media caught him with his hand in the tax payers wallet, Rep. Joe Carr has promised to claim fewer bogus expense requests in the future. That must make the voters of Lascassas feel much better.

During the last legislative session, Rep. Carr tried to deny extended unemployment benefits to residents in his district, but then he made bogus expense requests for hotels and meals he never purchased and got his own unemployment stimulus check compliments of Tennessee tax payers.

READ MORE ABOUT THIS TAX AND SPEND REPUBLICAN:
RutherfordCountyDems
August 21, 2009

Rep. Carr must think Rutherford County voters are stupid enough to believe he inadvertently requested expense money, inadvertently signed for the check and inadvertently drove himself to the bank to cash them.

This weekends Tennessean focused more on Rep. Joe Carr (R-48) out spending every single lawmaker in the House when it came to requesting $171 per day for hotel and meal expenses.

Rep. Carr had the nerve to tell the newspaper that he inadvertently requested more money for hotel and meal expenses than lawmakers who live in Memphis and Knoxville. Rep. Carr lives only 30 miles from the Capitol, and no one seems to know how he could have run up so many expenses.

Now that the media caught him with his hand in the tax payers wallet, Rep. Joe Carr has promised to claim fewer bogus expense requests in the future. That must make the voters of Lascassas feel much better.

During the last legislative session, Rep. Carr tried to deny extended unemployment benefits to residents in his district, but then he made bogus expense requests for hotels and meals he never purchased and got his own unemployment stimulus check compliments of Tennessee tax payers.

READ MORE ABOUT THIS TAX AND SPEND REPUBLICAN:
http://www.rutherfordcountydemocrats.org/2009/08/tax-and-spend-republicans-rep-joe-carr-r-48-inadvertently-made-bogus-expense-requests/