Zell Miller With His Pants Down

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[ing] 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 [WSB-TV] 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.

Quote from Sirotablog @ workingforchange.com. Full article at Macon Telegraph.

Real surprising.