Today's Roundup of Taxpayer News!
UnionsCosting Taxpayers Millions of Dollars on “Official Time”
A Housecommittee is investigating $129 million that was potentially misspent on governmentemployed union officials who billed time while conducting union business.
NewMexico Taxpayers Foot the Bill for Public Pay, not Emergency Equipment
Reportshave surfaced outlining that $80 million of taxpayers’ money were diverted fromproviding funds for critical emergency equipment to pay for police and firedepartment salaries.
D.C.Taxpayers Funding Another Politician’s Personal Preference
D.C. CouncilmanKwame Brown seems to have misused taxpayer money by ordering twoluxury-outfitted Lincoln Navigators, keeping both even though he rejected thecolor of the first model’s interior.