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Arizona Law Enforcement is Spendy!
Especially when a jackass of a sheriff's office abuses the state to this level according to a report:
Excerpts of the reports, obtained by TPMMuckraker, show officials from Arpaio's office made trips to Orlando, D.C., Honduras, Tempe, Belize, Alaska and Puerto Rico on the county's dime and racked up other questionable expenses, like $741 at Sardella's Pizza and Wings. The county was also charged $350 for a hotel room upgrade for one official's spouse. One employee went on multiple extradition trips without submitting receipts for the $62,750 he or she spent -- including $1,341 on Disney World Yacht Club Resort food and entertainment.
Others expenses charged to the county, according to the report, include $1,684 for a portable generator for parade lights on an army tank; $635 at Buca di Beppo when members of the Honduran National Police were in town; and $500 on a carriage ride.
The Maricopa County Office of Management and Budget unveiled the first evidence of misuse of public funds by Arpaio's office to the county Board of Supervisors on Wednesday, which the Arizona Republic reported were the result of hundreds of hours of staff research.
The punchline comes with the real number for Arizona's public to chew over:
A further review found that misspending dated back to at least 2006 at a rate of $16 million per year and that retroactively, Apraio's office may have misspent up to $80 million.
I've emphasized the number for effect, of course. I wonder how the Arizona teahadists will react to a report like this? Do they wonder where all of their tax dollars are going? I can only hope so.
So, does the big, tough, fascist jackass have any control over the office that he was duly elected to lead, or will he come out and say that he had no idea this was happening?
Or will his example be used by the teahadists as prime examples of government waste?
Can't trust the government with our money, y'know...
