Brickbat: Have Credit Card, Will Travel

Residents and city council members in South Fulton, Georgia, are questioning thousands of dollars in unapproved purchases made with city funds by Mayor Khalid Kamau. Between October and December, Kamau made $26,000 in unauthorized purchases with his city-issued credit card, including more than $5,000 on plane tickets and $1,300 for a drone. He has not submitted receipts for 112 purchases. Kamau says the criticism is all political.

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[Fist of Etiquette]

Kamau says the criticism is all political.

He should have spent at least some of those taxpayer dollars on a race card to throw.

[Adans smith]

He's saving that for the trial.

[Adans smith]

Proving once again they all taxes are theft.

[Stupid Government Tricks]

Here's part of the problem:

Resident Reshard Snellings told Channel 2 Investigative Reporter Ashli Lincoln that the Mayor of South Fulton Khalid Kamau, who now goes by the name Mayor Kobi, documented his 20-day December trip to Ghana on Instagram.

Population 107,000 (2020). Why would anyone vote for a mayor who changes his name once elected? Surely there must have been warning signs before the election.

They got what they voted for.

[Medulla Oblongata]

City of Atlanta, Fulton County, Gwinnett County, and Dekalb County all have a long, storied history of document and prosecuted corruption dating back 60+ years. The City of South Fulton is simply the newest kid on the block, learning how the old boys do things.

Democrats across the board.

[Medulla Oblongata]

Recently created City of South Fulton just created whole bunch of new offices Democrats in Fulton County could plunder, sort of double dipping on the historic corruption of Fulton County.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Who do they think they are, the post office?

[Minadin]

That's nothing:

In one year, Keisha Scarlett, former superintendent of the St. Louis Public Schools system, took the district from a $17 million annual surplus to a $35 million dollar deficit.

Meanwhile, School Board members racked up 1100 transactions on their district-issued credit cards, totalling over $260,000. More than 600 of these transactions, almost $150,000 was deemed 'questionable' when audited. (60%!) Also:

"These included $88,500 in charges by Scarlett herself for items like food, gifts, personal care, and travel.

Additionally, a records request by the Post-Dispatch found district staff spent $1.6 million during Scarlett’s tenure [Minadin Note: 1 year], with significant expenses going toward travel, food, and entertainment unrelated to school operations or academics."

https://fox2now.com/news/missouri/slps-implementing-guidelines-for-district-credit-card-holders-following-audit/