| | John Oxendine: For taking taxpayers for a ride: News: Archives: Creative Loafing Atlanta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19) |
 | | The back story, as reported in the AJC, is that when it came time in 2002 for an arson inspector in Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine's office to replace his 1993 state-issued car, the commissioner came up with the brilliant idea of giving the inspector his own 2-year-old car and getting himself a new vehicle. |
 | | As is his style when it comes to public funds, Oxendine pulled out all the stops: a top-of-the-line Crown Victoria with a $633 CD player, $700 leather seats and an $832 "pursuit suspension" package so he can pretend he's Kojak. |
 | | The report by Inspector General James Sehorn, which accuses Oxendine of "blatant disregard for established authority," is probably causing a stink in GOP circles because it attacks a fellow Republican, but facts this obvious are hard to ignore. |
| atlanta.creativeloafing.com /2004-03-18/news_scalawag.html (420 words) |