Zell has his own "Deficit of Decency"

[quaoar]

Deficit of Decency is the title of Zell's book. Maybe he should have read it. This was posted in another forum but I thought it was interesting enough to share here, too.

http://aladems.net/nucleus/index.php?itemid=375

When this nationally famous figure left the governor's office in 1999, he pocketed more than $60,000 in taxpayer funds earmarked for entertainment and other expenses at the Governor's Mansion, WSB-TV investigative reporter Dale Cardwell revealed last week.

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, Cardwell reported.

At first blush, such stuff may sound shockingly sleazy. Bear with us. Miller has an explanation, contained in prepared statements issued through his attorney.

In essence, Miller says he was technically eligible to take the mansion money as his own because no one said he could not. "When I retired from state government, I received only what I was advised was legal, ethical and traditional," his statement read, citing an attorney general's official opinion from 1969.

[acmejack]

1. Zell wouldn't know decency if it bit him on the ass!

What a hypocritical windbag.

[Wetzelbill]

2. Oh Zell, you really are part of the wacky GOP now that your officially a

crook.

[Vickers]

3. Careful, quaoar, that crazy jackal will challenge you to a duel!

:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

[quaoar]

7. Bring him on! I've got my yellow dog to back me up

[RubyDuby in GA]

4. hehehe

I was reading a column yesterday by Bill Shipp to which he says something like that this is the Democrats way of finally letting Zell know that we've had enough of his shit.

I'd personally like to let Zell know that if you tell someone that they have no decency long enough, it becomes true. We will do whatever it takes to make the whole world see that you are nothing more than a damn, lying hypocrite just that the asshole Republicans that are your new best friends.


On edit: here's the article I was talking about:
http://onlineathens.com/stories/071005/opi_20050710050.shtml

<snip>
"One wonders whether some of Miller's fellow Democrats, tired of his invective and "decency" sermons, have not set out to do the same to Zell.

Word has it, there's much more to come."

Ya think?? :)

[gratuitous]

5. Hmmm, situational ethics

If there's a pile of money sitting there that doesn't belong to you, and nobody says you can't just have it, you're entitled to help yourself to it? I wonder how Zig-Zag Zell squares that in his First Church of the Sanctimonious Hypocrite services?

[quaoar]

6. dupe post