Liberty4Ever
Regular Member
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505245_162-57424325/audit-blisters-former-ky-agriculture-commissioner
The audit describes an over-the-top culture of elitist abuse and self appointed privilege. We had already heard about the disappearing refrigerators and laptop PCs and high end big screen TVs. Now we're hearing some new abuses, including some gun related issues.
Farmer spent $96,000 on a conference that was to have about 200 attendees, including some fairly lavish gifts such as mall shopping cards, cigar boxes, watches, rifles, and rifle cases. Farmer took most of those redneck shopping spree gifts home after the conference, including 13 rifles! Transferring a new rifle requires a federal BATFE form 4473 to verify that the recipient can legally own the firearm. It's uncertain how the firearms were transferred and whether the federal paperwork was completed as required. Farmer has since returned seven of the 13 rifles. Were some of these rifles somehow purchased by the state and taken by Farmer, or were they transferred to Farmer and immediately given to friends and relatives? Either way, those would seem to be straw purchases, at best, and of course theft of tax dollars for personal use.
Farmer had a state employee drive him, in his state provided SUV, to go hunting. Farmer shot a deer from the vehicle, which is illegal in Kentucky.
http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/krs/150-00/360.PDF
Farmer had the employee field dress the deer for him while the employee was on the clock.
Of course, the article also describes a lot of wrongdoing that's unrelated to guns or gun laws.
Yet another case of YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WASTE.
I do feel very good about our new ag commissioner, Jamie Comer. He's stuck trying to fix this mess, lift morale, and return credibility to the Kentucky Department of Agriculture.
The audit describes an over-the-top culture of elitist abuse and self appointed privilege. We had already heard about the disappearing refrigerators and laptop PCs and high end big screen TVs. Now we're hearing some new abuses, including some gun related issues.
Farmer spent $96,000 on a conference that was to have about 200 attendees, including some fairly lavish gifts such as mall shopping cards, cigar boxes, watches, rifles, and rifle cases. Farmer took most of those redneck shopping spree gifts home after the conference, including 13 rifles! Transferring a new rifle requires a federal BATFE form 4473 to verify that the recipient can legally own the firearm. It's uncertain how the firearms were transferred and whether the federal paperwork was completed as required. Farmer has since returned seven of the 13 rifles. Were some of these rifles somehow purchased by the state and taken by Farmer, or were they transferred to Farmer and immediately given to friends and relatives? Either way, those would seem to be straw purchases, at best, and of course theft of tax dollars for personal use.
Farmer had a state employee drive him, in his state provided SUV, to go hunting. Farmer shot a deer from the vehicle, which is illegal in Kentucky.
http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/krs/150-00/360.PDF
Farmer had the employee field dress the deer for him while the employee was on the clock.
Of course, the article also describes a lot of wrongdoing that's unrelated to guns or gun laws.
Yet another case of YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WASTE.
I do feel very good about our new ag commissioner, Jamie Comer. He's stuck trying to fix this mess, lift morale, and return credibility to the Kentucky Department of Agriculture.