POLITICAL CARTOON - Foie Gras, My Friend?
First class ticket to Atlanta? School district personnel providing shuttle service to Richmond to catch a flight? Canceled credit cards? Sigh ...
By Clay Jones
POLITICAL CARTOONIST
Reporting this past week by Adele Uphaus that a member of the Fredericksburg School Board took a first-class flight to a conference in Atlanta, had school division transportation personnel shuttle her to the airport in Richmond, and was traveling with School Board clerk Angie Roenke’s credit card which was shut down due to “possible purchase card usage issues” drew a great deal of attention. As did Uphaus’ reporting on July 8 about travel to Hawaii by another Board member. Yes — Clay Jones noticed.
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