Jack Johnson's African Junket: $30,000

Comment:  So is Johnson's pending request to override the voters and raise taxes really intended to get money for schools, avoid layoffs, or to finance Johnson's extravagances?

Johnson's Africa Trip Cost $30,000.
Post, 10 Feb 2009 (Wiggins).

Prince George's County Executive Jack B. Johnson's trip to Africa last year cost taxpayers about $30,000, according to invoices released by county officials. . . . Three months before the trip, Johnson announced that 5,600 county employees would be forced to take two weeks of unpaid leave. . . .

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(Posted 10 Feb  2009)