O'Malley:A bargain shopper like no other: or how to pay $61 for chairs taxpayers bought for $6,200.

I read O'Malley purchased a set of 4 chairs from the gov mansion for $61 (with an original cost of $6,200). Wow, I would think the state could have gotten more at a yard sale (or left them in the gov mansion so the taxpayers did not have to purchase new furniture).

Yeah, I know the ethics committee controlled by the Democrats said it was okay but the Repub. state prosecutor is looking at it and the other furniture purchases. It's sad that neither party seems to want to hold their own members accountable. But saying the other side does it too is not a valid excuse.

Sad indeed.

O’Malley purchase of furniture from mansion being probed by prosecutor

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/md-politics/county-states-attorney-investigating-omalley-furniture-purchase/2016/01/14/b34646b2-bb24-11e5-829c-26ffb874a18d_story.html

Thanks to what looks like a generous interpretation of state rules, by some pliable state officials, Mr. O’Malley, a Democrat who left office in January, was allowed to purchase much of the governor’s mansion’s residential furniture — 54?pieces from the family’s bedrooms and living rooms — for the attractive price of $9,638; the original price of those items, billed to taxpayers, was $62,000.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/martin-omalley-bargain-shopper/2015/09/01/fe2803c8-50ee-11e5-933e-7d06c647a395_story.html?tid=a_inl

The O’Malley shopping spree at the governor’s mansion — a $750 chest snagged for $7.50; an $892 table snapped up for $8.93; a set of four chairs, originally $6,200 for $61 — has now been referred to the state Ethics Commission. Whatever the outcome, the verdict is clear: It reflects exactly the sense of entitlement on the part of public officials that turns voters’ stomachs.