Georgia’s highest-paid elected official says he needs a taxpayer-funded full-size SUV to get to meetings and public appearances, and he won’t even consider turning it in unless told to by the whole Fulton County Commission.
Tax Commissioner Arthur Ferdinand also denies retaliating against the county commissioner who first brought attention to the vehicle’s purchase. He used tax records to question her eligibility for office, suggesting in a memo to the interim county attorney and commissioners this week that she may actually live in Gwinnett County.
He says Commissioner Liz Hausmann brought that on herself by filing false documents.
Both Hausmann and her landlord say she still lives in Johns Creek, though at a different address than the one listed on her vehicle registration and campaign disclosures.
“It’s not every day that a commissioner gives us documents that are not correct,” Ferdinand told Channel 2 Action News, “so I made an extra step to notify the attorney.”
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