Rep Joe Carr: I didn't know I took all that money.
Rep. Carr has made more requests for meal and hotel expenses than any other lawmaker in the state House of Representatives, more than Memphis and Knoxville lawmakers with legitimate travel expenses. Rep. Carr lives in a neighboring county to the state Capitol, and it is unclear why he made so many requests for money he never spent on meals and hotel rooms.
“If Rep. Carr ‘inadvertently’ made over $18,000 in bogus expense requests, it’s hard to believe he then ‘inadvertently’ signed for the checks and ‘inadvertently’ drove himself to the bank to ‘inadvertently’ deposit the taxpayers’ money in his personal bank account,” said RCDP Chairman Jonathon Fagan. “Rep. Carr can easily fix this mess by coming clean and returning that money to the taxpayers.”
In the last legislative session, Rep. Carr pushed legislation demanding Gov. Bredesen deny his own constituents unemployment benefits (HJR - 0150). His efforts thankfully failed, while at the same time Rep. Carr was stuffing his bank account with thousands of dollars of his own private stimulus checks compliments of the very taxpayers who now find themselves without a job.
“Rep. Carr represents the brand of Republican that America sent packing to the hills in 2008 after plundering record surpluses of the Clinton years through historic record deficit spending. Unfortunately the hills they fled to are right here in Tennessee,” Fagan said. “And in 2010, it’s time Tennesseans finish the job and rid our state and our country from these tax and spend Republicans. It’s time to move Tennessee forward.”
Murfreesboro Tennessee is the birthplace of today’s modern Democratic Party, born in 1822 in what was then the State Capitol on Vine Street when Andrew Jackson declared his candidacy for President of the United States and was nominated by the Tennessee Legislature. The Democratic Party that was born then is now the oldest surviving political party in the world. Visit the Rutherford County Democratic Party website at www.rutherfordcountydemocrats.org.
LouAnn Zelenick needs to hook him up with some L&N Construction health insurance and get them teeth fixed. He’d look a lot less like a crook. Look at Ernest Burgess’s new choopers. Not a single lie would dare squeeze through them pearly whites.
That’s not right making fun of Joe Carr’s crooked teeth like that. He’s lived with them all his life and it’s a real sore spot. If you would quit telling him to return that money he needs to fix them he could get Ernest’s dentist to help him if that’s all that matters to you, Mary. Real funny.
Do you really think Rep. Carr intends to give any money back? If he honestly “inadvertently” took money without realizing it he’d return it, but we all know he’s lying and will keep every dime. That’s why this needs to be his first and last term in any elected office.
Good point Shane. If we have to ask, then there’s something wrong. What’s wrong is we have a joker representing us. Rutherford County is one of the finest counties in Tennessee, and this joker and Donna Rowland are the only faces folks see of us. Surely we can do better than this!
Now, Now, all! You can’t blame him for this. He was just doing what he thought was “right”. I am sure that like most republicans, he just thought he was getting what he could, since this is probably gonna be his only term in office. With any luck, the people in his district will wise up and elect someone who will try to be a good steward of fiscal responsibility, that way it will be one less thing for Rutherford County voters to worry about. By the by, I think the jack-o-lantern look fits him well! It’s very evil villain.