Visiting Temple Square, on the public's dime
Reporters always love the "hand in the cookie jar" story, when some politician gets caught using public money for personal advantage - like charging the taxpayers for a trip to some tropical location (or, in a recent case, getting a per diem for nights spent in your own house).
From Australia comes a reversal on the formula: The politician comes from a tropical location, and charges his government for a trip to Utah.
The Courier-Mail (the paper in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia) reports that a member of the Australian parliament, David Gibson, claimed a $305 daily travel allowance for a weeklong visit to Utah last June.
While in Utah, Gibson (who is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) saw a rehearsal of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, visited the LDS Family History Library, dined with a church friend and met both with church officials and Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman.
Gibson, who also attended a political seminar in Washington, D.C., justified the trip to Utah as a study tour - because he visited a sustainable building and irrigation engineering program at Utah State University in Logan. (Gibson is the climate change spokesman for the Liberal National Party, the opposition party in Australia's parliament.)
From Australia comes a reversal on the formula: The politician comes from a tropical location, and charges his government for a trip to Utah.
The Courier-Mail (the paper in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia) reports that a member of the Australian parliament, David Gibson, claimed a $305 daily travel allowance for a weeklong visit to Utah last June.While in Utah, Gibson (who is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) saw a rehearsal of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, visited the LDS Family History Library, dined with a church friend and met both with church officials and Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman.
Gibson, who also attended a political seminar in Washington, D.C., justified the trip to Utah as a study tour - because he visited a sustainable building and irrigation engineering program at Utah State University in Logan. (Gibson is the climate change spokesman for the Liberal National Party, the opposition party in Australia's parliament.)
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