Golden Showers

McCrony to spend $230,000 in taxpayer funds on bathrooms at the Governor’s mansion

Pat McCrony (r-N.C.) feels ‘entitled’ to spend up to $230,000 in taxpayer funds remodeling bathrooms in his private living quarters at North Carolina’s Executive Mansion even as he demands cuts to public schools and social programs One of these is necessary, the other is not.
McCrony is taking the term ‘Golden shower’ literally.

And yet, North Carolina just reversed its callous decision to stop issuing baby formula vouchers because of the federal government shutdown, the state Department of Health and Human Services announced on Thursday evening.
According to WRAL.com, Department director Aldona Wos said the state had secured contingency funds and money left over from the previous fiscal year to reopen the program.
They were actually going to cease WIC payments during the shutdown, yet McCrory will spend almost a quarter of a million dollars on remodeling bathrooms in his private living quarters. That’s during the shutdown while federal workers are furloughed.
According to the AP, planned upgrades include new marble, tubs and fixtures for six bathrooms on the upper floors of the Victorian-era home in Raleigh. The changes were included in a long list detailing $90 million in repairs and renovations to government buildings sent to legislative leaders last week by state budget director Art Pope. The $90 million was included in the state budget for the current fiscal year.
The Associated Press reports:

A written estimate provided to The Associated Press shows $100,710 of planned work to the governor’s master bathroom, including a new shower, tub, two lavatories and a water closet. The estimate also includes $15,800 for marble, ceramic tile and paint. All told, the project breaks down to about $420 per square foot.  

The $420 he’s spending on just one square foot could feed some of the poor and elderly in that state, let alone the amount of money McCrory is spending on toilets and such.
The decision to press ahead with the new work at the mansion comes just after (about a month ago) McCrory signed a state budget which affords big tax cuts for the wealthy while including no raises for teachers, dropping per-pupil school spending to among the lowest rates in the nation and slashing a program that provides dental work to low-income children.
Not to mention: How much is voter suppression efforts costing the taxpayers in North Carolina? It’s supposed to be for integrity, however, I see no integrity with this Governor or his repugican colleagues.
‘Fiscal Conservatives’, my ass.
North Carolina Democratic Party spokesman Ben Ray said, ”This is an junta and a legislature that rejected health care for 500,000 North Carolinians. So to drop $230,000 on a bathroom renovation just shows that Pat McCrony’s priority is not North Carolina, but himself.”
And that’s just the bathrooms. He’s having other work done at the mansion too.
Get his pampered ass out of the Governor’s mansion.