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Title: Government Wastes Unnecessary Portrait Perks View count: 165 Rating: 5.0 (2 ratings) Description: http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/21/campbell.brown.portraits/index.html CNN's Campbell Brown sounds off on the exorbitant cost to taxpayers for portraits of outgoing administration officials. Official portraits kick into high gear at the end of any administration. Perk isn't reserved for presidents, cabinet secretaries get them too. Cost ranges from $7,500 to nearly $50,000, says Washington Post But what you may not know is that this little perk isn't reserved for presidents. Cabinet secretaries get them too. According to The Washington Post, the costs of these portraits ranges from $7,500 to nearly $50,000. Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld went high end. The Pentagon, The Post reports, is currently awaiting delivery of Rumsfeld's portrait. Total cost: $46,790. The Commerce Department is spending $35,000 on a portrait of Secretary Carlos Gutierrez; $25,000 for the former NASA administrator, $29,500 for the outgoing head of the EPA, and the list goes on and on. Tags: government, spending, waste, perks, expensive, portraits, pork, barrel, projects, Author: conciousgood |
