P.G. County Officials Maxed Out?

At the request of State's attorney Glenn Ivey, the State Prosecutor is investigating whether several members of the Prince George's County government, including County Executive Jack Johnson and Councilmembers David Harrington and Camille Exum, misused county-issued credit cards, as was reported last week. The latter two, you'll recall, endorsed Michael Steele on the eve of the election, along with Wayne Curry and and some other Councilmembers. No doubt there's some bad behavior here, with few clean hands -- with the exception of Doug Peters and Tom Dernoga, perhaps. We in Prince George's need to do better at holding their feet to the fire.

As for Johnson, for a guy who just barely scraped past a primary challenge from Rushern Baker and lost a lot of his power due to recently passed charter amendments, you'd think he'd be a little chastened, right? Well, not so much. In an interview with the Post, he calls his reelection "the greatest victory I could have had," and "a very strong mandate to me that people like the direction I am taking the county." However, the article also gives signs that Johnson is taking a conciliatory approach from some of his opponents, so perhaps there's hope.

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