General Services Adminstration (GSA) employees at the now-infamous Las Vegas conference joked about partying and spending taxpayer dollars on personal luxuries, without oversight, in a new video uncovered by House investigators.
“Obama better prepare!” one GSA employee sings in a song about his hoped-for term as GSA Commissioner. “I’d have a road show like [Acting Regional GSA Administrator for Region Jeffrey] Neely, every time you see me rolling on 20s, yeah, in my GOV.” The term ’20s’ is a reference to the diameter of the tire rims that the federal employee planned to put on his government vehicle.
“I’d buy everything your field office can’t afford,” he also sings as the video shows people mounting a flat-screen television on the wall. “Donate my vacation, love to the nation, I’ll never be under OIG investigation,” he concluded.
The GSA leadership praised the employee for the song, naming him honorary GSA commissioner for the day at the Vegas conference.
“The hotel would like to talk to you about paying for the party that was held in the commissioner’s suite last night,” they joked to the new ‘commissioner,’ before adding that “Eleanor Holmes Norton, — our chairwoman on the Oversight Committee –called, she has a couple of questions about the proposed pay increases for executives you mentioned outside.”
GSA head Martha Johnson resigned after reports of the $800,000 conference made national news. “Reports of an internal conference in which taxpayer dollars were squandered led me to launch internal reviews, take disciplinary personnel action, and institute tough new controls to ensure this incident is not repeated,” she said in her resignation letter.
