In a response to the Times-Dispatch article which reported that the city failed to improve controlling fuel spending by the city fleet, the mayor has released the following response from press secretary Linwood Norman:

From Mayor L. Douglas Wilder:

“It is clear the City Auditor has become a political lapdog in return for favors granted to him by the Council President. Instead of serving the City as a whole, he has consistently ignored ‘best practices’ in auditing, which are supposed to bring about greater efficiency in government.
“I am quite certain that the other Council members are unfamiliar with the extent of the private relationship between the auditor and the Council President.”

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