Sheriff david morgan biography
Ex-Florida sheriff spent thousands in taxpayer money on ......
Sheriff david morgan biography
'Narcissistic waste': Former Sheriff Morgan spent $75, of taxpayer money on statue of himself
Former Escambia County Sheriff David Morgan spent thousands of public tax dollars to order a life-size bronze statue of himself last year before the end of his final term in office.
Current Sheriff Chip Simmons called the 6-footinch statue, which arrived last week at the Sheriff's Office, a "brash narcissistic waste."
"You don't make a statue of yourself," Simmons said Wednesday.
"And you don't use tax dollars to do it."
Morgan defended the decision, saying it was not that big of a deal.
"I was the sheriff at the time," Morgan told the News Journal. "I think people may be wanting to make more of this than it really is.
It's just a statue of me saluting the men and women of the Escambia County Sheriff's Office and the first responders that died on active duty. It's that simple."
The statue of Morgan was one of two statues that the former sheriff paid for out of the EC