President Obama’s re-election campaign stiffs Vermont police department

Trevor Whipple, the police chief in South Burlington, sent the Obama re-election campaign a bill for $4,200 in overtime caused by two Obama campaign fundraising events. Vermonters may have discovered the first thing President Obama does not want to spend money on.

A Vermont police chief said President Obama’s re-election campaign has failed to reimburse local taxpayers after his officers had to work overtime to provide security at two fundraising events.

Trevor Whipple, the police chief in South Burlington, told Fox News that his department incurred $4,200 in overtime expenses as a result of separate fundraising events featuring President Obama and the First Lady.

“At the end of the day, I’ve submitted an invoice and they haven’t paid,” Whipple told Fox News. “It was an additional burden on our taxpayers, on our budget and we simply wanted to ask that they reimburse us.”

Whipple said the overtime was even more significant because of First Lady Michelle Obama’s visit. He said his department was not given advance notice.

And for a town of 17,000 people, he said it’s a good bit of money.

“It’s not going to break the bank, but clearly those are tax dollars that were not approved with the expectation they would be used provide security for a fund-raising event,” he said.