Oxendine on Cagle: ‘I think he’s just trying to hurt me’

State Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine was on WGAU (1340AM) in Athens this morning.

He continued to to accuse Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle of political meanness for an attempt to transfer of a 33-employee, $1.86 million consumer affairs division — out from under Oxendine and into the arms of the governor’s Office of Consumer Affairs.

Both Republicans are running for governor, which is made abundantly clear in this sound clip kindly sent by morning host Tim Bryant.

Said Oxendine:

I think he’s just trying to hurt me. I mean, the fact is, one of the things I talk about when I’m running for governor is the great job that we do helping the consumers of Georgia.

My consumer services division is open til 7 o’clock at night. And we collect well over $20 million every year. That’s a great success story and we talk about it. And I think it’s no surprise that all of the sudden, I start talking about that — bragging about it — saying that’s what we can do for the rest of Georgia. And have all agencies open til 7, so we can be there to serve — and he wants to take that agency away, for political reasons.

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