Bush appointed former NYC police commishiner Kerik as the new Homeland Security Chief. According to drudge, which is a right wing site so hardly has any incentive to lie about this, this guy used money from a foundation intended to help officers to make little statues of himself.

POLICE FOUNDATION SPENT $3,000 TO SCULPT 'KERIK THE GREAT'
Fri Dec 03 2004 11:25:19 ET

President Bush on Friday nominated former New York police commissioner Bernard Kerik to replace Tom Ridge as Homeland Security secretary.

During his time in NY, Kerik was immortalized for the ages in a 7-pound sculpture bust.

The NY Police Foundation, a nonprofit organization that raises funds for programs to support NYPD officers, quietly spent about $3,000 for 30 busts of Kerik in 2002.

The 7-pound busts of "Kerik The Great" depict him in uniform, with a mustache and with his department name tag. Each is mounted on a wooden platform.

Pam Delaney, the foundation's executive director, said the group, whose stated mission is to improve the quality of police services through programs that cannot be funded by the city, was asked to create the busts by Kerik's aide. They were to be given to friends and visiting dignitaries.

Kerik "meant it as a nice gesture," a foundation official explained.

NEWSDAY learned of the busts through an anonymous e-mail message that said: "There are a few in headquarters and those who have them are laughing big-time."

None of the busts were given away and most of them remain at foundation headquarters at 345 Park Ave.

And now the move is on to prevent the busts from appearing on Internet trade sites.

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So he seems like a fitting choice as a Bush cabinet member after all.

And tell me guys, wouldn't you like to have little statues of yourself to hand out to friends and business associates?