STEVENSON, Wash. – Skamania County auditor J. Michael Garvison traveled to Washington, D.C., Florida, Las Vegas and even Canada all on the taxpayers’ dime, expense reports showed Friday.

Garvison is currently under investigation by the state for allegedly misusing $83,000 on travel expenses over the last two years, $32,000 just this year alone for a county with just under 11,000 people.

Garvison turned over his travel vouchers since 2005 to former Skamania County prosecutor Bradley Andersen after being fined and ordered to by a judge. Last year he was reimbursed for $51,000 in travel expenses.

“When you consider the previous auditor in 2002 had a complete travel budget of $5,000 then Mike Garvison spends $51,000 in one year, that is extraordinary,” Andersen said.

This year Garvison has asked for $32,000 for trips to Las Vegas, Washington, D.C., Montreal, Canada, and Florida - once, during the same month his daughter posted family pictures online from a vacation in Florida.

Then the very next month he went to Florida again and charged the county $5,000 to attend a state conference, Andersen said.

County travel is supposed to be for official county business, but Andersen questioned why then Garvison flew to Canada first-class or to San Diego for an “elected official event.”

But the receipt showed it was an immigration training conference.

The vouchers also showed he went to Washington, D.C. six times.

“D.C. for auditor issues,” said Andersen referring to the vouchers. “It’s a county auditor. We have a county of 10,000 people. There’s no auditor issues back in Washington, D.C. that he needs to be auditing for.”

Records show for travel within the state Garvison charged taxpayers $2,400 for a one-day meeting in Olympia. Records show taxpayers also bought him breakfast and lunch on the same day he went to a free pancake feed.

Additionally, Andersen said Garvison padded his mileage, billing the county 170 miles for a trip MapQuest says is only 39 miles away all while driving a county Jeep.

Allegedly he has also billed taxpayers for other personal electronics including three laptops.

Some of the expenses were racked up while Garvison was running for re-election.

He also got his MBA online to the tune of $8,000 and some residents said he’s trying to use that degree to get other jobs, which is something they said he bragged about online.

Garvison said all of it is justified.

“Everything has receipts and everything has a valid purpose,” he said. “The state’s auditor’s office reviewed many of these things. We just had a clean audit.”