“We learned today that the CEO who is on leave was approached by Mayor Pugh to buy her books and then he allowed the system to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on them or, at best, he looked the other way,” said Del. Nic Kipke, the Anne Arundel County Republican who is House minority leader. “With that in mind, and with all of the other questionable contracts, I believe it’s inappropriate that he’s on leave with pay.”