Insurance Commissioner Robert Wooley said Wednesday that he didn't swindle taxpayers by having the state buy him two luxury vehicles in two years. Wooley characterized the controversy as "a pimple on a bee's ass." He made his first public comments on the controversy outside a committee room at the State Capitol, where a panel of lawmakers rapidly reviewed his department's $28.1 million budget proposal for the upcoming year. The budget didn't draw any questions from the House Appropriations Committee. The committee's chairman, Rep. John Alario, D-Westwego, attributed the speediness to the fact that the department relies on fees and self-generated...