Fun and games under the dome

Isn't this cute? Republican legislators and their staffs routinely broke the law, pretty much on a daily basis, by doing political work on state time. And State Rep. Scott Jensen, R-Brookfield, on trial for charges stemming from that illegal activity, trained the caucus director.

The story was written straight, but the headline writer apparently thought that kind of Capitol hi-jinks deserved a light trteatment. Hence the headline below. Caucus capers?

Jury is told of caucus capers
Man who campaigned on state time says he learned from Jensen

By PATRICK MARLEY and STEVEN WALTERS

Madison - The former director of the Assembly Republican Caucus told jurors Friday that he learned how to do his job - which included campaigning on state time - from Scott Jensen, the former Assembly speaker accused of directing aides to campaign on the taxpayer's dime.

Before Jensen was elected to the state Assembly in 1992, he served as caucus director. Ray Carey said that when he was hired as caucus director in 1994, he learned much of the job from Jensen.

Often, that work consisted of campaigning on state time, Carey said, acknowledging that he drafted numerous campaign memos and a campaign handbook on state time, using state resources.