Thursday, February 23, 2006

Jensen defense outs Jeff Wagner

the Scott Jensen trial gets better and better, and this is only the third day of a three-week circus.

The Associated Press story says the Republican Assembly caucus even did campaign work for Jeff Wagner, who lost the 1994 race for attorney general and as consolation prize calls his WTMJ radio show the "Department of Justice."

From the story, about the testimony of graphic artist Eric Grant, who testified he did almost nothing but campaign work on state time:

Jensen attorney Stephen Meyer tried to show during cross examination that caucus workers had been doing campaign work prior to 1997, when Jensen became the Assembly's top official.

Grant told Meyer that he found samples of game schedules for the Green Bay Packers and Wisconsin Badgers that featured the names of some candidates. Caucus workers created them in 1994 for several campaigns, including then-Gov. Tommy Thompson, attorney general candidate Jeff Wagner and state Rep. Scott Gunderson. Grant said he used those designs to create new Packers and Badgers schedules for the campaigns of Rep. Rob Kreibich, Mary Ann Lippert and then-Rep. Mark Green, who is now running for the GOP nomination for governor.

1 Comments:

At 3:44 PM, Blogger Dave Diamond said...

The really damning part of Grant's testimony isn't so much that he was doing the campaign work on state time, which the defense is arguing was perfectly acceptable. It's the part about them actively hiding that work, by storing files on external hard drives, double-sealing envelopes, announcing when the Chief Clerk would come by, and so on.

If they weren't doing anything wrong, why did the caucus staff take so much trouble to hide it?

 

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