Wisconsin: GOP Caucus staff spent state time on campaigns
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports: Assembly Republican Caucus workers took elaborate steps to avoid being caught producing campaign materials on state time, witnesses in the criminal trial of former Assembly Speaker Scott Jensen (R-Town of Brookfield) testified Thursday.
Former caucus staff members Rhonda Baker and Eric Grant told a Dane County jury that those precautions before the 1998 and 2000 elections included:
• Putting campaign materials, including brochures and fund-raising invitations, in double-sealed envelopes before they went to the Capitol to be reviewed by GOP legislators, party leaders, aides or campaign workers.
• Whenever possible, making sure that campaign materials were delivered "by yourself or with caucus staff" to those who had requested them or must approve them, Baker said. -- JS Online:Caucus workers describe coverup