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May 30, 2006
Pushing vouchers from prison?It must be getting tough to find advocates for school vouchers. In a story one might expect to find in The Onion, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel columnists Cary Spivak and Dan Bice bring us this gem about the employment future of former Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Scott Jensen, who soon begins serving time following felony convictions for directing legislative staff to campaign on state time.
Jensen earned $114,035 last year as director of state projects for a national voucher advocacy organization that released this statement last week: "The Alliance for School Choice will continue to employ Scott Jensen so long as he is eligible to work and has not exhausted his right to appeal the verdict against him."
Spivak and Bice report:
Unsure whether that means he will stay on the payroll once he is locked up - he is scheduled to begin his 15-month prison sentence on July 15 - we rang up Laura Devaney, the flack for the Phoenix-based group, which promotes charter schools and private school vouchers. She told us to call back when Jensen is officially in the slammer.
"You'd have to ask me when that happens, only because honestly I don't have an answer," she said. "It's up to the courts if he is eligible (to work)."
Eligible to work while in prison? What kind of voucher advocacy could be done from behind bars? Bizarre.
Posted May 30, 2006 12:30 PM | Privatization & Choice
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Posted by: JimMc on May 30, 2006 3:25 PM
Perhaps he can shift his focus to lobbying for charter prisons and private prison vouchers:
"I'll never reach my potential in this oppressive public prison! Waa!"
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