Jensen quotes
10:33 AM 10/18/02

What he said then ...

Assembly Speaker Scott Jensen, writing in May 2001 in response to the Wisconsin State Journal's reporting about legislative staffers doing campaign work on state time: "The Assembly Republican team has gone to extraordinary lengths to separate government work from campaign work. We insist that employees who wish to campaign do so on their own time and not on the taxpayer's dime."

What they're saying now ...

From an interview with former Jensen staffer Carrie Hoeper Richard, as related in Friday's criminal complaint: "Richard estimates that for the first six months of her employment in the Jensen Capitol office, she spent 50 percent of her time on Jensen campaign-related work. After the first six months Richard estimated that she spent approximately 80 percent of her time in the Jensen Capitol office doing Jensen campaign-related work. ... Richard never heard Jensen warn anyone in the Jensen Capitol office directly not to do campaign work on State property or during State time."