A former legislative aide to then Assembly Speaker Scott Jensen, R-Waukesha, testified today that she was paid by state taxpayers out of Assembly Republican Caucus funds in the summer and fall of 2000 when her entire workday was spent on Jensen’s re-election campaign.
Leigh Himebauch Searl testified that she worked in Jensen’s office in full- or part-time roles while also attending classes at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
When she graduated in May of 2000, she said, she took a full-time job in Jensen’s office and was soon told by another Jensen staff member, Jodie Tierney, that her office would be relocated to the Republican Party of Wisconsin headquarters a few blocks from the State Capitol.