TD has update on campaign sign issue
The Times-Dispatch’s Will Jones has an update on the 3rd District campaign issue involving the use of incarcerated youth in a state job-training program to produce cards and signs for candidate Jonathan Davis: Those concerns, stemming in part from Davis’ role as an instructor, are prompting state officials to look at restricting Youth Industries from accepting […]
The Times-Dispatch’s Will Jones has an update on the 3rd District campaign issue involving the use of incarcerated youth in a state job-training program to produce cards and signs for candidate Jonathan Davis:
Those concerns, stemming in part from Davis’ role as an instructor, are prompting state officials to look at restricting Youth Industries from accepting political jobs in the future.
“It’s a good program. We want to see it continue. We want to make sure this kind of thing doesn’t happen again,” said Bruce A. Twyman, a spokesman for the Department of Juvenile Justice.
Davis said he has not been disciplined and that he insisted on making the payment.
“We’re really caught in the middle of a policy change in this whole matter,” he said. “I’m happy to do whatever it takes to make this whole matter right.”
Davis teaches advertising design for the Youth Industries job-training and apprenticeship program, which was developed by the state departments of Juvenile Justice and Correctional Education. Items made and services provided can be sold publicly with the revenues supporting the program.
Davis said he used four wards in an after-school apprenticeship group to print cards and signs for his campaign. He has not specified the number of materials made. He’s challenging incumbent Chris A. Hilbert for City Council’s 3rd District seat in the Nov. 4 election.
Read the complete story at the Times-Dispatch.
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