The plaque just inside the front door of Penn College’s spectacular Madigan Library contains this message to former State Representative Brett Feese: “Your tenacity, skill and leadership provided the resources necessary for our dream to become a reality. We will be forever grateful.”
Now that a jury has determined that Rep. Feese employed that same tenacity, skill and leadership to illegally divert millions of taxpayer dollars to a project to develop high-tech campaign tools to help GOP candidates, mightn’t it be time for Penn College to rethink that message? Leadership implies followers, and surely Penn College does not want to encourage its students to follow in the path of Rep. Feese, who was just convicted of 38 counts of theft, conspiracy, and conflict of interest. And although the steering of taxpayer dollars to Penn College was indeed of benefit to the college and to the broader community, that seems insufficient; the charities that made substantial profits from investments with Bernie Madoff in the early years are no longer thanking him now.
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The plaque just inside the front door of Penn College’s spectacular Madigan Library contains this message to former State Representative Brett Feese: “Your tenacity, skill and leadership provided the resources necessary for our dream to become a reality. We will be forever grateful.”
Now that a jury has determined that Rep. Feese employed that same tenacity, skill and leadership to illegally divert millions of taxpayer dollars to a project to develop high-tech campaign tools to help GOP candidates, mightn’t it be time for Penn College to rethink that message? Leadership implies followers, and surely Penn College does not want to encourage its students to follow in the path of Rep. Feese, who was just convicted of 38 counts of theft, conspiracy, and conflict of interest. And although the steering of taxpayer dollars to Penn College was indeed of benefit to the college and to the broader community, that seems insufficient; the charities that made substantial profits from investments with Bernie Madoff in the early years are no longer thanking him now.