{"id":20675,"date":"2013-11-15T13:47:16","date_gmt":"2013-11-15T18:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=20675"},"modified":"2013-11-15T13:47:16","modified_gmt":"2013-11-15T18:47:16","slug":"former-florida-schools-chief-tony-bennett-facing-indiana-ethics-complaint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2013\/11\/15\/former-florida-schools-chief-tony-bennett-facing-indiana-ethics-complaint\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Florida Schools Chief Tony Bennett Facing Indiana Ethics Complaint"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_17864\"  class=\"wp-caption module image left\" style=\"max-width: 291px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"Former Florida education commissioner Tony Bennett.\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2013\/04\/Tony-Bennett.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17864\" alt=\"Former Florida education commissioner Tony Bennett.\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2013\/04\/Tony-Bennett.jpg\" width=\"291\" height=\"296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2013\/04\/Tony-Bennett.jpg 291w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2013\/04\/Tony-Bennett-60x60.jpg 60w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 291px) 100vw, 291px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Jordan Michael \/ StateImpact Florida<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Florida education commissioner Tony Bennett.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Indiana&#8217;s Inspector General has filed an ethics complaint against former Florida education commissioner Tony Bennett for using state computers for campaign business in 2010.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.journalgazette.net\/article\/20130911\/NEWS07\/130919862\/1026\/LOCAL04\">The Associated Press reported documents showed<\/a> Bennett had kept a database of campaign donors on state computers and had asked staff to parse campaign speeches by Democratic opponent Glenda Ritz:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This summer, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.journalgazette.net\/article\/20130911\/NEWS07\/130919862\/1026\/LOCAL04\" target=\"_blank\">the Associated Press published documents<\/a> showing Bennett\u2019s team kept a database of Republican donors on Indiana Department of Education computers.<\/p>\n<p>Bennett, a Republican, served one term as state superintendent before being ousted by current schools chief Glenda Ritz. He <a title=\"Tony Bennett Resigns From Top Education Job In Florida\" href=\"http:\/\/indianapublicmedia.org\/stateimpact\/2013\/08\/01\/report-tony-bennett-resigning-top-education-job-in-florida\/\" target=\"_blank\">resigned his post<\/a> as Florida Commissioner of Education earlier this year after media reports revealed his team changed the school letter grades of several schools here in Indiana, <a title=\"Why Christel House Still Sticks Out After Friday\u2019s Report On Bennett\u2019s A-F Changes\" href=\"http:\/\/indianapublicmedia.org\/stateimpact\/2013\/09\/09\/christel-house-sticks-fridays-report-bennetts-af\/\" target=\"_blank\">including a charter founded by a prominent campaign donor<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThroughout my time in public service I made every effort to be cognizant of and to follow state rules and guidelines for elected officials,\u201d Bennett said in a statement. \u201cI understand no conclusions have been made in this matter and I look forward to working with the Ethics Commission and the Inspector General\u2019s office to demonstrate proper adherence to state rules and guidelines.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Head on over to our colleagues at <a href=\"http:\/\/indianapublicmedia.org\/stateimpact\/2013\/11\/14\/indiana-inspector-general-files-ethics-complaint-tony-bennett\/\">StateImpact Indiana to read the full complaint<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indiana&#8217;s Inspector General has filed an ethics complaint against former Florida education commissioner Tony Bennett for using state computers for campaign business in 2010. The Associated Press reported documents showed Bennett had kept a database of campaign donors on state computers and had asked staff to parse campaign speeches by Democratic opponent Glenda Ritz: This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[452],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20675"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20675"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20677,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20675\/revisions\/20677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}