Rep. Cynthia Davis, R-O'Fallon appears to be using her campaign account to finance preparation for her next career.
Mrs. Davis paid $5,280 to the Broadcast Center, St. Louis, July 6 for a public speaking course, according to her October quarterly report filed Thursday with the Missouri Ethics Commission.
The mission of the Broadcast Center is explained on its homepage:
Broadcast Center in St. Louis, Missouri provides a practical and usable education designed to put its graduates to work in the broadcast industry in radio and television talent, production, and marketing positions.
Professional training for all positions in broadcasting
The promotional material continues:
Getting a great education and starting a rewarding career is what its all about. Broadcast Center graduates go to work as air personalities, newscasters, sports play-by-play talent, commercial and program production specialists, television anchors and field reporters, video production experts, free-lance voice talent, and virtually all other positions within the broadcast industry and allied fields (production houses, ad agencies).
Whether it's a performance-based position in front of the microphone or camera or something more "behind the scenes" such as a technical or audio/video production position, Broadcast Center can provide the training you need to get your broadcasting career started, usually within about 12 months.
Hands-on training, not classroom lectures
The reality is you can't effectively teach broadcasting skills in a traditional classroom. A classroom environment might be okay for learning about the history of broadcasting, but having that knowledge isn't likely going to get you a job in the broadcast industry. Perhaps that's why so many four-year college and university graduates with broadcasting degrees that focus primarily on broadcast history and theory end up unable to find employment in the industry.
Broadcast Center is radically different. Our focus is on developing the actual skills you'll use in a job situation. Broadcast Center students work in broadcast studios doing exactly the same things they'll do when they finish up the program and go to work in the industry. Attending Broadcast Center is very much like receiving the equivalent of on-the-job training.
The bottom line of the training, according to the website is "job placement."
According to the Ethics Commission filing, Mrs. Davis is seeking an unspecified "statewide" position in 2010 when the only statewide position available is auditor. Since two heavyweight candidates for that post on the Republican ticket, Allen Icet and Thomas Schweich, it would appear Mrs. Davis could be using her campaign money to ease the path into a new career as yet another right-wing talk show host.
How that will work is unknown since in the accompanying YouTube video she talks about how her senators won't talk to her:
2 comments:
why do you care, randy? is she breaking any law...do I detect a little envy here...
Probably she will do better than what you did than as a lie-paper reporter and editor without credibility.
After all, a politician's and a reporter's professional half-life is a function of how much they get caught lying. You certinly blew through all nine of your lives quick enough, Turner. At least Cyndee tells it like she sees it, and who really needs another professional politician anyway when they are nearly as big of liars as you journalists?
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