By John Solomon
How the government's punishing of the exposure of official wrongdoing can linger for years

Just five weeks after voters ousted him from office, Tony Bennett already has a new gig.
"Florida couldn't have landed a bigger rock star in terms of the education community," said Adam Emerson, a Florida-based analyst with the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, a conservative education think tank. "The evening Tony Bennett lost, the wheels started moving in Florida. Indiana and Louisiana had taken a bigger spotlight [in education reform], but this is the jolt that Florida needs to create its own buzz."