When a death row inmate sent a letter to the Gaston Gazette taunting taxpayers for keeping him in a life of “leisure,” WTVD Television asked Mitch Kokai, John Locke Foundation Director of Communications, for reaction. Kokai focused on the broken system of capital punishment. He also discussed the week’s top state government news with Curtis Wright on the WAAV/WFNC Radio morning show. WNCN Television mentioned JLF in a story about Americans For Prosperity’s State of the Union viewing party at the Locke Foundation office. Vice President for Outreach Becki Gray headed to Jefferson to discuss state political developments with We The People of Ashe County. In an Anson Record guest column, state Rep. Frank McGuirt cited JLF reports on education jobs. (The John Locke Foundation, a right-wing organization, issued a report late last week that they claimed showed that the number of state-supported teachers had increased between 2011 and 2012. They claimed the drop in the number of educators was the fault of the federal government.)