Jack Stick says he’s “the whipping boy,” the guy who became the face of the 21CT contract scandal as Texas officials pointed fingers and scrambled to save their own jobs.
“I think in December of last year, people began to feel seriously threatened and scared,” Stick said during his first sit-down interview with reporters since he was forced to resign late last year from his job as top lawyer of the state’s sprawling health agency.
“And I think they needed a sacrifice, a person who could put a face to what appeared to be a colossal screw-up, and I was that face.”
Source: Jack Stick: I was ‘the whipping boy’ The Statesman