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From Milwaukee's Spivak and Bice, 6 days after you read it here first....

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No one seemed as outraged by GOP gubernatorial candidate and County Executive Scott Walker's statewide Harley ride last week than University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor Dennis Dresang.

Dresang blasted Walker's second-annual "Executive's Ride" as pure politics and ripped the Republican's giveaway of freebies to outstate media.

"The fact that this is a tour for a gubernatorial candidate who is using his county position and county money to make the tour and providing $500 worth of gifts to the media - it just doesn't look right," he said.

What the outstate media didn't say, however, is that Dresang is a frequent, though small, contributor to various Democrats, including Gov. Jim Doyle, the guy Walker hopes to unseat. According to the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign's Web site, he has given $350 to Doyle since 1997, including $150 during his 2002 bid for the state's top office.

Not big bucks, but as Dresang might say, it just doesn't look right.

From the July 12, 2005, editions of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel