Stop Me Before I Kill Again

I finally got around to reading Governor Doyle's press release highlighting his ethics reform package, and am I ever glad I did.

Not only does the Governor want state law to prohibit him from shaking down special interest groups for money during the entire state budget process, he wants to prohibit all state office incumbents and CHALLENGERS from raising money too.

If state elected officials want to voluntary opt out of raising money during the budget process because they can't trust themselves to the right thing, that's fine, but prohibiting challengers from raising money for six to eight months is shameless incumbent protection.