Base to Doyle: Do More
Drip. Drip. Drip.
It's only a matter of time before Doyle returns the Adelman money.
Doyle should give more backA Cap Times editorialGov. Jim Doyle has returned $10,000 in campaign donations from executives of a Manitowoc boat company who gave the money two days before a state panel recommended giving the firm a $1.1 million grant.
Doyle, who still must decide whether to provide the grant to the Burger Boat Co. for the construction of a boat ramp, recognized that he could not possibly aid the firm without causing a firestorm. And the 142-year-old company, which is at the forefront of the revitalization of Wisconsin's boat-building industry, is a worthy candidate for economic assistance.
So Doyle did the right thing. But, as Mike McCabe, executive director of the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign watchdog group, notes: This is merely a small step for Doyle. He has yet to go the distance for clean politics and clean government.
For instance, the Democratic governor's re-election campaign is clinging to $20,000 in donations that have been linked to the Milwaukee travel agency that received a state contract that is now the subject of federal, state and local inquiries into so-called "pay-to-play" politics. Full editorial
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Of course, Craps realizes that if he were to give all the tainted money back, he'd have roughly $8.47 left in his coffers. Maybe The Cap Times knows that some flake leftist will come to ride to the Dem's "rescue" like Falk is in the attorney general's race.
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