July 20, 2005: Headlines: Figures: COS - Tunisia: Politics: State Government: Duluth News Tribune: Doyle has more than $3 million in campaign chest
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July 20, 2005: Headlines: Figures: COS - Tunisia: Politics: State Government: Duluth News Tribune: Doyle has more than $3 million in campaign chest
Doyle has more than $3 million in campaign chest
Democratic Gov. Jim Doyle already has $3.5 million ready to pour into his re-election bid, more than double his richest GOP rival and setting the stage for another record-breaking campaign in 2006, reports filed Wednesday showed. Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle and his wife served as Peace Corps Volunteers in Tunisia in the 1960's.
Doyle has more than $3 million in campaign chest
Doyle has more than $3 million in campaign chest
TODD RICHMOND
Associated Press
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MADISON, Wis. - Democratic Gov. Jim Doyle already has $3.5 million ready to pour into his re-election bid, more than double his richest GOP rival and setting the stage for another record-breaking campaign in 2006, reports filed Wednesday showed.
His Republican opponents, Mark Green and Scott Walker, had a combined $2.2 million in the bank, the reports showed. Green, a Green Bay congressman had $1.7 million in the bank, with $1.3 million of that coming from his federal campaign account. Walker, Milwaukee County executive, was a distant third with $502,039 in the bank.
With more than a year before the first vote is cast, Doyle already has generated more than half of the $5.9 million he spent during the 2002 race for governor.
That race was the most expensive gubernatorial contest in state history. Doyle, former Republican Gov. Scott McCallum, former congressman Tom Barrett, Dane County Executive Kathleen Falk and bar owner Ed Thompson combined to spend $18.8 million, obliterating the old record of $8.1 million.
Spending in 2006 easily will eclipse the 2002 record, said Mike McCabe, executive director of the government watchdog group Wisconsin Democracy Campaign.
"It's just nuts," McCabe said. "The price tag on the office is about to go up and go up pretty sharply. Money has become everything in politics."
The "obscene" amounts of cash show yet again that state politics is out of the average Joe's reach, McCabe said. Candidates can't just collect donations from friends and neighbors anymore, he said; they must sell themselves to rich special interest groups who can write them six-figure checks and expect big favors in return.
"There are strings attached to those contributions," McCabe said.
Doyle raised $1.4 million between Jan. 1 and June 30. Green raised $678,886 and Walker $605,403 during the same time, according to the reports filed with the state Elections Board.
The governor's money shows people around the state support him, said Jessica Erickson, a spokeswoman for the state Democratic Party.
"Gov. Doyle has had to make a lot of tough choices in these difficult fiscal times," Erickson said. "The governor is gratified by the widespread continued support he has received from people all over Wisconsin."
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