Campaign Financing Broad Reform, Now Tired of Being Accused of Being Too Cozy with Special Interests? Public Financing of Elections Would Take Care of That.

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Gov. Jim Doyle's conversion from a believer in having a citizens board appoint the head of the Department of Natural Resources could very well be a matter of a mind legitimately changed.

But if the governor is finding that argument a hard sell, it's because $4.14 million from interests opposing this change have flowed into his campaign coffers since 2003. This is according to figures released last week by the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign and reported by the Journal Sentinel.

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Campaign Financing Broad Reform, Now Tired of Being Accused of Being Too Cozy with Special Interests? Public Financing of Elections Would Take Care of That.

The state's governor has appointed the secretary since 1995. The current governor, as attorney general, ...

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