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Gov. Doyle: Statement Regarding DOA Travel Contract
1/25/2006
Contact: Anne Lupardus, Office of the Governor, 608-261-2162

Governor Jim Doyle today released the following statement:
"I've made it very clear that I have zero tolerance for any ethical lapses in my Administration.
"But I also have a lot of confidence in the procedures that the Department of Administration has in place, including making sure that career civil servants and not political appointees make decisions about contracts, and that contracts should go to the lowest bidder.
"I've certainly never met Ms. Thompson, and from what I understand the contract was awarded to the lowest bidder, a Wisconsin company, and actually saved taxpayers $30,000.
"I'm a former prosecutor, and I have a lot of respect for prosecutors and the job they do. We take this very seriously. But we also have to be very careful that election year politics and partisanship don't take the place of fairness - and that a longtime civil servant isn't used as a political football."

CAN THEY HONESTLY BELIEVE THIS STORY CAN BE FLUSHED AWAY WITH THIS SMELLY OF A RESPONSE? He's basically saying that nobody did anything wrong, that this is an illegitimate indictment, and that it's simply a political attack. Does that sound like the comments of someone shocked and appalled by potential wrongdoing in his Administration? It sounds much more like a defensive and flustered guilty team in circle-the-wagons coverup mode. Not only have the handled this pathetically from a PR standpoint, as SPICE point out this morning, but they are also acting incredibly guilty. An "it wasn't us, it was her," defense would have given them a little more traction. DOYLE STINKS and everyone should start being really nice to Mark Green and Scott Walker.