January 19, 2005
A state of no reform
By Don Jones
In a mass e-mail, the Doyle campaign recently highlighted newspaper quotes praising the governor's State of the State speech and asked recipients to respond with their own reactions. Here is the reply I sent to the governor's campaign:
You asked, in your e-mail, to tell you my thoughts about the State of the State speech and its coverage.
Until the governor decides to keep his promise to press for campaign reform (finance, Elections Board, Ethics Board) the rest is, essentially, useless.
He brushed over reform by simply naming it and deferring it -- again.
Failing to demand -- and lead the fight for -- clean government is a huge disappointment; he should be ashamed.
It is now 744 days since his inauguration and no reform has been accomplished.
Jim does not merit, nor will he receive, any support from me in this campaign until a tough reform bill is passed and signed into law.
(Don Jones was executive director of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin from 1983 to 1987.)
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