Belling reported today that yesterday, during the height of the flood crisis, I-94 closing, Hwy. 83 in trouble, Doyle played golf at University Ridge for a Doyle fund raiser. $1,250 per head.
Can you imagine if a Republican governor did this? Naturally, no mention of this in the drive-by media. The hypocricy never ceases to amaze.
UPDATE: Looks like the political reporter in Madistan, a certain Steve Walters got roused off his bar stool long enough to print the following.
Madison – Democratic Gov. Jim Doyle spent part of Tuesday at his annual campaign golf outing, while also coordinating state government’s efforts to fight flooding and get federal aid to help pay for damages, a spokesman said today.
Doyle spokesman Lee Sensenbrenner said the governor attended “part of” his campaign’s sixth annual golf outing at University Ridge Golf Course in Verona, which had a suggested contribution of $1,250 per golfer. Doyle has said he will decide later this year whether to seek a third term.
Sensenbrenner said Doyle arrived at the golf outing in the morning and left before 2 p.m. Later that day, he conducted a briefing for reporters on flooding problems resulting from severe storms and downpours that soaked the state over the weekend and caused a rupture that emptied Lake Delton. The governor returned to the golf outing later in the day, the spokesman added.
But Sensenbrenner said no response to the flooding was hampered by Doyle’s stop to visit his campaign supporters, since the governor was also talking to National Guard officers, representatives of the Federal Emergency Management Administration and cabinet secretaries, including Natural Resources Secretary Matt Frank, about flooding-related problems on Tuesday.
“I think it’s important to put it into context,” Sensenbrenner said.
He said Doyle flew around the state on Monday, seeing Lake Delton and other flooding damage and meeting with families who had lost their homes and other property.
At 6:30 this morning, Doyle was briefed by phone on flooding and related emergency problems by National Guard Gen. Donald Dunbar, Sensenbrenner said. And Doyle met this afternoon with local government officials and emergency workers concerned about the Phantom Lake dam near Mukwonago, he said.
State Republican Party Chairman Reince Priebus criticized Doyle for taking time to raise campaign cash after the flooding.
“With (Democratic presidential candidate) Barack Obama in the state tomorrow, Obama’s top campaign staffer, Jim Doyle, gave voters a glimpse of the Democrats’ priorities this year – politics over Wisconsin families,” Priebus said in a statement.
Walter may have gotten off the bar stool but he hasn’t removed his “Democratic Kneepads” if you know what I mean.
