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Green tries to raise cash quickly Campaign says it will fight order to return $450,000 By STEVEN WALTERS swalters@journalsentinel.com Posted: Aug. 31, 2006 Madison - Republican gubernatorial candidate Mark Green on Thursday launched a 72-hour blitz to raise $450,000 and prepared to go to court to fight an Elections Board order that his campaign divest itself of that amount and more. Green and his campaign manager, Mark Graul, who issued the emergency e-mail appeal for cash, pondered how to rebound from Wednesday's Elections Board order to divest $467,844 in campaign donations from political action committees not registered in Wisconsin. Neither...

Months after landing lucrative state contracts, executives from two out-of-state consulting firms gave donations totaling nearly $45,000 to Gov. Jim Doyle's re-election campaign.The donations to Doyle marked the first time that anyone from either company - Chicago-based Equis Corp. and Indianapolis-based Crowe Chizek - gave significant cash to any candidate in Wisconsin, according to an analysis of campaign finance records by the nonpartisan Wisconsin Democracy Campaign.In the case of Equis Corp., the firm's president and his wife gave Doyle nearly the maximum contribution allowed under state law - $10,000 each - less than a year after the state approved a...