Email date: 3/2/07
Dennis Troha, a wealthy southeast Wisconsin businessman who was leading the effort to locate a casino in Kenosha, was indicted yesterday by a federal grand jury on charges that he used family members to launder money for the purposes of making campaign contributions in excess of Wisconsin’s $10,000 limit on donations to candidates for governor.
Email date: 3/5/07
In this update:
1. Relative of high court hopeful gave maximum and then some
2. Media report: Ziegler failed to reveal conflicts of interest
3. Q & A with Democracy Campaign’s director
Email date: 3/7/07
In this update:
1. FBI doubles down on probe of state favors to casino developer
2. Ryan dumps Troha money . . . why hasn’t Doyle?
3. Women and politics forum set for March 29 in Oshkosh
Email date: 3/12/07
In this update:
1. Deeper ties between administration and Troha revealed
2. Newspaper "can’t wait to clean up Capitol stench"
Email date: 3/13/07
In this update:
1. Partisans flood money into Supreme Court race
2. More Ziegler conflicts of interest surface
Email date: 3/16/07
In this update:
1. Vote set for March 20 on Madison clean election proposal
2. March 29 Oshkosh forum to focus on women, money and politics
3. Governor ashamed to admit he attended Troha Christmas party
4. Lobbyists outnumber news reporters 80 to 1
Email date: 3/19/07
The Democracy Campaign today filed a formal request for an investigation with the state Judicial Commission over Supreme Court candidate Annette Ziegler’s conflicts of interest in numerous cases she handled as a Washington County circuit court judge.
Email date: 3/21/07
In this update:
1. Madison City Council green lights campaign reform study
2. Plot in Troha scandal thickens
3. Ziegler case an example of broken honor system
Email date: 3/23/07
In this update:
1. Money flows as high court race slides into gutter
2. Freshmen lawmakers propose Supreme Court campaign fix
3. Troha scandal takes yet another turn
4. The mystery of the vanishing law
Email date: 3/27/07
In this update:
1. Record amounts raised in high court race
2. Protecting Wisconsin’s courts from special interest pressure
3. Minnesota exploring different approach to judicial reform