Jim Doyle

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good afternoon everybody this is nick with governor don siegelman and our special guest governor jim doyle of wisconsin uh we just want to say hello and governor doyle thank you so much for being on the podcast we really appreciate it

I'm really pleased to be here.

I've known Governor Siegelman for many years, dating back to our years before governor, and so I'm happy to be here, and I'm happy to see him have had much of this exposed on what happened.

Well, let's just get let's just jump in there.

So, you know, this is to the audience, you know, every case in this series has taken years to unravel.

Governor Jim Doyle's took 26 minutes in a 2000 in 2006, a member of his own administration was convicted and imprisoned in a case Republican used to attack him in the middle of his reelection campaign.

and it's all the more remarkable that he won anyway.

another example I want to just raise is.

the U.S. attorney in Milwaukee covering Wisconsin, he was marked for extinction because he wasn't pursuing a case against somebody that worked in Jim Doyle's cabinet, Georgia Thompson.

And that once he started moving against georgia thompson the uh the the he was taking off the endangered species list so you know it uh yeah but there was it was there's so much there was so much politics at play during this time that rogue was the you know quote bush's brain

um and um although you have to wonder about a guy whose nickname is fart blossom

Besides Tommy and

Jim Doyle.

And J.B. Van Hollen and Doyle.

Right.

He was able to tell voters she had never tried a case and that didn't sit well with voters.

And it was enough in a very bad Republican year for J.B. Van Hollen to win.

Jim Doyle, some of your listeners may not know this or remember this.

One of your very popular hosts on this show, Jeff Wagner, ran for attorney general in 1994.