Doyle Received Tainted Cash

Interesting.

Democratic Gov. Jim Doyle received $2,000 in campaign donations from a top Democratic fund-raiser who was arrested on a grand theft charge Friday in California.

The Wisconsin Republican Party called on Doyle Friday to return the money given by Norman Hsu in July 2005 prior to the governor’s successful re-election in November 2006.

Doyle’s campaign spokesman Mike Tate said Friday, “We just became aware of this and we are reviewing our records.”

According to a campaign donation database maintained by the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign, Doyle is the only candidate in Wisconsin to have received money from Hsu.

In 1991, Hsu pleaded no contest to a single felony count of grand theft but failed to appear in court for sentencing, a revelation this week that prompted U.S. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton to return $23,000 in contributions that Hsu made to her presidential and senatorial campaigns and to her political action committee.

Hsu turned himself in Friday and was being held on a $2 million bond.

One can’t hold Doyle responsible if his donors are crooks.  It’s not like campaigns do background checks.  The question is: why was this guy donating to Doyle?