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Article: DOT official's fund-raiser questioned; Engineering firms invited to barbecue

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October 29, 2005
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Madison The No. 2 official of the state Department of Transportation organized a fund-raiser last month for Gov. Jim Doyle and invited dozens of employees of engineering firms that do more than $100 million a year in work for the department.

DOT Deputy Secretary Ruben Anthony Jr. said Friday that he did not believe the firms felt pressured to attend the Sept. 8 barbecue fund- raiser.

Anthony insisted he played no role in awarding contracts but acknowledged that he took no steps to assure those firms' representatives that getting state contracts was not contingent upon attending the fund-raiser.

"I didn't do anything to try to give anybody that impression" that donations were tied to state ...

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