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Article: Bucher won't run for attorney general GOP's top prospect cites personal, professional reasons
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- April 11, 1998
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District Attorney Paul Bucher bowed out of a bid for state
attorney general, declining overtures from Gov. Tommy Thompson and
the state's top Republicans.
"I analyzed this from every possible perspective," Bucher said in
an interview Friday. "I love this job. I didn't have the burning
desire I need to leave this office and run a statewide campaign. It
came down to 50-50. To make a monumental change, I need more than
50-50."
His decision came exactly one week after he said publicly that he
was seriously considering a run against Democratic incumbent Jim
Doyle. At that time, two of the governor's closest allies Assembly
Speaker Scott Jensen and James Klauser, the state's second-most ...