Group: Most Wisconsin Candidates Failed To Fill Out Issue Survey
Doyle, Green Didn't Participate
Updated: 1:49 pm CDT October 19, 2006
MADISON, Wis. -- A majority of the state's candidates for office refused to complete and return a nonpartisan voter education group's survey seeking their opinions on a variety of issues.Project Vote Smart said on Thursday that 80 percent of Wisconsin's candidates, including the two main party candidates for governor, refused to return the National Political Awareness Test.Only 48 percent of congressional candidates and 17 percent of state legislative committees candidates filled out the survey.Both Democratic Gov. Jim Doyle and his Republican challenger, U.S. Rep. Mark Green, didn't participate, but Green Party candidate Nelson Eisman did.In the hotly contested 8th Congressional District race, Republican John Gard returned the survey, but his Democratic challenger Steve Kagen didn't.
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