President George W. Bush will be the main attraction at a $1,000-a-plate fundraiser for Republican gubernatorial candidate U.S. Rep. Mark Green next week.
Green's campaign confirmed today that Bush will head the Milwaukee event on Tuesday.
Republicans are hoping that the event will raise about $1 million for Green's effort to unseat Democratic Gov. Jim Doyle.
Although Bush narrowly lost Wisconsin in the 2004 election, recent polls show his popularity lagging among state residents.
The conservative Wisconsin Policy Research Institute last month found that only 37 percent of state residents approved of Bush's performance, while 68 percent said they believe the nation is heading in the wrong direction.
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Democrats plan to contrast Doyle's efforts to balance the state's budget, provide health care, fund education and support embryonic stem cell research with Green's support for Bush administration policies.
"The larger question in all this is: Does Mark Green support the job this president is doing for the people of Wisconsin and the American people?" said state Democratic Party Chairman Joe Wineke.
"Only 37 percent of the people in this state think (Bush) is doing a good job and yet Mark Green has voted with him 93 percent of the time," Wineke said. "They're twins."
Wineke charged that the Milwaukee event "is clearly designed to raise boatloads of cash and Mark Green is willing to do deals with the devil to do so. This shows how desperate he is."
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