Democracy Campaign's new math

Love the way the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign rolled everyone together in its news release:

Madison - The three Republican and Democratic candidates for governor next year have accepted nearly $23,000 since 2003 from Illinois contributors who have been convicted or indicted of extortion, fraud, bribery or other crimes, or who are connected to state and federal criminal investigations, the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign has found.

If you bother to read it and do a little math, even on your fingers, you'll find Jim Doyle's share is $6,500 while Walker and Green have more than $24,000 between them, counting contributions from wives which are also listed. Of that, about $14,000 went to Green and $10,000 to Walker. Of course, that doesn't count other money Nick Hurtgen and friends raised for Walker, which totaled at least $25,000.

Nowhere does WDC offer those totals or breakdown, just the $23,000 total.

The Journal Sentinel story at least split them up, but didn't count the wives and came up with its own totals. It also pointed out that Green has taken nearly $30,000 in political action money from Rep. Tom DeLay, who is under indictment on money laundering charges, as we have reported here several dozen times. Green continues to minimize that money, claiming that only $2,000 of it was transferred into his governor's campaign account. But he should be held accountable for disposing of the total amount, as several other Republican House members have done. There are any number of ways to do it, and it will continue to be an issue in the 2006 campaign unless he does.