Walker skips luxury suite plans

After too many bad questions were asked about plans to use a luxury suite at the Kohl Center as part of a political fundraiser, Scott Walker's campaign abandoned plans to use the suite. WKOW-TV in Madison reports:

Walker Ditches Luxury Suite

Wed 02/22/2006 -

Officials with Republican Scott Walker's campaign for Governor dropped plans to host political donors in a Kohl Center luxury suite during a Wisconsin men's basketball game after 27 News asked who was sponsoring the fundraising event.

"We did not use the suite for the event," campaign manager Bruce Pfaff told 27 News.

"It was an internal campaign decision," Pfaff said.

Pfaff denied the decision had anything to do with concerns raised over the possibility the halftime suite access at the Feb. 15 game amounted to an illegal, corporate campaign gift.

Records released to 27 News showed thirty five of the Kohl Center's thirty six luxury suites are leased to corporations.

Wisconsin election law prohibits corporations from making direct or indirect contributions to political candidates.

The whole story.

UPDATE: There goes Bruce Pfaff again, contradicting his candidate. To follow up on the WKOW report, Pfaff tells WKOW it was "an internal campaign decision" not to use the suite, but Scott Walker in his blog says that they were just having too much fun and didn't want to leave the action.

From the Walker blog:

Two supporters donated tickets and we had a fundraiser (tickets were face value and rest was donation to our campaign). Since the seats were so good and our supporters wanted to stay near the action, we never went to a suite (although I did buy a brat and a soda on the way in at one of the concession stands).