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Doyle-led trade mission to Israel leaves Friday

By ASSOCIATED PRESS Thursday, November 12, 2009 - 5:10 a.m.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Gov. Jim Doyle's trade mission to Israel is scheduled to begin on Friday.

According to the state Department of Commerce, the weeklong trade mission is designed to promote Wisconsin's water and environmental technologies, life sciences, agribusiness, and other industries.

Doyle is scheduled to address the International Water Technologies and Environmental Control Conference and Exhibition in Tel Aviv.

Doyle's office says Israel was Wisconsin's 40th largest export customer last year, making about $68 million in purchases.

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CallitasIseeit
Nov 12, 2009 at 10:35 a.m.
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Madison — Gov. Jim Doyle and his staff failed to properly account for 145 travel expenses over two years, including a $5,200 business-class flight to Ireland and a $654-a-night stay in a London hotel.

Nearly three-fourths of the time in 2007 and 2008, Doyle and his staff didn't supply receipts as required under state travel policy. By comparison, Lt. Gov. Barbara Lawton and her staff didn't provide receipts 2% of the time during the same period.

Travel records also showed Doyle spent more than $1,500 on two chauffeured vehicles in Canada. That expenditure did not violate state travel policy, however.

State policy requires employees to provide receipts for purchases made with their state-issued credit cards for flights, hotels and other expenses. That documentation was often missing from hundreds of pages of Doyle's travel records obtained under the state's open records law.-Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

CallitasIseeit
Nov 12, 2009 at 10:33 a.m.
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Why do they let the governor who refuses to itemize his travel expenses take these trips?

Opinionsforfree
Nov 12, 2009 at 9:49 a.m.

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oldtimer
Nov 12, 2009 at 8:33 a.m.
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"international water technologies" ?? Does that have anything to do with our water rates going up 30%? just wondering.

localboysince1968
Nov 12, 2009 at 6:18 a.m.
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I am all for this trip if they can truely legitimize the return on the cost of the trip in new business. However, it will probably be a boondoggle....

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