A travel agency is now questioning why it lost a contract to sell airline tickets to state workers after reports that leaders at the winning company gave $20,000 to the governor’s campaign in the months surrounding the bidding process.
Gov. Jim Doyle and his administration have steadfastly maintained the contract was awarded to Milwaukee-based Adelman Travel Group fairly after the company’s final bid came in $30,000 cheaper.
(CALS Associate Dean Frank Kooistra, a member of the selection committee, is quoted.)