Doyle ally's group gets key subcontracts / State directed W-2 agencies to award the deals
Source: STEVE SCHULTZE, Journal Sentinel (WI), Jan. 26, 2006
State officials have ordered three Wisconsin Works agencies to provide subcontracts worth nearly $500,000 to a start-up job development agency with close ties to Gov. Jim Doyle, an agency that has failed to meet its goals under a special no-bid $700,000 state contract issued last year. The firm, Milwaukee Job Development Inc., was incorporated in April with a board of directors headed by former state Commerce Secretary Cory Nettles, a Doyle ally. The company failed to meet any of its 2005 goals, which included assessing 1,500 unemployed or underemployed people and placing 540 of them in jobs.