MSPs had earlier been told by Steve Walker, operations director with Stagecoach, that a "wider problem" for bus firms would be getting to the bridge from both sides of the Firth.

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Following that briefing, the President called the Governor of Wisconsin, Scott Walker, Oak Creek Mayor Steve Scaffidi, and Trustee of the Sikh Temple Charanjeet Singh to express his condolences for the lives lost and his concern for those who were injured.

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However, in the district of Former State Assembly Speaker Mike Huebsch, now working in the Walker government as Secretary of Administration, Democrat Steve Doyle took 54% of the vote.

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