Madison: $30 million dollars-that is one prediction of how much money will be spent in the race for Governor by the candidates, the parties, and outside influence groups. The question is, where is that money coming from?

The ultimate prize at the end of this election is to be sworn in as Governor of Wisconsin. The way to get there is to run campaign ads, and that requires a lot of money.

That's what gets Mike McCabe nervous. McCabe runs the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign, an independent group pushing for clean elections and public financing of campaigns. "The two major party candidates for Governor in Wisconsin are overwhelmingly relying on a very tiny elite group of wealthy contributors to finance their campaigns."

At the end of June Democrat Jim Doyle had more than $5 million in the bank and Republican Mark Green had $3 million.

Both campaigns like to talk about their grassroots support and the 1,000's of individual donors, but most of the money is coming from just a few hundred extremely wealthy people who gave more than $1,000. "This is a state of 5 million people, yet 364 people provided more than half of the campaign contributions to the Green campaign. A little bit over 370 people gave ¾ of the money Gov. Doyle got from individual contributors," says McCabe.

Besides the heavy concentration of donors, McCabe doesn't like that nearly 20% of Doyle's contributions have come from out of state donors. "What it says is that the Governor has pretty much tapped out the big donors here in Wisconsin and he's decided to knock on doors nationally."

But the Doyle campaign says there's nothing wrong with that. "There are a lot of folks all across the country who recognize what's at stake in this election and a big thing that's at stake is stem cell research," says Anson Kaye, Doyle Campaign Spokesman.

McCabe says Green has his own problems, including having too much Political Action Campaign money left over from his Congressional races. "He's supposed to abide by a limit of $485,000. He's already $180,000 over that limit. He should have to get rid of that money."

A spokesman for the Green campaign says the State Elections Board has already set a precedent allowing Green to keep that money.

In the end, McCabe says neither man can claim the upper hand in the ethics and finance debate. "There's a lot of taint to go around here and neither candidate has clean hands."