Strike One:

Kind backs staged financial bailout

the Tribune staff | Posted: Saturday, September 27, 2008 12:00 am



U.S. Rep. Ron Kind says that the constituents he has heard from are split 50-50 on a proposed $700 billion financial bailout: half say "no," the other half "hell no."



He called it "a lot of justifiable anger at this point."



But Kind, a La Crosse Democrat, said Friday that a staged bailout that limits the

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