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Bernard Hlavac is 75 years old, is a former Republican and used to work as an executive with Sentry Insurance.

He also hopes Gov. Scott Walker loses to Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett on Tuesday.

On Page 5A of Sunday's Journal Sentinel, Hlavac lays out in detail why he thinks Walker should be recalled on Tuesday.

He said he took out the same ad in all of the Gannett newspapers in Wisconsin and plans to run the ad in Monday's Wisconsin State Journal.

He declined to say what he spent on the ads. He said he is wealthy and didn't care what it cost him.

"I can't think of a better way to spend my money than on this," he said in a telephone interview from his Stevens Point home. "And I don't care what people think."

Hlavac says in the ad that he wrote it for his daughter, a school psychologist in Madison, and "all teachers and staff who have been so maligned and savaged by Walker and the Republican Party whose aim is to destroy unions in Wisconsin and throughout the country."

Hlavac said he supported the Republican Party for years, but he said the party had became a party that favors the wealthy and "is based on fear."

Hlavac provided his email address in the ad. He said he believed he received several hundred emails in response.

"They were mostly very good," he said. "Some were bad, some were very bad."

Hlavac said he believed Tuesday's election will be close.

"I'm very worried about the outcome. I want to be optimistic, but I am realistic," he said.