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John Burke, the president of Trek Bicycle and brother of Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mary Burke, criticized a new campaign ad by Republican Gov. Scott Walker.

In an interview Thursday, John Burke said the implications made in the new ad targeting his sister and Trek, a Waterloo ﻿ bicycle company started by his father, are false.

John Burke said he hadn’t planned to publicly comment on the governor’s race but felt the need to speak up after seeing “Trek being raked over the coals for things that are false.”

﻿ Walker’s campaign released the ad on Wednesday. It features a woman reading a bedtime story about Mary Burke to two children, and accuses her of outsourcing Wisconsin jobs to countries that pay workers — including women and children — $2 an hour.

“Mary, Mary, quite contrary. How does your fortune grow?” the woman reads. “By making millions of dollars sending jobs overseas.”

Mary Burke is a ﻿former Trek executive ﻿. Her brother said that ﻿she did not make manufacturing decisions — he did.

“The reality is that Mary made no sourcing decisions at Trek,” he said.