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The Canadian bank mentioned above is Bank of Montreal, which owns Chicago-based Harris Bank. Harris management will take over M&I operations when the sale is complete. The sale of M&I is still pending, but is scheduled to close in the 3rd quarter of 2011. I am a Harris customer. I sent a message to their customer service dept. and asked about M&I's support of Walker. I told them that if Harris supports Walker, I would close my accounts there. That earned me a call from the president of my local branch. She explained to me that the bank itself cannot support political campaigns. However, M&I passed the hat for Walker. I told her that this level of involvement with the Walker campaign is a public embarrassment to Harris. We certainly can't blame Harris for what M&I is currently doing, but they are definitely in a position to lean on M&I senior management and tell them to stop collecting money to support fascists. If you're a Harris Bank customer, contact them and tell them you'll be watching what they do when Walker faces the inevitable recall election. That, and tell them to show the door to Kuester and his management team. We can vote with our wallets, too.