I was born and raised in Wisconsin, so I still have an interest in what's happening there and I am very sad. Wisconsin had a well-deserved reputation as the poster child of honest government. Well...not any more. Scott Walker and his right-wing legislature has created a government that is opaque and corrupt.
Don't like the mining laws? Well, it's easy. Just invite the mining industry to write a new law. And we can lie about how many jobs it will create (zero) and screw the environment.
Then lets get rid of open meeting laws. And lets dismantle one of the finest university systems in the nation.
But the coup de grace is the latest....Don't want to be investigated for your lawbreaking? First have a Republican judge halt the investigation. And then just to be safe lets just gut the law. Why? Because we can. Keep in mind that this law had been on the books for 165 years and is one reason the state had pretty clean government. And the charge of partisanship breaks down because Republican attorneys were among those calling for the probe. Quite simply, the only partisanship involved is the Republicans who gutted the law so they wouldn't have to break it.
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