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The New York Times: Unions subdued, Walker turns to colleges
By Monica Davey and Tamar Lewin
Critics said the proposal would burnish Walkers conservative credentials.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/05/us/politics/unions-subdued-scott-walker-turns-to-tenure-at-wisconsin-colleges.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=second-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0
MBS
(9,688 posts)has destroyed the state of Wisconsin.
BillZBubb
(10,650 posts)Walker is the symptom, not the cause.
MBS
(9,688 posts)The voters who voted for him (though this is half the electorate, not all of it. ) , and the legislators and the (horrible) supreme court judges who support his agenda, and the voters who voted for those legislators. Having thought of Wisconsin most of my life as a good-government state, I have to remind myself that it's also the state that gave us Joseph McCarthy.
frazzled
(18,402 posts)the University of Wisconsinone of the nation's premier institutions of higher education. And that will eventually destroy it.
That, in turn ... leads to all kinds of things that will impact the state in many areas. Are we headed toward the spread of "third-world" and "first-world" states? It would seem so.