Rights-Stripping by Wisconsin Republicans Will Reverberate in Coming Elections
Wisconsin Dems have started the clock on these GOP Senators. (photo: markonf1re)
The oddest thing about the “Ash Wednesday Ambush” last night in Madison is that this could have really been done at any time. The idea behind sticking the stripping of public employee rights in the budget repair bill was to give political cover. Once that was blown, and everybody knew what was in the bill, this was always a safety valve. There would still have been legal questions, but they had this opportunity pretty much whenever. They could have tried it the first day the Fab 14 Senate Democrats left. Heck, I wrote on February 21 about this