The New York Times: Unions subdued, Walker turns to colleges

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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&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0

[MBS]

1. Scott Walker

has destroyed the state of Wisconsin.

[BillZBubb]

2. The voters of Wisconsin have destroyed the state of Wisconsin.

Walker is the symptom, not the cause.

[MBS]

3. Yes, that, too

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.

[Buzz Clik]

4. +1

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5. This will have a chilling effect on attracting top academics to

the University of Wisconsin—one 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.