Now that Dane Co. Wisconsin Circuit Court Judge Maryanne Sumi has issued a restraining order for Gov. Scott "Too Much Johnnie" Walker's union-busting efforts, let's hope that contributes to the eventual unraveling of those efforts.
Seeing the public abandon them in droves, the State's Rethuglican pols cobbled together a separate bill to deny collective bargaining rights to public workers, to try to short-circuit their plummeting public support. They literally passed the measure in the dead of night without public hearings, a violation of Wisconsin statutes. We'll see what happens next, but at the very least, this whole episode has demonstrated the Wisconsin Rethuglicans' contempt for not only public employees, but for open government. There may not be palm trees in Madison, but they've got some banana Republicans in their state government.
