Sunday, March 13, 2011
Wisconsin - Another View
The Wisconsin fight over the bill to reduce public sector union power has been played by much of the (mostly liberal) media as a fight between an insensitive Republican governor and hapless union workers, supported by defiant Democratic lawmakers who left the state rather than allow the vote. The reality is, as always, a good bit more complex than that. The Weekly Standard has a rather detailed history in a story entitled On Wisconsin: How the Republicans Won the Battle of Madison. It too, of course, has its bias, but at least it gives the story from a different perspective, so is well worth reading.