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Wisconsin loses: The GOP budget shows its contempt for citizens

Reporters were jammed into a stuffy room in the Capitol on the afternoon of June 14, waiting for debate on a bill that would deprive public employees of their collective bargaining rights in the state budget. The hearing kept getting postponed.

A heavily made-up Fox News reporter kept checking her hair and adjusting her microphone as 4 turned into 5.

Finally, a reporter sitting beside me got a message that the Supreme Court had reversed the injunction on Scott Walker's original union-busting bill. It was now law. There was no need for the hearing.

As everyone drifted into the hallway, a few protesters wearing pink slips peeked in. But the marble halls were mainly empty. I bumped into my daughter's elementary school teacher, and we reminisced about how we saw each other here in February, in the huge crowd that jammed the Capitol the night the Assembly first rammed through the union-busting bill. It seemed like everyone we knew was there, shoulder to shoulder, resisting this outrageous attack on teachers, public employees and democracy itself in our state. I gave her the bad news, and we shook our heads.

Word of the decision spread among the handful of people milling about the Rotunda. Outside, a sizable crowd had gathered on the steps. But for the first time, I didn't feel buoyed up by being among my fellow Wisconsinites at one of these protests. It was a beautiful evening, bands were playing, speakers led some now-familiar chants, and the mood was festive and relaxed. Most people didn't even know yet what we had just lost.

Walker's move to end collective bargaining was what first brought us all together. It was what sent the 14 Democratic senators fleeing to Illinois and sparked the teacher walkout that grew into those massive weekend rallies of hundreds of thousands.

But Walker waited us out, just like he said he would. First, he pushed through his bill, violating open meetings law. Then his cronies on the court sided with him in this slipshod, last-minute decision, which essentially says that the Legislature can do as it pleases — no need to follow normal rules.

In its "extraordinary session," the Republican leadership turned the normal budget process into an emergency race to the finish, savaging education, health care and middle-class programs like the Earned Income Tax Credit, bringing back child labor, loosening environmental protections, concentrating historic powers in the governor's office, and doling out hundreds of thousands of dollars to big corporations, giving the lie to the nonsense about a budget "crisis" that justifies belt-tightening.

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