Unsplit Government

Collective Bargaining Law Ruling. Interesting and sad stuff.

Justice Abrahamson strenuously disagreed including this single sentence paragraph, "The legislature must play by the rules of the Wisconsin Constitution and the laws."

She banged on Prosser quite a bit. For example, "Justice Prosser's concurrence is longer than the order. The concurrence consists mostly of a statement of happenings. It is long on rhetoric and long on story-telling that appears to have a partisan slant. Like the order, the concurrence reaches unsupported conclusions."

Four to three just goes to show that, like football, politics and the resulting consequences are a game of inches. No one can say how Kloppenberg would have voted. It is probably fair to say that supporters choose their candidates because their views are in sync. 4000 votes different in a state wide race and this whole thing could have gone the other way.

It certainly appears to me that in this redistricting year the Republicans control all three branches of government setting them up to change the trajectory of our state government for the next decade without any check.

It also concerns me. Folks like WMC, ALEC, and the Chambers have valid perspectives that should be weighed by the electorate but something has gone tragically wrong when they can simply buy the government they want. All perspectives should be included while working to perfect our government and that just isn't going to happen right now.