Walker is acting not as governor, but as dictator

Cap Times editorial

The responses to Gov. Scott Walker’s proposal to undermine the ability of working Wisconsinites to bargain for fair wages and benefits have been appropriately passionate.

Wisconsinites are angry with their governor, who promised to work across lines of partisanship and ideology to create jobs, but has instead chosen to play political games.

The governor’s budget repair bill, which includes a plan to gut collective bargaining protections for state employees, does not seek to get the state’s fiscal house in order.

Rather, it is seeks a political goal: destroying public employee unions, which demand fair treatment of workers and hold governors of both parties to account when they seek to undermine public services and public education.

At every level, Walker’s proposal sows the seeds of political, social and economic instability.

The economic threat may well be the most significant -- especially at a time when Wisconsin needs to create jobs, as opposed to political fights.


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