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Having been born and raised in Wisconsin, I am proud of the direct action taken by citizens and public officials in the face of such irresponsibility. While disappointed with Walker's victory, I hardly think he made this farcial "plan" known in any campaign speech. No, this is something one keeps in the bag until one's victory is confirmed. Having read and heard the entirety of his rationale for such cost-cutting, I see many errors in logic, or even critical thinking. As the article points out, it was a constant and expensive media barrage that put him over the top in November. One can hardly believe all the pies in which the Koch Brothers have a finger. In this, the Supreme Court's Citizen United decision bulldozed the way clear for such billionaires, millionaires, and multi-national corporations (which need not be American) to donate however much they want to any campaign, anywhere they want. Because a corporation should have the same rights as a citizen. Let that sink in. By the way, if a corporation has these same rights, can I thence sue, or swear out a criminal complaint against, a corporation for libel, slander, environmental law-breaking, tax evasion, misrepresentation, money laundering, etc? Or, in fact, was the CU decision just so much garbage? Republican, and Ronald Reagan Appointee, Sandra Day O'Connor's legal opinion seems to bear this out. The former Supreme Court Justice came out strongly against this ruling in her address at the Georgtown University Law Center. To this, she also warned that the decision has the potential to destroy the independence of the judicial branch, since so many districts and states elect their judges.