Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker

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http://www.thewheelerreport.com/rele...31laborers.pdf

This afternoon Dane County Firefighters, AFSCME Local 60 (Dane county workers), and Madison Laborers amended the complaint of their earlier lawsuit challenging the legitimacy of the passage of the collective bargaining bill, with a broader attack on the unconstitutional substance of the collective bargaining bill.

The first argument raised in the amended complaint is that the bill violates the Wisconsin constitution on equal protection grounds, because union government employees are treated significantly different than non-union employees under the bill:

"These provisions treat those employees who are represented by public sector labor organizations in ways that are different in significant respects from the ways in which they treat employees who are not represented by any labor organization; and they treat some limited number of public sector employees who are represented by labor organizations in ways that are different from the ways in which they treat most employees who are represented by public sector labor organizations, thereby creating unnecessary conflict among employees and divisions within and among public sector labor organizations."

And in more fun news, Judge Prosser (R running for State Supreme Court re-election Tuesday) - former Governor Patrick Lucey, honorary chairman of Prossers re-election campaign, today BOWED OUT and endorsed Prosser's opponent, Kloppenburg.

"I have followed with increasing dismay and now alarm the campaign of Justice David Prosser, whom I endorsed at the outset of his campaign and in whose campaign I serve as the honorary co-chairman," Lucey said in the statement. "I can no longer in good conscience lend my name and support to Justice Prosser's candidacy. Too much has come to light that Justice Prosser has lost that most crucial of characteristics for a Supreme Court Justice -- as for any judge -- even-handed impartiality. Along with that failing has come a disturbing distemper and lack of civility that does not bode well for the High Court in the face of demands that are sure to be placed on it in these times of great political and legal volatility."

This is important, as all this union-busting stuff is going to make it to the Wisconsin Supreme Court, currently 5-4 conservative. Unless Prosser loses to Kloppenburg Tuesday. Prosser has publicly stated he'll generally support the Republican view. That's not judicial objectivity.

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