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Tuesday, February 22, 2011

postheadericon Hate the union, love the union member

Scott Walker, Wisconsin’s new Republican governor, is but the first of the new crop of GOP governors to aggressively follow in the footsteps of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and take on the public-sector employee unions.

It is a risky strategy. Wisconsin, after all, is not Alabama. It is the home of the Green Bay Packers (meat packers are heavily unionized) and the Milwaukee Brewers (as are beer brewers), and it has long dabbled on the more progressive side of the ideological spectrum.

Wisconsin is a Catholic state, and it has an affinity for union members.

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