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Shortly after the November election, Common Cause hosted a National Press Club forum that focused on the flood of corporate and other special interest investments into campaigns for Congress, governorships and state legislatures across the country.

The question we asked that morning â€" “What follows the money?” -- is now being answered in Wisconsin and other states, as well as here in Washington. Corporate interests that bankrolled last fall’s winning candidates, often through hidden donations, are busy collecting the first returns on their investments.


I should say here that I’m no expert on Wisconsin’s fiscal challenges, or those of any other state. But it’s clear to me that the course Badger State Gov. Scott Walker has chosen to answer those challenges, an attempt to break the collective bargaining power of some unfriendly public worker unions, reflects the wishes of one of his most generous corporate supporters.

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