Right to work latest move in GOP transformation of state (fundamental transformation, you might say)

jsonline.com ^ | 2/25/15 | Jason Stein

[cotton1706]

Madison — With their embrace of right-to-work legislation, Republicans are advancing their four-year transformation of Wisconsin, weaving conservative policies and politics into the fabric of a state where the Progressive era has yielded to the age of Scott Walker.

This Republican revolution arguably represents the greatest reordering of Wisconsin's politics in a century, encompassing everything from allowing the concealed carry of handguns, putting new rules on abortion providers and rolling over once powerful union foes.

Bill Kraus, who worked on his first Republican U.S. Senate campaign in 1952 and later ran the campaign and office of GOP Gov. Lee Sherman Dreyfus, called the shift the deepest change in state politics since Progressive leader "Fighting Bob" La Follette rose to prominence a century ago.

"A lot of settled things have become unsettled," said Kraus, a moderate who describes himself now as a politically "homeless" man without the shelter of his former partisan affiliation. "It's very radical and the question we don't know is whether it's a reflection of a changed Wisconsin or a group in power that have misread their mandate and are more lucky and blessed than right."

Kraus said the answer won't come until Walker — the architect of this transformation — leaves office.

These Republican successes in the statehouse since 2011 have catapulted the governor into near front-runner status as a potential GOP presidential candidate but have also come at a cost: bitter protests; legal challenges that have reached the state Supreme Court and U.S. Supreme Court; and recall elections at home.

Brett Healy, a former chief of staff to GOP Assembly Speaker Scott Jensen who has more than two decades in Wisconsin politics, noted many statehouses around the country shifted to the right four years ago.

[Secret Agent Man]

Kraus, he doth project too much.

[Flintlock]

Breaking lots of THE RIGHT RICEBOWLS, I see.

Keep up the good work.

[PGalt]

Amazing accomplishments.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOYus1BE7jk

[ltc8k6]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/carl-gibson/mark-dayton-minnesota-economy_b_6737786.html

Apparently the new meme/example from the Dems is Minnesota.

Minnesota is great and Wisconsin sucks.

Proof that Obamanomics works, they say.

[catnipman]

Awesome legislation that eliminates the unions’ indentured servitude of workers. Now every union will have to actually CONVINCE workers that the union offers benefits commiserate with their dues!

[Oatka]

. . . Kraus, a moderate who describes himself now as a politically "homeless" man without the shelter of his former partisan affiliation. "It's very radical and the question we don't know is whether it's a reflection of a changed Wisconsin or a group in power that have misread their mandate and are more lucky and blessed than right."

He needs a little cheese with that whine. Evidently a "homeless" RINO.