I don't have a dog in this fight, but...

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The NY Times has seen fit to write an entire editorial about The Scooter.
Here is the gist, for those of you who are not just interested in $ and budgets...


NY Times (Editorial Board) 2/6/15
Gov. Walker’s ‘Drafting Error’

It was not enough for Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin suddenly to propose
a destructive 13 percent cut in state support for the University of Wisconsin’s widely respected system.
His biennial budget plan, released Tuesday, reached gratuitously into the university’s
hallowed 111-year-old mission statement to delete a bedrock principle:
“Basic to every purpose of the system is the search for truth.”

The budget — patently tailored for the governor’s conservative
campaign for the Republican presidential nomination
— inserted language that the university should be more narrowly concerned with meeting
“the state’s work force needs.”

Brazenly deleted as well from the mission statement, which is
nationally appreciated in education circles as the Wisconsin Idea,
were the far from controversial goals
“to educate people and improve the human condition” and “serve and stimulate society.”
It was as if a trade school agenda were substituted for the idea of a university.

But Mr. Walker badly miscalculated — <snip><snip><snip>

If nothing else, Mr. Walker is sharpening the debate within the Republican Party
about whether it can win despite its own extremists.

Besides all that: It looks as tho I do have a dog in this fight.


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