Wisconsin is the far-right's bad idea lab

If there's a bad political idea floating around out there or a hard-right group trying openly or quietly to make it happen, the odds are there's a Wisconsin personality, policy or partisan funder behind it.

Make sure you read this Dan Bice scoop in The Journal Sentinel:

Hacked records show Bradley Foundation taking its conservative Wisconsin model national
Pair it with this under-covered 2014 story broken by Salon:com that actually dates to 2007:
“Wisconsin is the model”: Grover Norquist’s Tea Party scheme to crush his union enemies
So there are your big strategies and players, and here are some of the ugly results:

Special interests captured the State Supreme Court and turned it into a conflicted, ethically-deficient laughingstock:

This blog post:

National report says Wisconsin models Trump's war on the environment
And this one, from February:
Want an idea for what's coming to your rivers, streams, groundwater and clean air when Donald's Trump's anti-environmental EPA administrator Scott Pruitt turns the agency into a subsidiary of the oil and gas interests he let run the State of Oklahoma, records show?
Look to Wisconsin, the new state-level laboratory of corporate, special-interest control.
And this CBS report, also from February
Scott Walker’s Wisconsin: A labor model for Trump?
Regrettably, stay tuned.

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