Are you old enough to remember when Wisconsin was a liberal bastion?

That's right.  Robert "Fighting Bob" LaFollette was state's governor and one of the leading Progressives of his time. "La Follette has been called arguably the most important and recognized leader of the opposition to the growing dominance of corporations over the Government and is one of the key figures pointed to in Wisconsin's long history of political liberalism."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_M._La_Follette_Sr.

So what, I wonder, would he say about the state's turn to GOP conservatism in recent years.  Just last week a legislative committee released proposals that will, if enacted, erode tenure and end shared governance for faculty at the state's public universities.
http://chronicle.com/article/Wisconsin-Lawmakers-Take-Aim/230545/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en

Meanwhile conservative Governor Scott Walker, who has been union busting since he gained office, is now one of the Republican mob seeking the party's presidential nomination next year.  Take a gander at the look on Fighting Bob's face (above).  Did he see what was coming?  Is he rolling in his grave?