Wisconsin Senate Majority Leader Admits Motive Was Union Busting

29 March 2011

Let there now be no doubt that Wisconsin’s budget fight was not about the budget. Think Progress, emphasis mine:

State Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald (R) has already revealed that the true motivation behind the bill was to defund unions to make it “much more difficult” for Democrats, including President Obama, to get elected in Wisconsin. Now, attempting to fend off efforts to recall eight of his Senate colleagues, he’s mailed out a fundraising letter that removes any doubt about the GOP’s motive:

Fitzgerald in the fundraising letter:

(Unions have) ruined California and Illinois, but they’re not going to ruin Wisconsin. That is because Republicans faced down Big Labor’s bully tactics and a Democratic walk-out in the state Senate to break the power of unions like WEAC and AFSCME once and for all.

Well, hey, we knew that it was about union busting early on. But, it’s always nice to get it out in the open via the horses mouth. They now have no further ability to deny their real motivation.
Not that they won’t do exactly that anyway.