April 8th, 2011
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Author: Stevens Point — One by one, they stepped up to the lectern.
And one by one, they ripped Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed two-year state budget as they testified before the Legislature’s budget committee.
“I feel like a mosquito in a nudist colony. I know what I’m supposed to do – I just don’t know where to start,” said Bill Hettler, the former director of health services for the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point.
In an interview after he testified, the 67-year-old Park Ridge resident blasted Walker’s plan for cutting education, transit and family planning efforts. He said the tax policies in the budget put corporations and the wealthy above middle- and low-income people.
The hearing at UW-Stevens Point drew hundreds of people – far fewer than the thousands many said they expected after protesters filled the Capitol for weeks over a measure to eliminate most collective bargaining for public workers.
Must be the same hundreds that only managed to drive David Prosser from 55% to 50% after spending a month accusing him of being a pedophile protector and a clone of Scott Walker. Take out the self-interested voters of Dane County and the numbers are even less impressive.
You mean the overwhelming majority of Wisconsinites really don’t give a s@#$ about collective bargaining? I’m stunned…
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