The Fix, ladies and gentlemen, is most definitely in.
The white smoke is wafting over the Vatican on WEAC hill in Madison. The holy chrism has been daubed. Habemus papam.
The Big Labor bosses have crowned the next governor of Wisconsin, and it is Kathleen Falk. The teachers union (WEAC) has endorsed Our Lady of the Swamps. What’s more, the former Dane County executive has promised WEAC and the state employees union (WSEU) that she will do their bidding. Her only question: How high?
As those who lay siege to the Capitol (Saturday is the one-year anniversary) might chant: Whose governor? The union bosses’ governor!
The former Dane County executive has mortgaged her soul for a chance at the brass ring. She has put up the For Sale sign on whatever maneuverability an effective governor must have. She has met the unions’ demand that she veto any state budget that does not restore to the government employee unions all the goodies they lost under Walker, including:
