NEWSMAX: Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich says Wednesday night’s Wisconsin vote is another example of governors “trampling on the rights of working people, making a mockery of democracy, and a mockery of the rule of law.”
“In Wisconsin, the governor [Scott Walker] has exposed himself,” Reich said on MSNBC. “I mean, after all, his whole justification for getting rid of most of the bargaining rights of state workers was to save money. But in order to ram this particular piece of legislation through the state Senate, they had to characterize it as having nothing to do with the budget at all. I think the governor is going to pay a huge political price for this.”..
“But I do think that the American public does not like this kind of extremism,” said former President Bill Clinton’s labor secretary. “And Republicans both at the state level – and also Republicans who are threatening a shutdown of the federal government – risk turning the public off.”… (more)
