{"id":10893,"date":"2022-11-01T15:34:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-01T21:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=10893"},"modified":"2022-11-01T15:36:15","modified_gmt":"2022-11-01T21:36:15","slug":"notes-on-yet-another-nyt-election-season-visit-to-wisconsin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=10893","title":{"rendered":"Notes on yet another NYT election season visit to Wisconsin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Regarding <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/11\/01\/magazine\/wisconsin-democrats.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare\">Jonathan Mahler\u2019s <\/a>article\u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A west coast friend asked years ago about Wisconsin and the rise of Scott Walker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another friend deep in the political game told me that one must understand The <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.jsonline.com\/news\/milwaukee\/44156882.html\/\">Milwaukee pension scandal<\/a>, which lead to Mr. Walker\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/urbanmilwaukee.com\/2002\/02\/27\/murphys-law-is-scott-walker-qualified-to-be-county-exec\/\">election<\/a> as County Executive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>$<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.jsonline.com\/news\/opinion\/106343368.html\">1.57m<\/a> for four state senators (WEAC 2010)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kathy Cramer\u2019s book <a href=\"https:\/\/press.uchicago.edu\/ucp\/books\/book\/chicago\/P\/bo22879533.html\">The Politics of Resentment<\/a> is worth a read as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regarding Jonathan Mahler\u2019s article\u2026. A west coast friend asked years ago about Wisconsin and the rise of Scott Walker. Another friend deep in the political game told me that one must understand The Milwaukee pension scandal, which lead to Mr. Walker\u2019s election as County Executive. $1.57m for four state senators (WEAC 2010) Kathy Cramer\u2019s book [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10893"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10893"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10895,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10893\/revisions\/10895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}