Marketplace (American Public Media) just broadcast a brief but nice piece on public safety workers hurt by the Walker administration in Wisconsin. There are some really articulate interviewees including Mahlon Mitchell. I kept waiting it to finish with a false-equivalency rebuttal but ... it didn't happen.
The audio and transcript are here
Here's a sample:
Mitchell likes to point out that in the 2010 election, nearly a third of union members voted for Gov. Walker. Paul Wright was one of those voters. But he thinks the governor...
Paul Wright: Turned around and stabbed us right in the back.
Wright's been a state correctional officer for 24 years. And for the past year he's made about $900 less a month because of how much more he pays towards pension contributions and health care.
Wright: That would be a nice truck payment, you could buy a house with $900 a month.
Wright says that $900 means his son can only afford to attend community college instead of the University of Wisconsin.
And on top of that, I now know how to spell Kai Ryssdal