This is bigger than just WI. While our attention has been focused more to WI we need to pay attention to the other states that are under attach.
In MI they have passed an "Emergency Manager" bill that basically overturns representative government, the very foundation of democracy.
The Senate on March 9 -- following the vote of the House last month -- passed a series of bills that give sweeping powers to emergency financial managers who would be assigned to struggling municipalities and school districts.
The emergency manager’s powers are almost unheard of in a democracy and go well beyond the Wisconsin repeal of collective bargaining that also passed March 9. It’s important to note that the Wisconsin bill excludes police and fire.
In Michigan, the emergency manager will have total power of the purse: with absolute authority the emergency manager will be able to sell assets like the water department, undo union contracts, abrogate collective bargaining agreements without discussion including those of police and fire. More worrisome still, the emergency manager will be able to dissolve local governments.
The whole article is worth the read here at the local Fox outlet You won't believe that it's Fox.
Please share more info in the comments. I've heard that the Pontiac Police Department has already been disbanded. Anyone have more info?