I was coming here to post the link that Willravel posted. But in case anyone missed, here's what the WI Majority leader said about the bill:
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FITZGERALD: Well if they flip the state senate, which is obviously their goal with eight recalls going on right now, they can take control of the labor unions. If we win this battle, and the money is not there under the auspices of the unions, certainly what you’re going to find is President Obama is going to have a much difficult, much more difficult time getting elected and winning the state of Wisconsin.
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And yet even after the Republicans have essentially openly admitted that this is about electoral politics (which they've not only through the statement above but through the fact that they removed every single budget provision to pass the bill), we still have to put up with people trying to spin this in the "future budgets" BS, because as we all know that 3% of the budget might one day become 3.1%, and then we are all screwed...