Then came the union-busting bill proposed by Governor Scott Walker that turned the Badger State upside down.
The young governor pushed through the state legislature a massive budget reform package aimed at righting the fiscal ship of the Badger State.
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If the GOP budget in fact becomes the mother of all cuts, the battle in the badger state might someday be annointed the grandmother.
Vice President Dick Cheney will campaign in Florida and Pennsylvania Wednesday before he picks up where the president left off, meeting with community leaders in the Badger State.
And now with the election result on Tuesday, retaining Gov. Scott Walker in office, the Badger State begins a new chapter potentially a great one in its fulsome tradition of political leadership.
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Yet, as our own Kurt Badenhausen pointed out last month, The Badger State has ranked in the bottom quartile of our annual Best States for Business ranking since we first started doing it in 2006.
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Certainly that is what it looks like today, to me, as a Wisconsin native and a long-tenured journalist there who has continued to track the Badger State for a variety of business and other publications even after moving on.
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And big bucks is exactly what we can expect to flood the Badger State should these two political heavyweights agree to square off in the battle to replace Senator Herb Kohl who announced his retirement after four terms in the United States Senate.
Previously, as a result of the now infamous budget-repair bill passed earlier this year in the Badger State, the legislature had taken themselves out of the Medicaid cutting business by turning full responsibility for the same over to the Department of Health Services.
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