Wis. Court: Budget Repair Law Can Take Effect; AP’s Bauer Clearly Unhappy
As has been the case virtually from the beginning, the Associated Press's Scott Bauer has been clearly unhappy with 2011 Wisconsin Act 10, commonly known even to the Wisconsin Supreme Court as the “Budget Repair Bill.” Today, the court ruled that the law as enacted by the Badger State's legislature and signed by Governor Scott Walker can go into effect on July 1. Looking back at what's available of Bauer's body of work on the matter during the past four months, his consistent mischaracterization of the bill's contents, saying that it would “eliminate collective bargaining” when it doesn't (shown here and here ), is truly striking. What's even more striking (pun intended) is how he and his employer described the law in the report's headline and first sentence in at least one early version this evening: Wisconsin's Polarizing Union Law To Take Effect
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on June 14, 2011. Filed under