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Are professional sports next?

I've been unlucky enough to meet my fair share of Wisconians in my life. They use stupid words, can't watch bad drivers without sounding like idiots, have terrible taste in music, like stupid professional sports teams, have terrible hair cuts, and they're worse than Texans. I could go on and on.

One thing they do have, besides Mark Borchardt, it turns out, is balls. Brains...maybe not. These are the same people who got rid of Russ Feingold and a billion other Democrats in the last election for the sake of "shaking things up," according to one protesting moderate. And now, because the majority thinks saying 'Don't Tread On Me' is cool, they have a battle on their hands. Luckily for the rest of the nation, they are willing to take the fight.

If you want to know more about the situation, check out the NY Times. Long story short, Scott Walker and his homeboys want to screw over state employees and know they can't do it in an orderly fashion until they get rid of their collective bargaining rights. They say it's all in the name of balancing the budget, although they refuse to raise corporate tax rates--which are half of what they were in the 1980s.

The major problem for everyone else is that if this goes through in Madison, all the other Republican state houses will follow suit. And it won't just affect state employees--labor talks are looming in the MLB, NFL and NBA. Right? Are they really siding with the ownership?

So, please write your Republican representatives and tell them not to take your professional sports away, unless, of course, it's the Packers. Then, if you are so inclined, visit Help Defend Wisconsin.