Heated legislative session does little to change republicans’ minds

Campaign finance changes
headed to governor’s desk 

Those fighting campaign finance changes in Wisconsin never really had much of a chance. 

Those changes are in legislation that’s now headed to governor Scott Walker for a signature after an extraordinary session in Madison on Monday – a session during which democratic minority leader Peter Barca tried to convince his republican colleagues that their actions bordered on the unethical.

“What the bill will do,” Barca complained to other legislators, “is allow you to protect yourselves as incumbents, to enrich your campaign committee, to make it easier to be reelected. That’s wrong.”

The campaign finance reforms, and another measure to do away with the state commission that oversees elections topped, the agenda during the extraordinary session.