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In all my years newspapering in this town, I can't remember a Legislature as anti-worker as this one.

It makes one shudder every time the likes of Scott Walker, Robin Vos and Scott Fitzgerald bring these people back into session. Each time the Republicans devise a new way to attack anything that might slightly benefit working men and women.

It isn't enough that these GOP legislators in less than three years have destroyed public unions, weakened private ones, limited participation in Medicaid for tens of thousands of low-income workers, cut back the Homestead Tax Credit, and shifted yet more of the state's tax burden from corporations to the backs of working people. And that's just for starters.

These same legislators — who have guaranteed themselves long terms in public office through what ought to be illegal gerrymandering — had already seen fit to prohibit municipalities from enacting local living wage ordinances except for ordinances that apply only to employees of the municipality or those working under contract for it.

Now they want to further restrict living wage ordinances if those municipal contracts include state or federal funds that pass through the state treasury.