Leaked court documents from ‘John Doe investigation’ in Wisconsin lay bare pervasive influence of corporate cash on contemporary US electionsScott Walker was under pressure. It was September 2011,and earlier that year the first-term governor had turned himself into the poster boy of hardline Republican politics by passing the notorious anti-union measure Act 10, stripping public sector unions of collective bargaining rights.
Now he was under attack himself, or pursued by progressive groups who planned revenge by forcing him into a recall election. His job was on the line.
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Source: theguardian.com