nytimes.com - MADISON, Wis. — In an off year for major elections in Wisconsin, one race in 2011 unexpectedly turned into a full-blown battle: David Prosser, a Supreme Court justice seen as part of the court’s conservative majority, was fighting for his seat against a more liberal opponent, JoAnne Kloppenburg, a little-known assistant attorney general.
The campaign became a referendum on efforts by the newly elected Republican governor, Scott Walker, to cut collective bargaining rights for most public workers, and money was pouring in.
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