From Democratic Underground - with an embedded link to the HuffPo article.
While there has been significant attention devoted to the fact that Walker's 144-page budget repair bill would strip away collective bargaining rights for public employees, the site "Rortybomb" points out a less noticed provision that would allow the state to sell or contract out any state-owned energy asset in no-bid deals with private corporations.
Ok, so maybe not so much. TPM has an update, with sources that seem fairly credible claiming it probably won't be all that bad.
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There's the kiss of death.
I don't believe for a minute that the language of any deal won't include a nice fat bonus or some other benefit guarantied by the Wisconsin taxpayer.