Scott Walker union busting featured on MSNBC, to show Union influence in elections disappearing.

MSNBC’s Melissa Harris Perry featured the Madison protests tonight, showing how Scott Walker was able to take union money out of elections, leaving nothing but corporate cash.

Perry then said this: 

Harris-Perry: “We cannot know if Republicans in Wisconsin were motivated to strip union rights in order to achieve this end…”

Oh but we do know. Here it is, the now classic and amazing performance by Sen. Scott Fitzgerald on Fox News:

It's no surprise that business lobbyists have already taken the lead, and hold the top 3 positions. Just wait till election season:

jsonline: The new leaders in lobbying spending at the Capitol are large business groups, which are more numerous than large unions. Some local government groups such as the Wisconsin Counties Association and the City of Milwaukee also spent substantial sums in the first six months of 2013 seeking to influence provisions in the state budget that reduced the power of local elected officials or affected local concerns.

 "The top five lobbying groups for the first half of 2013" shouldn't be a big shock.

■ Wisconsin Insurance Alliance, $357,000.

■ Wisconsin Hospital Association, $324,000.

■ Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce, $295,000.

■ Wisconsin Counties Association, $292,000.

■ Wisconsin Property Taxpayers Inc., $233,000.

The preliminary lobbying figures from the Government Accountability Board released this week are just the latest sign of the deep impact of Act 10, Gov. Scott Walker's 2011 law repealing most collective bargaining for most public employees. The new figures on who's lobbying state lawmakers follow a recent Milwaukee Journal Sentinel report showing that Act 10 had effectively crushed the membership and finances of government labor unions as well as eliminating most of their former duties.