Ben Wikler
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259 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 26 Jul
Ben Wikler’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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They immediately tried to rig the system permanently so they'd never lose control.
They attacked unions.
They basically declared war on teachers, created a teacher crisis in the state.
They rigged our maps more than the country is gerrymandered right now.
They passed one of the most extreme voter suppression laws in the nation.
The judge said it was the most extreme anti-voting law in the nation.
The next election, 2012, Democrats won statewide.
Barack Obama won.
Tammy Baldwin won in the U.S.
Senate race.
Republicans' majority in the state legislature grew, even though they got less votes than the Democrats, because they'd rigged the system so they'd never lose control.
At that point, majority.
They went for super majorities later.
And where's the Wisconsin Supreme Court in this right in that moment?
So Wisconsin State Supreme Court was almost evenly divided.
There was an incredibly close state Supreme Court race in the spring of 2011.
Republicans held on to their majority by less than one percentage point.
And that meant that the state had a state Supreme Court that rubber stamped everything they did.
So basically, Wisconsin was all the maps, everything, all the maps, the voter suppression law.
They basically allowed Scott Walker and his friends and cronies, the Koch brothers network, this sort of right far right billionaire donor network to break election laws.
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