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BREAKING NEWS
November 12, 2008
CHANCELLORS BEHAVING BADLY
Back in August, outgoing UW-Madison Chancellor John Wiley authored a poison pen to the state’s business community, blaming them for the “toxic” tone of state politics in Wisconsin today. Since then, most of Wiley’s claims have been thoroughly discredited, exposing him as a partisan hack.
The Wisconsin Club for Growth was interested in exactly how Wiley’s screed came about – whether anyone counseled him on what he was saying, whether he did any independent research on the topic, or whether he even bothered to check any facts contained in his odd column. So CFG submitted an open records request for Wiley’s personal e-mails from his UW-Madison account dealing with the column. Not surprisingly, what we found were sycophantic friends and UW-Madison employees praising Wiley for his “honesty,” and Wiley fantasizing about his pending martyrdom while the state’s largest business group came at him with guns a blazing.
