John Wiley is leaving his post as chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a bang. A political bang.
In an article penned for Madison magazine, Wiley takes on the Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce corporate lobbying machine in language that rocked the state’s political scene.
It wasn’t that Wiley said anything new. There has for a number of years now been a dawning consciousness among thinking Wisconsinites that WMC is leading a race to the bottom that would have this state define being competitive as being “among those states with the lowest taxes, lowest wages, and least regulation in the nation.”