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Vital Signs: Media hones in on Koch brothers and Walker’s proposal to sell state energy plants

No wonder Gov. Walker was in such a hurry to get his budget repair bill passed. Every day new stuff comes out about it. The labor issues were obvious and got all the attention for a while. But then people started uncovering the fact that the bill would hand the Walker administration sweeping powers to revamp Medicaid with little public and legislative input. Now a third piece of the 144-page bill is making headlines ? a power grab some critics believe could be political payback to the conservative Koch brothers.