The attorney for Paul Barrows says lawmakers have smeared his client like people did in the day of Joseph McCarthy.
“Every single state employee ought to be upset about this. If the legislators can do that to Paul Barrows, they can do it to anybody,” said Lester Pines, attorney for the former University of Wisconsin-Madison vice chancellor for student affairs.
“It’s reminiscent of how legislators used to behave during the McCarthy era, during which they would pick out a person, accuse the person of nefarious conduct and then destroy their career without any evidence,” Pines said, referring to the late Wisconsin U.S. senator who hounded alleged Communists.