State Rep. Steve Nass, R-Palmyra, has made it his mission to be the Legislature’s attack dog against higher education.
The bombastic Republican never misses a chance to pick on the University of Wisconsin-Madison and other campuses in the UW System. For the most part, everyone recognizes that Nass is just chasing headlines, and his outbursts are treated accordingly. But every once in a while, he gets out of line.
That’s what happened last week when Nass denounced UW President Kevin Reilly for urging the Legislature’s Joint Finance Committee to avoid further cuts in the system’s 2005-2007 budget.