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Opinion | Wisconsin GOP doesn’t have Disney to beat up on, but it has UW

Yet, not unlike Ron DeSantis and Disney, a cluster of outspoken Republican legislators continue to use the UW System — UW-Madison in particular — as a whipping boy. They are led by state Sen. Steve Nass of Whitewater, who uses his post as chair or the Senate’s Education Committee as a bully pulpit to keep threats of funding cuts and faculty and student discipline hanging ominously in the air.