A newly hired lawyer for embattled UW-Madison administrator Paul Barrows said Wednesday his client has done nothing wrong, despite growing legislative pressure to have him fired for taking a seven-month paid leave triggered in part by a failed relationship with a graduate student.
“There’s no basis to fire him,” said Madison attorney Lester Pines. “A lot of legislators, their only reaction to any problem is one of two things: cut taxes or fire the person. That’s the extent of the intellect of some legislators.”