TPA v. the MPA

Anti-tax rhetoric is easy to spout, but when it comes to standing up for taxpayers instead of special interests, that's a horse of a different feather, as one legislator once said.

There's no better example than Speaker John Gard, the Republican who wants a Taxpayer Protection Amendment, but also wants to make taxpayers keep shelling out to pay for sweet deals Gard and his fellow Republicans have made with the Milwaukee Police Assn.

Jim Rowen has more on the clash between the TPA and the MPA.