Journal Times editorial -- Wisconsin needs more disclosure of campaign contributions, not less

……State Sen. Glenn Grothman, R-West Bend, has been pushing legislation that would remove the requirement that people who give more than $100 to a year to political campaigns must identify their principal place of employment. A committee last week modified the legislation and bumped the limit up to $250 and removed the requirement that donors identify their occupation. …. We can understand Grothman's anger, but the fact is that those union tactics were pilloried by newspapers around the state last year and went nowhere. This newspaper editorialized against such misguided tactics right here in Union Grove, when American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees organizers went around to small businesses and threatened them with boycotts unless they put pro-union signs in their windows. We called those tactics and other such boycott measures aimed at Walker political supporters "ill-conceived, ham-handed and thuggish strategy that can only backfire and cost the unions and Democrats support." When the Union Grove episode became public, state union officials quickly backed away from it.

Journal Times editorial -- Wisconsin needs more disclosure of campaign contributions, not less