Man. It has been a much more relaxed week for the ZRC, protest-wise anyway. The news keeps coming in though, so here are some highlights for our readers.

1) A series of lawsuits against the highly irregular and (most likely) illegal tactics used to pass the Anti-Union, Anti-Zombie, Anti-Poor, Anti-Student, Anti-Everybody Really bill have been filed and are proceeding apace. This morning a judge issued a temporary restraining order against the ‘budget repair’ bill being enacted into law, blocking implementation entirely for the foreseeable future; the case will apparently proceed in April.

2) Another suit against the hopefully illegal and still stifling conditions in the Capitol has been filed by a longtime activist. Here’s hoping that one succeeds and the DOA can be forced to stop acting like such jackbooted toadies of the Walker Administration. Their low-grade harassment of protesters and nitpicking on permits has been a blatant attempt to chill free speech and curry favor with their boss, and is moral cowardice of the lowest and most degrading sort, legal or not.

3) The ongoing scandal of State Senator Randy Hopper has been one source of delight after another. First it emerges, when recall proponents go to his house, that Sen. Hopper has moved out on his wife and shacked up in Madison with his mistress, which would mean that he’s ineligible as a Senator (because he moved out of his home district). Then he lies to the press about living in a non-existent apartment in his district, as if they would not check up on his story. Then it turns out that *somehow* his fling on the side, who was a lobbyist while bedding him by the way, has gotten a cushy state job with undisclosed income. Imagine that.

4) A Zombie Walk against Walker and in support of Unions is being held on April 2nd, starting at 1pm on State Street by the Urban Outfitters (we have an Urban Outfitters?). The ZRC will be in attendance with literature and signs and strongly encourages Zombies and their allies to show up for a good time and a very worthy cause.

Stay tuned here for more updates as things move forward. The ZRC has a big project we’ve been working on this week that I’m about to debut and I think you’ll all be very pleased.

Tags: Madison Protests

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