PROFESSOR JACOBSON: WISCONSIN DOJ OPEN MEETINGS EXPERT SECRETLY ADVISED FLEEBAGGER SENATORS:

In Wisconsin government, there seems to be a problem with pro-union politics interfering with job responsibilities as public servants.

First it was police union members urging protesters to defy the Governor and legislature when it came to the takeover of the State Capitol. Then it was the Dane County Sheriff declaring that his officers would not act as “palace guards” at the Capitol.

Now it turns out that an Assistant Attorney General in the Wisconsin Department of Justice, who was considered an expert on the Open Meetings Law which is at issue in the lawsuit challenging the budget repair bill, secretly was offering legal advice to the 14 Democratic Senators who fled the state.

Read the whole thing. It’s almost like there’s a state within a state: A good-government public facade, with a lot of machine guys hiding behind it and doing deals. Scott Walker seems to have smoked things out.