When Does Walker Get The State Yard Sale Underway?

The newly-minted 2013-'15 Wisconsin state budget allows Governor Walker to sell any state asset or property.

There are some purported safeguards - - approvals after the deals have been cut by the Joint Committee on Finance and the State Building Commission, both of which are controlled by the GOP and Walker (he chairs the Building Commission) - - and some sort of competitive and disclosure process that hasn't been written, let alone tested for credibility, restraints on insiders' access, and so forth.

The powers that be keep saying don't worry, we won't sell off the State Capitol, UW dorms won't suddenly become privately-owned apartment buildings with overnight rent increases and highways won't become instant toll roads.

But what a temptation for big donors who paid for Walker's recall win and legal defense fund and who have always thought that a particular piece of state forest would look better with a gated subdivision.

State office buildings could be leased or sold. Up go the corporate logos, in comes the paid parking.
DMV stations can house tire outlets; why not put a Walgreen or CVS or a donut shop inside the lobby of the state health department.

Walker gets to decide - - putting real retail into retail politics - - with checks and balances [Sic] resting in partisan bodies he controls.

Cross-posted at Purple Wisconsin.