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Broadcast History

This first aired on the program The Sunday Edition on CBC Radio across Canada on April 17, 2011.

Intro and Outro

Until a couple of months ago, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker was - at least outside his home state -
mostly an unknown quantity.

But when he came to Washington to testify about cutting and spending at the House Oversight Committee in Washington, he was a star witness. Fellow Republicans hailed him as a courageous visionary, a steady hand making tough choices in the face of fiscal calamity.

The demonstrators who stalked his every move called him other things.

In February, Governor Walker achieved poster boy status - as either demon or saviour - when he introduced a budget repair bill that would strip public sector workers of almost all their union rights. The governor knew he would have a fight on his hands. He was ready for it. And he was right about the fight.

The uproar was immediate, headline-making and massive. A nowhere more so than in Madison, which happens to be the place where producer Ira Basen studied American history a few decades ago.

In Winconsin, history matters.

And in 2011, this fight in Wisconsin matters.

There is a lot at stake.

Ira Basen went back to his old stomping grounds to find out what and why. Here's his documentary, Battleground Wisconsin.

PLEASE LEAVE A GOOD BEAT OR TWO BEFORE YOU GO TO TAPE!!!!!!!!

Ira Basen is a producer with CBC Radio. This documentary first aired on the program The Sunday Edition on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.