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Also, Kasich formally running.
That's gonna be a weird contrast with Walker. Both guys went after the public unions, but Ohio structurally gives citizens the ability to say 'oh no you fucking didn't,' and Ohio's law got repealed by an overwhelming margin.
Wisconsin voters can't do that. So Walker has continued to hammer the unions because there's literally nobody who's going to balk him on it. The Legislature has been a rubber stamp for most of his governorship, and the only way for Wisconsin voters to put a stop to it is either to recall Walker (he already survived that challenge) or to somehow overcome the post-2010 gerrymandering that sees Democrats get about 60% of the votes for Assembly seats while walking away with about 40% of the actual seats.
So Kasich is taking the kinder, gentler approach with unions these days after having his nose bloodied the first time, and Walker is just blithely doing whatever the shit he feels like.
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