Borrowing funds to keep the Bucks in Milwaukee has drawn criticism even from allies and stands at odds with Walker’s declarations in support of fiscal prudence and protecting taxpayers from long-term debt.

Year-end reports filed with the campaign finance board found the Republican Party of Minnesota (RPM) still weighed down by debts accumulated years before, and considerably worse off financially than the DFL Party.

Legislative debates on the issue are generally badly informed, partisan-driven, or woefully devoid of fact-based impartial evidence.

To hear the left tell it, they are the plucky little Davids against a growing tide of conservative corporate cash threatening to drown politics in oligarchic money.