You Call Yourself a Cadillac
"Chancellor Martin asked Governor Walker for a Chevrolet, and he graciously offered her a Cadillac. We [the Badger Advocates ] are here to make sure she gets that Cadillac." This is the explanation offered by Pete Christianson (Badger Advocate chairman and immediate past-president of the Wisconsin Alumni Association ) for the emergence of a private lobbying group devoted to advancing Chancellor Biddy Martin's New Badger Partnership . He made the statement at a Friday afternoon meeting of PROFS . Listening to Pete go on about the virtues of the Martin-Walker partnership, Robert Nighthawk's old blues song immediately came to mind..."You call yourself a Cadillac but you act just like a T Model Ford...You call yourself my baby but you still don't treat me right..." What we the people of Wisconsin deserve to know is what's under the hood of that Cadillac ? Seems like a reasonable question, but all we're told is that the NBP runs on flexibilities. ...