The issue focused on the state of the state's public schools, as well as how the state's teachers' unions have played in the political climate.

"The teachers' unions don't want to pay their workers a fair wage; they want to keep them employed by threatening them with layoffs," said Scott Brown, the governor's former chief of staff, during a 2011 campaign rally in Madison, Wis., where he was a state legislator. "That's what the teachers' unions do. That's why the