It's not as though those funds produce anything, other than their usual product mix of course; fear, hate, envy, and misinformation. Even so, the profit margins on that must be impressive. Union bosses do very well, so well they are willing to spend a lot of other peoples money to keep the gravy train running.  

Michael Barone weighs in;  

Next Tuesday voters will have their say in an election for state Supreme Court. Incumbent Republican David Prosser is being challenged by Democrat JoAnne Kloppenburg, who is giving strong hints that she'll uphold a dubious ruling by a lower court that the legislature acted illegally in limiting public employee unions' powers. A Prosser defeat would give Democrats a 4-3 edge on the court.

Off-year elections tend to have low turnout, and the public employee unions are working hard to get their voters out. It's unclear whether Tea Partiers and others whose enthusiasm and energy transformed Wisconsin from a 56-42 percent Obama state in 2008 to a 52-46 percent Walker state in 2010 will be similarly energized.

Note the underlining.  It's not as though this isn't obvious.  It is as predictable as the sun rising in the east that when they can't legislate, they litigate, but they never ever rest, and we shouldn't either.  

Vote Prosser next Tuesday but don't think of it so much as an off-year Supreme Court race.  Think of it more as an endorsement of elections in general, because to the left, this is all, and only, about reversing the result of last November, and it has become ever more clear they will go to any means to achieve that end.  Any rules in place to facilitate that goal are meaningful only to the extent they work in their favor, if not, scorched earth.   

I don't believe TEA Party has given up, but there is always cause for concern when mainstream media, declining or not, and left/liberal forces, pardon the redundancy, collude.  Goldstein is right.  We need to fight back and still, our most powerful weapon is the ballot box - - until they find a way to steal that too.  

The 6% public unions carrying this election would be a triumph of tyranny.  Whether that would be a fatal blow to the TEA Party is another question.  I really do not want to see what happens if the recently awakened giant gets wounded.   Despite more than ample provocation its gentle nature has remained in tact - - so far.  

UPDATE: Editorial in National Review

sample: 

When you’ve lost the election, lost the vote in the legislature, and don’t have the law on your side, lies, invective, and blunt force — the Left’s main weapons in Wisconsin — are what you have left. Expect to see a lot more of them deployed. 

Reminder: the assholes play for keeps AND they really don't mind being assholes.