From the Politico:

National Republicans are launching a counteroffensive in the symbolically charged fight for control of the Wisconsin Senate, targeting two Democratic state senators with an ad campaign aimed at keeping the chamber in the GOP’s hands.

The Republican State Leadership Committee is expanding a television ad campaign against Democratic state Sen. Jim Holperin and launching a media blitz against state Sen. Dave Hansen, a member of the Democratic leadership.

Holperin and Hansen were among 14 Democratic lawmakers who fled Wisconsin to block a vote in the state Senate on a Republican-backed plan to scale back public-sector union rights.

Republicans ultimately passed the labor law in the Democrats’ absence by separating it from a larger budget bill. Implementation of the collective-bargaining law has been halted until a court challenge is resolved.

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