Access

I think Ezra Klein has the right take on the prank call where Ian Murphy rung up Scott Walker while pretending to be David Koch:

But if the transcript of the conversation is unexceptional, the fact of it is lethal. The state's Democratic senators can't get Walker on the phone, but someone can call the governor's front desk, identify themselves as David Koch, and then speak with both the governor and his chief of staff? That's where you see the access and power that major corporations and wealthy contributors will have in a Walker administration, and why so many in Wisconsin are reluctant to see the only major interest group representing workers taken out of the game.

I think it would be interesting to imagine a world in which David Koch stood no better chance of talking to the Governor of Wisconsin than did any other private citizen who's not a resident of a state. Imagine a world in which every single one of Scott Walker's constituents had more access to Scott Walker than does a rich out of state donor. And imagine the richest man in Wisconsin had equal access to Walker as the poorest. Try to imagine it. I think that if we lived in that world, people would have a very different reaction to complaints about the disproportionate political influence of labor unions.