In Wisconsin, newly disclosed emails show Republican Gov. Scott Walker has been willing to negotiate on his anti-union bill despite repeated claims the state is unable to compromise. Walker has cited budget woes to push through a plan that would restrict collective bargaining to wages only, tie raises to the Consumer Price Index, and require annual union votes on whether workers still want to be members. Although the emails show Walker has offered concessions despite publicly dismissing talks, critics say his overtures have not gone far enough. As Walker seeks to slash the wages and benefits of public employees, members of his own party have been shown to have received hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxpayer funds. According to the Huffington Post, Republican State Senators Luther Olsen, Dale Schultz and Sheila Harsdorf all had stakes in Wisconsin farms that netted more than $300,000 in government subsidies between 1995 and 2009.