The previous Governor of Wisconsin was a Democrat and not a very nice one. He probably wasn’t sending the payments required to MN. I don’t know. All I know is that he left a $60m bill owed.
My sister and her family live in the Madison area. She says that Doyle spent every bit of money that was in the Wisconsin coffers, including all the public employees’ pension money, and any other caches that were there; Doyle left behind such a fiscal mess that the usually liberal Wisconsin voters voted out most of the Democrat constitutional officers plus the Senators & House Representatives in 2010.
That is why the virtual eruption of the body politic in Madison in January-February 2011. The WI voters literally threw the crooks out of office.