Comedy | February 24, 2011 | 29 comments

State troopers sent to find Wisconsin Democrats

source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110224/ap_on_re_us/us_wisconsin_budget_unions

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MADISON, Wis. – Wisconsin state troopers were dispatched Thursday to find at least one of the 14 Senate Democrats who have been on the run for eight days to delay a vote on Republican Gov. Scott Walker's proposal to strip collective bargaining rights from nearly all public employees.
Meanwhile, after more than 43 hours of debate, Democrats in the state Assembly agreed to limit the number of remaining amendments and time spent on each in order to reach a vote on the union rights bill sometime later in the day.
The early morning action was designed to force a vote on Walker's bill that has made Wisconsin the focus of a multiple state effort to curb union rights.
The Senate convened for long enough to make a call of the house, which allows for the sergeant at arms staff to go to missing lawmakers' homes with police. The lawmakers can't be arrested, but Republican Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald said he hoped the move would pressure them to return. He would not say how many Democrats were being targeted, but said it was more than one.
"Every night we hear about some that are coming back home," Fitzgerald said.
But Democratic Sen. Jon Erpenbach, who was in the Chicago area, said all 14 senators remained outside of Wisconsin on Thursday morning and would not return until Walker was willing to compromise.
"It's not so much the Democrats holding things up, it's really a matter of Gov. Walker holding things up," Erpenbach said.
Tens of thousands of people have protested the bill for nine straight days, with hundreds spending the night in sleeping bags on the hard marble floor of the Capitol as the debate was broadcast on monitors in the rotunda. Many still were sleeping when the deal to only debate 38 more amendments, for no more than 10 minutes each, was announced shortly after 6 a.m. The timing of the agreement means the vote could come as soon as noon Thursday.
"We will strongly make our points, but understand you are limiting the voice of the public as you do this," said Democratic state Rep. Mark Pocan of Madison. "You can't dictate democracy. You are limiting the people's voice with this agreement this morning."

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29 comments // State troopers sent to find Wisconsin Democrats

  • Camille_Jackson
  • Paratus
    • 0
      Paratus  

    • Reminds me of the Attack of the Killer Rabbit in Monty Python. "Run away, run away". Walker was elected to do a job. He is trying to do it. November 2 was a statement. The people are tired and they want fiscal responsibility. The missing Dems are guilty of nonfeasance at least. The people of Wisconsin should recall each and every one of them. The communists in charge of these demonstrations should be run out of town. They are giving good people a bad name.

    • 1 year ago
  • TheAmericanPatriot
  • Leen61
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      Leen61  

    • The Dems are not coming back home to WI until Walker concedes to negotiate, which he won't do, or hopefully the Koch prank will lead to ehtics violation charges.

    • 1 year ago
  • bailey78
  • samthesixth
  • twinite
  • PoliticalAmazon
  • Leen61
  • fudoki
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      fudoki  

    • Under the new definition of a "Small Business" promulgated by Pres. Bush, a "Small Business" is no longer $15mil and below, it's LESS THAN 100 OWNERS. This makes the Koch Brothers $50-100Billion empire a "Small Business", and under the extended Bush tax cuts, funded by Republican borrowing from China, for the top 2%, those billionaires don't pay BILLIONS in taxes, financed by the debt they point to as a reason to cheat all Americans out of their pensions and Social Security they have paid for their entire lives! Yet Americans continue to ELECT these swine. Being in the "top 2%", all I can say is, "You're gonna get what your dumb asses are voting for..." POVERTY.

    • 1 year ago
  • dadevil
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      dadevil  
    • Image

    • Unfortunately, America is more divided today than ever.

      Our extreme affluence has kept the thin veneer of civilization that we all take for granted from disappearing so far, but once our affluence is gone all of the hate and frustration in society is going to come bubbling to the surface and it is going to be horrifying to behold.
      Once the economic collapse happens, most Americans are not going to take it sitting down. Most Americans are going to want someone to blame. Most Americans are going to want to lash out somehow.

      There is no way out of this nightmare under the current system. Taxing people more is not going to solve our problems.

      http://www.presstv.ir/usdetail/165904.html

      Taxing people less is not going to solve our problems.

    • 1 year ago
  • Warren_Merrill
  • ConcernedAboutRFuture
  • MikeMaddigan
  • PoliticalAmazon
  • ConcernedAboutRFuture
  • bambuu
    • +7
      bambuu  

    • This is one of the best tweets I've read:

      @jennnnie
      jennnnie
      Why is a 3% tax increase on the richest considered "socialism" but a 14% pay cut on the middle class is "doing your part?" #wiunion

    • 1 year ago
  • mitekillem
  • Warren_Merrill
  • thedirtman
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      thedirtman  
    • bambuu:

      Well, because they earned it! One of the Koch boys answers the phone = $2 million. Ka-ching! He earned it! A teacher babysits all day with 40 kids only to go home and mark papers < $40,000 a year because there is a depression going and they must make sacrifices.

      Now, if you understand please explain this to me.

    • 1 year ago
  • ze
  • SoCalFramer
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      SoCalFramer  

    • The democrats will return and vote to cover thier asses and then say we stayed away as long as we could. They expect people out of work to live on $400 a week, why can't they weaklings survive for a few weeks. They don't have any savings ? Bullshit, as soon as the camera lights go out these guys will return and stand behind the governor and say we did our best.

    • 1 year ago
  • noxidereus
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      noxidereus  
    • SoCalFramer:

      Note to people voting this comment down: Democrats do indeed pull stuff like this. The public option debate was a song and dance. There was never any intention of having a public option in the health reform bill. They allowed Democrats to argue and pretend to support the public option, and they also got to please their corporate donors as well. They got their cake and ate it too. Go ahead and vote me down too, I could not care less... but it would be more productive if you opened your eyes instead.

    • 1 year ago
  • PoliticalAmazon
  • PoliticalAmazon
  • samthesixth
  • twinite
    • +5
      twinite  

    • It absolutely baffles my mind that people will support an idea that is completely against their best interests. The ONLY benefit to busting the unions is to make the rich richer....­and guess what, it STILL wont trickle down.

    • 1 year ago
  • ConcernedAboutRFuture
  • twinite
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