Capitol is cleared of demonstrators for 1st time in 17 nights after judge orders building closed during non-business hours
MADISON, Wis. — Thousands of Wisconsin state workers were bracing for layoff notices Friday as Republican Gov. Scott Walker and absent Democrats remained in a standoff over a budget balancing bill that would also strip public workers of their collective bargaining rights.
Walker said he would issue 1,500 layoff notices Friday if at least one of the 14 Senate Democrats doesn't return from Illinois to give the Republican majority the quorum it needs to vote. Senate Republicans voted Thursday to hold the missing Democrats in contempt and force police to bring them back to the Capitol.
GOOOD for him. Glad he has the courage. I wonder how many death threats he has had or his family? you WILL NOT hear that on the news.
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ReplyDeleteThe democrats don't believe in democracy and are holding Wisconsin tax payers hostage.
ReplyDeleteAny GOP senator that defects faces a severe teabagging during the primaries. If they go along they face opposition for attempting this extremist overreach in the first place. Damned if they do, damned if they don't.. It is too late for their only sensible and morally prudent option, which was not to vote for Walkers country club crowd tax cuts which created these phony deficits. Or their other prudent option which was not to propose this horrendous bill in the first place.
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