Posted on 02/18/2011 10:56:22 AM PST by Innovative
Republican Senate leaders dispatched state troopers to begin looking for the Democratic senators who disappeared on Thursday, effectively preventing a vote from taking place. And Republican leaders in the State Assembly, where Democrats do not hold enough seats to prevent a quorum, said Friday that a vote might soon take place there.
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I wonder what their constituents think of this.
What would happen to an employee who just wouldn't show up for work for days or weeks on end, preventing the business from doing what they need to do?!
A little patience is required. Every day the teachers continue to close the schools, they are losing public support. I recommend that Scott Walker and the Repubs just go about their business. The Dems will have to slink back sooner or later. Meanwhle, the Repubs can pass concealed carry and Voter ID.
Since the dems broke the law by hiding out, the republicans should break the law and vote on it without them.
Have our intrepid Tea Partiers tracked them down yet. I think that they left the Clocktower Resort, but I haven’t heard an update on their current location(s?).
If Wisconsin fires every striking teacher and replaces them ASAP, the Dems will come out of hiding.
Such a hilariously biased headline, in this sense: Imagine what the NYTimes headline would have been if the GOP legislators, instead of Dems, were the ones fleeing the state like petulant children.
Let the communists have it all, and see how long it takes the checks to start bouncing.
A hard love type stunt that will avoid these nitwits burning the capital building and whatever else gets in their path when they cut loose. People need to understand which side the police are on in these type events. It is not yours, for those who don't already know.
If an employee fails to report to work as scheduled or to contact the employee's supervisor for a minimum of 5 consecutive work days, the Division appointing authority shall:
Initiate attempts to communicate with the employee to determine the reason for their failure to report for work. Written communication, instructing the employee to attend an investigatory meeting for unexcused absenteeism must be sent to the employee's last known address via regular and certified U. S. Postal Mail Service. Progressive discipline, up to and including termination, may be imposed for unexcused absences.
Review all information obtained regarding an employee's failure to report for work. Ensure due process is provided to the employee. Determine appropriate course of action. If a leave of absence is requested for medical or personal reasons, provide the employee with the appropriate paperwork for completion.
Just “deem” it passed
There-in lies the rub. All they have to do is call in.
I hope a bounty is being offered for them, if not cash then some form of tax exemption or free fuel for a year to any citizen finding them.
Any or all should be considered for every state governor, this isn’t the first time the rats try to run and hide, and I think it will be this years strategy all across America.
Not one honest, upstanding Rat in the whole legislature. Sad...
To the Wisconsin GOP:
DEEM - IT - PASSED.
Take a lesson from Pelosi and Reid.
Balls are wonderful things....when you HAVE them.
You have the Governor backing you up. Do it.
Making Wisconsin a right-to-work state would not be an appropriations bill, and would also not require the Dems in order to make quorum.
Gov. Walker should take all the GOP legislators hunt down just one Dim legislator and then call a vote.
I have a hunch that, if I called in and said I wasn’t coming in because I didn’t like the way things were being done, I’d still be out a job. :-)
GOP need to use their brains. There are many pro GOP bills that can be passed without Dem presence. It is like the Soviet Union walking out of the UN at the outbreak of the Korean War. No one was there to veto US request for UN troops to defend South Korea. Them Russians regretted the day they did that.
@ #15
Ooh, that is a good one. It would make sections of the budget repair bill almost moot as it would end unions altogether. Wouldn’t that be poetic justice? I doubt the Repubs have the cajones for that, though. So sad, too bad:(
I heard a spokeswoman for the teachers’ union on the radio half an hour ago. She said that if the state dared to try to dock the salaries of any of the teachers for the protests (i.e. not pay their “sick days”), the union would make the process so expensive that the state would give up.
Gad I despise these people.
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