I hope, hope, HOPE someone has the audio/video of the Senate Chamber when Decker voted no. How delicious that moment had to be.
Decker a no vote, He gets it
Senate Majority Leader Russ Decker, the Weston Dem defeated in the fall election, voted against state worker contracts.
Gov. Jim Doyle stopped work on high speed rail at the request of Gov.-elect Scott Walker, “recognizing that elections have consequences,” Decker said.
Doyle and should have done the same with state contracts, he said.
Decker said the contracts should have been before the Legislature prior to the election.
“If these contracts had been brought to us before the election, as they should have been, this would have been an entirely different situation,” he said.
“While I would obviously have rather seen a different outcome in the election ... the people of Wisconsin have spoken. They have said they want someone else making these decisions for them. There is no reason the next Legislature cannot take up these contracts.
“Now that the election has been held and the voters have spoken, I do not feel comfortable casting a vote in favor of these contracts.”