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This is what Rush is talking about:

Democrats missing from Wis. Capitol ahead of union vote (Police looking for them)
www.chron.com ^ | 2/17/2011

Posted on Thursday, February 17, 2011 1:34:54 PM by dragnet2
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2675325/posts
MADISON, Wis. ­ Police officers are looking for Democratic Wisconsin lawmakers who were ordered to attend a vote on a bill that would strip public employees of collective bargaining rights.

No Democrats showed up for Thursday’s Senate session, meaning a vote cannot be taken. Republicans need one Democratic senator to be present. Calls to Democratic leaders were not immediately returned.

Republicans are pushing the anti-union bill proposed by GOP Gov. Scott Walker. Thousands of people clogged the halls of the Statehouse for a third straight day in opposition.

Protesters clogged the hallways of the Wisconsin state Capitol on Thursday as the Senate prepared to pass a momentous bill that would strip government workers, including school teachers, of nearly all collective bargaining rights.

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91 posted on 02/17/2011 10:41:34 AM PST by Matchett-PI (Trent Lott on Tea Party candidates: "As soon as they get here, we need to co-opt them" 7/19/10)
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To: Matchett-PI

They’re calling the Governor a “dictator.”

Actually, it’s the Public Sector Unions who are a mob of petty tyrants.


93 posted on 02/17/2011 10:42:34 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia (Forcing one person to pay for the irresponsibility of another is NOT social justice.)
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To: Matchett-PI

Does anybody know where the photo of the Governor of Wis. with crosshairs was found?


96 posted on 02/17/2011 10:48:21 AM PST by Never on my watch (WTF happened to my country?)
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To: Matchett-PI; Clint N. Suhks

Did Rush just say that Gov Walker’s bill includes a provision that allows government workers to opt out of union, and that THAT’s why Obama is scrutinizing the events so closely.


100 posted on 02/17/2011 10:52:55 AM PST by thouworm
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