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Missing Wisconsin Dem speaks: We're MIA until GOP drops assault on workers rights (Impeach 'em!)
washington post ^ | 2/17/2011 | Greg Sargent

Posted on 02/17/2011 2:54:47 PM PST by tobyhill

just got off the phone with Wisconsin State Senator Chris Larson, one of the Democrats who has left the capitol in order to stall the GOP's plan to rolll back the bargaining rights of public employees. Speaking to me by cell phone from an undisclosed location, Larson said he and his fellow Democrats would not return until the GOP takes its assault on organizing rights "off the table."

"Each of us is in a secure location," he told me, confirming that they were not all together but were monitoring events on the Web and on Twitter. Larson refused to say whether he and his fellow Dems had left the state, as some have speculated.

(Excerpt) Read more at voices.washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Wisconsin
KEYWORDS: broke; chickends; clocktower; cowards; democrats; illinois; iowa; ofa; strike; union; unions; walker; wi; wisconsin; wisconsinshowdown
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To: Gabrial

These people are just a bunch of spineless Piss Ant, who want to have it both ways. They don’t want to cut the budget to help the tax payers, yet they expect their fellow travelers to be protected at any cost. What a bunch of Know nothing, Union Thugs and third rate turds.


141 posted on 02/17/2011 4:36:21 PM PST by BooBoo1000
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To: Defend Liberty
Please enlighten me oh superior Freeper exactly what is the Tea Party doing to counteract the socialists disrupting the process?

Interestingly, the only person on this thread to mention TeaParty is you, hack. Try your BS elsewhere.

142 posted on 02/17/2011 4:37:20 PM PST by ScreamingFist (Quiet the Idiot)
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To: tobyhill

Who else can leave their jobs on a whim, intending to return at a time of their own choosing aside from government employees and government officials?


143 posted on 02/17/2011 4:38:38 PM PST by windsorknot
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To: TruthConquers

I was half-joking about “Deem and Pass” which is the stunt used to “pass” Obamacare.

I pray that WI is resolved honorably for the cause of Justice.


144 posted on 02/17/2011 4:41:08 PM PST by ROTB (Sans Christian revival, we are government slaves, or nuked by China/Russia when we finally revolt.)
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To: taxcontrol

Well thought out and expressed.


145 posted on 02/17/2011 4:41:46 PM PST by sanjuanbob
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To: KansasGirl

What if a family member desperately needed to contact one of them with some urgent medical need?


146 posted on 02/17/2011 4:45:28 PM PST by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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To: brewcrew

Do they have to be alive?


147 posted on 02/17/2011 4:46:53 PM PST by SgtHooper (The last thing I want to do is hurt you. But it's still on the list.)
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To: bigbob

At least they have jobs. A lot of people have lost theirs or are worried they’re going to lose their job. This is just ridiculous.


148 posted on 02/17/2011 4:57:53 PM PST by virgil
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To: potlatch

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Socialism is cancerous and deadly in the state of Wisconsin -

Perhaps Americans can buy their cheese and other products from other states until the radical left gets tired of starving.

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149 posted on 02/17/2011 5:00:18 PM PST by devolve (. . . . . . . . . . . . "- we*ll bring a gun!" . . . . alias Jimmy Qaeda II . . .)
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To: Defend Liberty

They have supposedly left the Clock Tower in Rockford, Il now because the Rockford Tea Party Patriots called for an impromptu rally there....Good enough?


150 posted on 02/17/2011 5:04:23 PM PST by Safetgiver (I'd rather die under a free American sky than live under a Socialist regime.)
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To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA

You’re a damned embarrassement.


151 posted on 02/17/2011 5:04:46 PM PST by BenKenobi (Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong. - Silent Cal)
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To: Safetgiver
They have supposedly left the Clock Tower in Rockford, Il now because the Rockford Tea Party Patriots called for an impromptu rally there....Good enough?

Great if that's true! Do the Wisconsin Tea Partiers have anything planned for gathering at the state capitol?
152 posted on 02/17/2011 5:09:36 PM PST by Defend Liberty
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To: devolve

I’ve read today that Walker proposed to do this before he was voted in!

Down with the unions, fire the bad teachers, etc.


153 posted on 02/17/2011 5:11:08 PM PST by potlatch ( !/ ~*coincidences usually aren't *~\!)
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To: tobyhill

Declare a state of emergency. Cut off their State Credit Cards, end their expense accounts and then have the highest court grant an injunction declaring that the qurorum for the Senate is reduced by the number of Senators out of the State during an emergency. They will be back really quick.


154 posted on 02/17/2011 5:12:22 PM PST by Shady (Our quest is to rebuild the United States of America as it was founded by the Founders!)
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To: ROTB

I see. The Dems did do that with DeathCare.

Thanks.


155 posted on 02/17/2011 5:23:11 PM PST by TruthConquers ( Delendae sunt publicae scholae)
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To: tobyhill

“Each of us is in a secure location,” he told me, confirming that they were not all together but were monitoring events on the Web and on Twitter. Larson refused to say whether he and his fellow Dems had left the state.

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Well, you could try calling them at home...

Chris Larson
3261 S. Herman Street
Milwaukee, WI 53207
(414) 482-3315

Tim Carpenter
2957 South 38th Street
Milwaukee, WI 53215
(414) 383-7223

Spencer Coggs
7819 W. Potomac Ave.
Milwaukee, WI 53222
(414) 442-0739

Timothy Cullen
3711 N. Spring Hill Drive
Janesville, WI 53545
(608) 754-6537

Jon B Erpenbach
6724 Aldo Leopold Way
Middleton, WI 53562-1198
(608) 833-4992

Dave Hansen
3489 Blackwolf Run
Green Bay, WI 54311
(920) 492-2200

Jim Holperin
3575 Monheim Road
Conover, WI 54519
(715) 479-7874

Robert Jauch
5271 South Maple Drive
Poplar, WI 54864
(715) 364-2438

Julie Lassa
4901 Beaver Dam Road
Stevens Point, WI 54482
(715) 342-0526

Mark Miller
4903 Roigan Terrace
Monona, WI 53716
(608) 221-2701

Fred Risser
100 Wisconsin Avenue
Unit 501, Madison, WI 53703
(608) 238-5008

Lena Taylor
1518 West Capitol
Milwaukee, 53206
(414) 342-7176

Kathleen Vinehout
W1490 Cesler Valley Road
Alma, WI 54610
(608) 685-3508

Robert Wirch
3007 Springbrook Road
Pleasant Prairie, WI 53158
(262) 694-7379


156 posted on 02/17/2011 5:38:29 PM PST by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate Republicans Freed the Slaves Month)
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To: tobyhill
Do the Republicans have a quorum? If they do proceed without the Dems like Pelosi and Reid did nationally.
157 posted on 02/17/2011 5:39:38 PM PST by Captain Peter Blood (.)
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To: BenKenobi

I see nothing in my #130 to be embarrassed for. Least of all, before you.


158 posted on 02/17/2011 5:58:21 PM PST by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: tobyhill

GRRRRRRREAT solutions from many FReepers! BTTT!


159 posted on 02/17/2011 6:04:11 PM PST by PGalt
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To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA

Communist Broadcasting Centre?

Why would you rely on their opinion for anything? They are terrible.


160 posted on 02/17/2011 6:17:59 PM PST by BenKenobi (Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong. - Silent Cal)
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