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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: RobertClark

I just called and they aren’t there.


41 posted on 02/17/2011 3:10:28 PM PST by kcvl
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To: Secret Agent Man
The question would arise does deliberately disobeying the law by not showing up when required constitute a senator vacating his seat?

Declare the seats vacant if they aren't back for the opening of the Senate tomorrow, and let the courts figure it all out years down the road. If a judge decides for an injunction, just ignore it like Obama is doing regarding his unconstitutional HC bill.

42 posted on 02/17/2011 3:10:49 PM PST by Carling (Obama: Inexperienced and incompetent, yet ego maniacal. God help us all.)
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To: TexasPatriot1; waynesa98

Actually, it’s simply that there has to be a quorum of 20 (given the current number of legislators). There are only 19 GOPers. There are far fewer Dems, but if there is not at least one of them at the vote, there won’t be a quorum.


43 posted on 02/17/2011 3:11:07 PM PST by livius
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To: Secret Agent Man

lol, now that would be funny. Hold elections for “scabs” or “replacements”. I am sure there would be candidates who would step forward.


44 posted on 02/17/2011 3:11:25 PM PST by FreeAtlanta (Obama and the left are making a mockery of our country.)
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To: tobyhill

Just wait them out. I don’t see the problem here. They going to sit out the entire session?


45 posted on 02/17/2011 3:11:28 PM PST by SaxxonWoods
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To: tobyhill

I recall a radio interview with a Republican Texas state senator, many years ago; when the GOP senators were hiding out, to stop passage of some bill. The reclusive Senator was asked whether he feared the voters would punish him, at the next election. He replied (in a thick drawl): “the only way a sitting Texas Senator won’t be reelected; is if he’s caught in bed with a live man, or a dead woman”. The (female) interviewer sputtered and stammered, but was otherwise rendered speechless.


46 posted on 02/17/2011 3:11:40 PM PST by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: TruthConquers

Yes, apparently, they need 20 people.
There are only 19 Repubs.

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“Deem and pass” a change in quorum rules.

;)


47 posted on 02/17/2011 3:11:50 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: TruthConquers

Some enterprising private citizens need to go taze them, throw them in vans, and dump their tied-up, beaten, bodies on the floor of the house so a vote can be taken.


48 posted on 02/17/2011 3:11:57 PM PST by TheThirdRuffian (Nothing to see here. Move along.)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

The rules are typically set up this way so that majority rule cannot dominate - only supermajority rules. Which is fine. When Republicans were in the minority, it kept some really nasty Democrat hanky panky from happening.

Yet, to my knowledge, I’ve never seen a Republican caucus go AWOL to prevent a vote from happening. Only Democrats apparently do that.


49 posted on 02/17/2011 3:12:00 PM PST by OrangeHoof (Washington, we Texans want a divorce!)
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To: tobyhill
According to the Twitter account of Democrat State Senator Chris Larson from Bay View, "For those looking for us, we are right here, standing with the people of Wisconsin."

In Illinois.

50 posted on 02/17/2011 3:13:10 PM PST by GVnana
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To: tobyhill

Hmm.... what would a real President do?

Popcorn, I am going to need to stock up on popcorn.

It seems that some are having trouble adjusting to their leaders dream/promise of “Redistributing the Wealth”.

It is times like this that makes me wish I had learned how to brew my own beer. LMAO


51 posted on 02/17/2011 3:13:19 PM PST by Gator113 (I'm voting for Sarah Palin, Liberty, our Constitution and American Exceptionalism.)
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To: OrangeHoof

are their similar rules for congress? and if so why didn’t the Republicans just walk out of the lame duck session?


52 posted on 02/17/2011 3:13:30 PM PST by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama = Epic Fail)
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To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA

“GOP senators were hiding out”

I am fairly certain that was the Democrats, and it was two years ago.

The “he’s caught in bed with a live [boy’, or a dead woman” quote was about the Governor of Louisiana, many years ago.


53 posted on 02/17/2011 3:14:02 PM PST by TheThirdRuffian (Nothing to see here. Move along.)
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To: TexasPatriot1

There must be one Democrat present for the vote. That’s why they all left town.


54 posted on 02/17/2011 3:14:36 PM PST by GVnana
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To: tobyhill

I do hope the Republicans planned for something like this and have an effective response, even if it’s just a PR battle. Common guys, you can’t win a war without strategy and planning, not to mention backbone.


55 posted on 02/17/2011 3:14:43 PM PST by Batrachian (9/11 confirmed everything I already knew about Islam. Not that it needed much confirming.)
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To: tobyhill
MIA? I'd say more like AWOL.

This has to be an actionable situation, otherwise, the legislature is paralyzed. I hope the Repubs find a loophole.

56 posted on 02/17/2011 3:14:46 PM PST by fwdude (Anita Bryant was right.)
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To: tobyhill

Is there a statute in Wisconsin that declares a political office ‘abandoned’? That needs to be pursued. If they don’t show up for a number of days, they’ve abandoned their office, and they should hold special elections to fill vacant seats.


57 posted on 02/17/2011 3:15:04 PM PST by Keith in Iowa (FR Class of 1998 | TV News is an oxymoron. | MSNBC = Moonbats Spouting Nothing But Crap.)
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To: TheThirdRuffian

That could be like a citizen’s arrest.

Sounds good to me. Might even be an option, seeing the police can’t find them yet. I wonder how hard they are trying to do their job? Police are unions too.


58 posted on 02/17/2011 3:15:14 PM PST by TruthConquers ( Delendae sunt publicae scholae)
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To: tobyhill
Missing Wisconsin Dem speaks: We're MIA until GOP drops assault on workers rights (Impeach 'em!)

Or just put a hold on their paychecks until the socialist rats show up. I don't know how much the demoRAT senators get paid or what their per diem is, but I would hope that Gov Walker & the state AG would just freeze any paychecks going to these traitors. Plus fine them $100 per day that they are missing from the WI senate.

59 posted on 02/17/2011 3:16:31 PM PST by rcrngroup
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To: kcvl
Oh, they are there:
Link Here
I just called and was told they were not there, the extent of my conversation went as follows:

I am with KMTV news and am en route with a camera crew. I would prefer not to embarrass you upon my arrival, but I assure you I will turn your location into a circus with a few phone calls, now do you still say they are not there?

After a brief silence, I was told they were instructed to not transfer calls and the phone hung up.

60 posted on 02/17/2011 3:17:47 PM PST by RobertClark (On a long enough timeline the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.)
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