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AWOL Wisconsin Democrat calls CNN with list of demands (RAT Fleas hold children hostage)
Daily Caller ^ | 2/17/11 | Mary Katharine Ham

Posted on 02/18/2011 7:29:46 AM PST by Libloather

AWOL Wisconsin Democrat calls CNN with list of demands
By Mary Katharine Ham - The Daily Caller
Updated: 4:31 PM 02/17/2011

State Senator Mark Miller, a member of the missing band of Wisconsin Democratic lawmakers who fled Madison Thursday to avoid a vote on a budget bill, called into CNN with the group’s list of demands for Republican Gov. Scott Walker.

Miller, a state senator since 2004, would not disclose where he and his colleagues were hiding out, saying only “we are in what we consider a secure location outside the capital. We are not all in one place at this time.”

Miller’s demands focused on the collective bargaining portions of the bill.

“We demand that the provisions that completely eliminate the ability of workers… to negotiate on a fair basis with their employers be removed from the budget repair bill and any other future budget,” Miller said.

He also demanded legislative oversight on changes to the state’s medical programs, which are targeted for changes in the bill. The bill would also require union members to contribute to their health care and pensions.

Miller and 13 other Democrats went missing Thursday morning when a vote on a budget-repair measure was imminent in the Republican-controlled Senate. It would have passed the Senate after getting out of committee on a party-line vote late last night, so Democrats left the building to stall a vote on the measure.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; US: Wisconsin
KEYWORDS: awol; cnn; corruption; democratcorruption; democrats; extortion; hostages; liberalfascism; liberals; obama; obamasminions; progressives; unioncorruption; unions; walker; wisconsin; wisconsinshowdown
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To: Libloather

Remember the recent lame duck session when the Republicans held their ground for keeping the Bush tax cuts and the Democrats referred to Republicans as “hostage-takers” in their daily mantra?

Now the Democrats in Wisconsin are not “hostage-takers” for halting all legislative activity until they get their way. Oh, no. They’re “patriots fighting for working people.”

The media is so biased, the stench penetrates even the most clogged of nostrils.


41 posted on 02/18/2011 8:01:21 AM PST by OrangeHoof (Washington, we Texans want a divorce!)
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To: traditional1

With a twenty year trial period.


42 posted on 02/18/2011 8:01:53 AM PST by devistate one four ( AARP: Anti America Retired People Kimber CDP II .45 OORAH! TET68)
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To: SeeSac

Very well said. This naysayer if he knows it all should be able to come up with a winning strategy. Either get on the team or go home!


43 posted on 02/18/2011 8:06:28 AM PST by GilGil
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To: SeeSac

Very well said. This naysayer if he knows it all should be able to come up with a winning strategy. Either get on the team or go home!


44 posted on 02/18/2011 8:06:33 AM PST by GilGil
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To: Lazamataz

“Good Lord. Remind me to position my foxhole far from yours, if there ever is a shooting war! “

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+1


45 posted on 02/18/2011 8:06:46 AM PST by dagogo redux (A whiff of primitive spirits in the air, harbingers of an impending descent into the feral.)
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To: Libloather
Democrats aren't in any position to negotiate. They spent the country into oblivion, and the voters know it.
Now is the time to expose big spending democrats. Make them defend their massive union spending.

Make public the teachers union donations to those democrats who are now protecting them. Let the tax payers see the "$$ favors $$" between these two.

46 posted on 02/18/2011 8:09:42 AM PST by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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To: ClearCase_guy
It’s time for the Bowman option.

I think it's coming, if this continues apace. Cindy Caswell could probably take a few of these Dem Senators with her charms, too.

Thrilling and frightening at the same time, ain't it? We are seeing the beginnings of Civil War II.

47 posted on 02/18/2011 8:11:44 AM PST by backwoods-engineer (Any politician who holds that the state accords rights is an oathbreaker and an "enemy... domestic.")
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To: Libloather
DEMANDS??

A "lawmaker" who has demands of the governor before he'll do his job? Aside from union fascists, who else can make demands of their co-workers before they'll agree to do their jobs and not be fired?

48 posted on 02/18/2011 8:12:39 AM PST by FourPeas
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To: Libloather

Declare the seats abandoned, schedule the special election, and recognize the reduced quorum requirement until then. Problem solved.


49 posted on 02/18/2011 8:14:17 AM PST by NonValueAdded (Palin 2012: don't retreat, just restock [chg'd to comply w/ The Civility in Discourse Act of 2011])
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To: reegs
My understanding is that the governor is simply asking for the union members to begin paying for HALF OF THEIR BENEFITS????

Not even that much. I heard 12.5% of their health insurance and about 6% of their retirement. I have to pay 50% of my insurance and 100% of my retirement. Cry me a river, union leeches.

50 posted on 02/18/2011 8:15:39 AM PST by KarlInOhio (Washington is finally rid of the Kennedies. Free at last, thank God almighty we are free at last.)
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To: Old Teufel Hunden
The guy said they're not all in the same place ~ which means at least one of them has gone to consult directly with the Obamistas in DC.

Odds are good that he's staying at a Virginia hotel/motel ~ probably in Springfield.

I'll look around for a cheesehead today and if I see one I'll bag and tag him and prepare to ship him back FedEx ~ that way he'll be there by Monday morning.

51 posted on 02/18/2011 8:15:42 AM PST by muawiyah
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To: Tupelo

Have faith, Tupelo:)


52 posted on 02/18/2011 8:18:30 AM PST by chickadee
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To: kittymyrib
And by the way, where are the TEA Party members in WI? Why aren’t they standing with the governor and GOP newcomers in this fight?

From what I understand, the TEA Party support rally will be on the capitol steps tomorrow.

53 posted on 02/18/2011 8:23:27 AM PST by houeto (Government derives its just powers from the consent of the governed.)
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To: muawiyah
"I'll look around for a cheesehead today and if I see one I'll bag and tag him and prepare to ship him back FedEx ~ that way he'll be there by Monday morning."

Since he's a Democrat, he probably won't put up much of a fight either. We all know they're surrender monkeys...
54 posted on 02/18/2011 8:30:31 AM PST by Old Teufel Hunden
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To: Libloather

Maybe the taxpayers in Wisconsin ought to withhold state taxes and put up a list of demands as well. After all, they’re the ones that are paying for all this. Should they not have the final say?


55 posted on 02/18/2011 8:32:33 AM PST by meyer (We will not sit down and shut up.)
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To: Lazamataz

This reminds me of the scene in Blazing Saddles with Cleavon Little:

Memorable quotes for
Blazing Saddles (1974) More at IMDbPro »
[the Johnsons load their guns and point them at Bart. Bart then points his own pistol at his head]
Bart: [low voice] Hold it! Next man makes a move, the nigger gets it!
Olson Johnson: Hold it, men. He’s not bluffing.
Dr. Sam Johnson: Listen to him, men. He’s just crazy enough to do it!
Bart: [low voice] Drop it! Or I swear I’ll blow this nigger’s head all over this town!
Bart: [high-pitched voice] Oh, lo’dy, lo’d, he’s desp’it! Do what he sayyyy, do what he sayyyy!
[Townspeople drop their guns. Bart jams the gun into his neck and drags himself through the crowd towards the station]
Harriet Johnson: Isn’t anybody going to help that poor man?
Dr. Sam Johnson: Hush, Harriet! That’s a sure way to get him killed!
Bart: [high-pitched voice] Oooh! He’p me, he’p me! Somebody he’p me! He’p me! He’p me! He’p me!
Bart: [low voice] Shut up!
[Bart places his hand over his own mouth, then drags himself through the door into his office]
Bart: Ooh, baby, you are so talented!
[looks into the camera]
Bart: And they are so *dumb*!


56 posted on 02/18/2011 8:34:31 AM PST by RainMan
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To: traditional1

Excellent ! It’s time for playing hardball.


57 posted on 02/18/2011 8:34:44 AM PST by jimt
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To: Libloather

We won.

You lost.

You don’t demand anything.


58 posted on 02/18/2011 8:39:35 AM PST by Arrowhead1952 (America has two cancers - democrats and RINOS.)
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To: meyer
Maybe the taxpayers in Wisconsin ought to withhold state taxes and put up a list of demands as well. After all, they’re the ones that are paying for all this.

Withholding income taxes puts them in legal jeopardy, BUT, they can stop consuming and building until something is done. No consumer tax would hit the local governments hard, and no building stagnates property taxes. Bartering or trading leaves them out altogether.

Starve the Beast.

59 posted on 02/18/2011 8:41:03 AM PST by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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To: muawiyah

I’ll look around for a cheesehead today and if I see one I’ll bag and tag him and prepare to ship him back FedEx ~ that way he’ll be there by Monday morning
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Well, my rates are quite higher than FEDEX or UPS but prepare him and I will give you Overnight/Guaranteed Delivery in an unmarked vehicle.
I do demand you sedate him/her though as I don’t believe I will be able to withstand hearing him/her cry and blubber etc for the entire trip.
Will try to re-indoctrinate him/her though with plenty of good ole’ Conservative talk radio.


60 posted on 02/18/2011 8:41:57 AM PST by xrmusn ((6/98))
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