Let's put a face on this Coward Miller.
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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You know, if they’re actually using a state credit card, all the governor has to do is report it stolen. Then they will not only have to pay their travel expenses out of their own funds, but they will possibly be arrested for grand theft.
Declare the seats abandoned, let the governor appoint replacements, and recognize the new quorum. Problem solved.
Yeah, you're probably right. If Wisconsin's income tax is handled like the federal income tax, perhaps taxpayers can change their withholding (state W-4) so that less is removed from their pay each week. That way, they could at least reduce the amount of money that the state is getting from them. Of course, they would understand that they are likely to have to make up the difference at the end of the tax year if their withholding is inadequate.
Should screw him up good whether it converts him or not.
French - cheese-eating surrender monkeys
Wisconsin democrats - cheese headed surrender monkeys.
The fact that the provision is part of the "budget repair bill" is what makes it necessary to have a Dem present (tax and appropriations bills need 3/5 quorum, and the Repubs are one short of a 3/5 majority).
OK, take the provision out and pass it by itself in its own non-appropriations bill, which will just need a simple majority quorum.
Unless the Repubs do this, consider them to just be engaging in posturing, and not really serious.
Miller should threaten to resign if his demands aren’t met :)
Egads, we’re finally at the precipice of a big deal here and you’re ready to surrender?!
I have faith that Walker will hold. He and the republicans won a clear mandate. Given the drama here they’re “all in” — there’s really no option for them to back down and keep their jobs or conscience.
They have day jobs. Plus letting the union mobs run riot by themselves makes the Left look bad to the moderates onthe fence.
Now that they’re holed up in their secure locations, I guess their next step is to start kidnapping people and threatening to behead them if the demands are not met.
My understanding is that the governor is simply asking for the union members to begin paying for HALF OF THEIR BENEFITS????
Public sector unions should be illegal. How dare they demand the citizens of Wisconsin to continue to pay for ALL OF THEIR BENEFITS!”””
Walker is asking for employees to pay for 12.5% of their health care premiums—when the state average is 25% & the NATIONAL average is 20%+.
He is also asking them to pay 50% of their pension input. As I understand it right now- they pay absolutely NOTHING for their pensions.
Find me a private sector company which pays ALL of your pension funds.
The fugitive leader said they were not all in the same place so cut their communications.
Cut off their e-mail accounts if paid for by the State.
Surround the places they are staying and deny any food or water from reaching them.”””
IF ANY of these delinquent Democrats try to bill the state for one single penny of their ‘travel expenses’ for this debacle, I would ask the state Attorney General to bring them up on fraud charges.
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. “””
Sounds good to me. April 15 isn’t that far away.
How about holding State income taxes that are withheld in payroll checks in an escrow account & not forwarding to the state treasury? Dry up their resources.
You know, if they’re actually using a state credit card, all the governor has to do is report it stolen. Then they will not only have to pay their travel expenses out of their own funds, but they will possibly be arrested for grand theft.”””
PERFECT!!!!
Is he trying to amed the bill? Was his "demand" seconded? What procedure is he following that gives him the floor to offer these demands? < /sarc>
Or is following some other form of government?
-PJ
Since they’re elected I doubt they can be “fired” per se. However, if I were in their district I would start a recall petition immediately for failure to perform the duties of the office.
Let's put a face on this Coward Miller.
“Surround the places they are staying and deny any food or water from reaching them.”
And play loud rock music day and night like the Army did in Panama when trying to get its thug leader out of the Vatican embassy.
The Democrats pulled the same crap in Texas a few years ago and they pretty much won if I recall. I wonder how things will play out this time.
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