I think the Repubs are posturing, and using the Dem absence as an excuse to not actually pass anything which will piss off the unions. The Assembly should be careful to word the bill as a non-appropriations item, and send it to the Senate.
People should put pressure on the Repub senators to declare a quorum for non-fiscal bills and just start passing an agenda rapid-fire. Starting with making Wisc a right-to-work state, and passing Vermont-style no-license CCW.
sounds good to me...this Minnesotan stands with your idea.
LOL. I really like they way you think, PapaBear! Too bad you're not the senate majority leader. It would be fun to watch.
Right! This is a beautiful opportunity. (Conservatives should war-game opportunities like this so we can take full advantage whenever something like this happens. Have bills written and waiting to be submitted for a vote quickly and all that.)
The opportunity is ENORMOUS!!!!! But I’m wagering a house, 2 darling children, an Eldorado, a firearms collection (including a really cool suppressed CZ75B), and a wonderful wife, that NOTHING is accomplished. NOTHING good is done, and NO GOOD BILLS are passed. Hell, I’d have passed 20 in the first day.
My guess is that this is EXACTLY what is happening if the WISGOP refuses to act.
The GOP better F'ing MAKE this happen or there WILL be HELL to pay. Count on it...
Pass a RIGHT-TO-WORK law and the Dems will come back at Warp 9.
Yes, I finally found the rule on this. Wisconsin Joint Rule 11.
Good point about the non-appropriations bills. Start moving other bills that will hit the Dems where they live as long as they’re going to flip off the people of Wisconsin so publicly.
Do you live in Wisconsin? I do. I have met several of the Republican members of the Assembly and Senate. They are mostly good-old-boys, business owners and real family farmers and majority conservative. They do not play those sorts of games, as a rule. They have been under the thumb of the donks for years and even when they got something passed, Diamond Jim vetoed it or played games with various fiscal funds in order to shovel tax money where the donks wanted it to go.
The donks are playing games and our guys are trying to fix the mess the donks created.
We will get Concealed Carry. It has passed before and Doyle vetoed it. I do not think our State Republicans give a flying fig about the unions and would love to pi$$ them off.
If the donks had GOP moles to count on, they wouldn’t have run away and the OFA would not be here stirring things up, nor would JJ.