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What Do You Do When the Government Revolts?
Canada Free Press ^ | 2-25-11 | Michael R. Shannon

Posted on 02/25/2011 8:39:28 PM PST by bigbob

Fresh off his success destabilizing the government in Egypt, President Obama is now taking aim at domestic tyrants — beginning with Republican Gov. Scott Walker in Wisconsin.

This time, rather than help the Muslim Brotherhood assume power for the first time, Obama is desperately trying to keep public employee unions —call it the Collective Brotherhood — in power.

Why? Unions spent $400 million dollars electing Obama in 2008, and although Barack does not appear to comprehend the damage crippling deficits do to the nation, he’s well aware of what a $400 million dollar hole will do to his re–election budget.

For his part, Gov. Walker is not exactly holed up in an undisclosed location with a junta of military cronies attempting to cut the power to Al–Jazeera. Last November Wisconsin voters elected Walker in a near landslide and threw Democrats out of power in both the state Senate and House.

(Excerpt) Read more at canadafreepress.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; US: Wisconsin
KEYWORDS: article13; revolt; scottwalker; section10; wisconsinshowdown
Wisconsin flipped both houses of the state legislature from D to R, elected a conservative Republican Governor, and kicked Rusty Feingold out of office, not to mention the hundreds of local elections that shifted to the right. Can you say "Mandate"?

Yet the FLEE PARTY Dems in the Senate are on the lam. Solution? The Wisconsin Senate should invoke Article 13, Section 10 of the state Constitution that says the legislature may declare a seat vacant. This vote only requires a majority of the Senate for a quorum, which the 19 GOP members more than satisfy.

Nuclear option? Maybe, but when you have this kind of mandate and the other side is simply grandstanding for the media when they know they are going to lose the vote eventually, isn't it time for some hardball?

1 posted on 02/25/2011 8:39:32 PM PST by bigbob
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To: bigbob
"Vacancies in office. SECTION 10. [As amended April 1979] (1) The legislature may declare the cases in which any office shall be deemed vacant, and also the manner of filling the vacancy, where no provision is made for that purpose in this con- stitution."

The rest of the Wisconsin constitution uses the term "elected officer" when it also means members of the legislature. This refers to "office", not "elected officer" so you'll need something more than your interpretation to tell us if this applies to the legislature ~ which it may well not.

Got a court decision or a prior legislative action?

Or, maybe you can look and see if the Constitution already carries some other relevant section about filling vacant seats.

2 posted on 02/25/2011 8:50:54 PM PST by muawiyah
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To: muawiyah

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3 posted on 02/25/2011 8:56:50 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (All gave some, some gave all.)
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To: bigbob

When the government is revolting, return the favor???


4 posted on 02/25/2011 9:01:05 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Hawk)
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To: muawiyah

You may be right about the legal definition, but I’m sure they won’t do it anyhow. BUT, the mere threat of invoking this action may serve to bring the fleebaggers in. According to media people who are talking with them, they had no endgame in mind when they took off, it was just “Road trip!”, thinking somehow their stunt would turn the political tide in their direction. Now I suspect their resolve is beginning to weaken and maybe they’ll start looking for an excuse to come back (e.g. “We had to keep the mean Republicans from declaring our seats vacant and replacing us”.


5 posted on 02/25/2011 9:21:33 PM PST by bigbob
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The state of Wisconsin doesn’t deduct Netflix fees or health club dues from paychecks, why should it be mandatory that it deduct union dues from every employee paycheck?

These public unions have the kind power of the IRS, the Social Security system and the courts, not to mention the short lived new kid on the block, the unconstitutional Obamacare. An employee should be a customer of the union, not a subject of the union.

6 posted on 02/25/2011 9:21:33 PM PST by oyez (The difference in genius and stupidity is that genius has limits.)
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To: bigbob

Thank you CFP. what a great source.


7 posted on 02/25/2011 9:35:29 PM PST by cd jones
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To: bigbob

Cut off their state issued credit cards, repossess their state issued vehicles for starters. Dock their pay for every single day they miss work. (What they do is work, isn’t it???) Cancel their ability to declare they live in Wisconsin and are no longer elible as a citizen to occupy office.


8 posted on 02/26/2011 12:06:54 AM PST by Semperfiwife ( Obama Parties While The Middle East Burns - Play It Again, John Legend)
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Apparently Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana and Iowa have some interesting state reciprocity laws and have actually aligned their state residency standards so there's no dispute about which state gets what part of your income.

Reading through the state tax sites it looks like you need a full 1-year period to become a resident for tax purposes if moving from one of those states to another. You may also owe taxes as a part-year resident if you MOVED from one to the other permanently.

Presuming the Democrats didn't intend to become permanent residents of Illinois, it's going to be doggone difficult to tag them with Illinois residency. On the other hand, they all have OTHER INCOME. Could be they earned some of it doing work in a different state. Since they have temporarily relocated to Illinois it is possible they owe taxes on income earned in Illinois at some time in the prior year.

Some Illinois resident might well COMPLAIN ~ so hop to it!

9 posted on 02/26/2011 5:21:53 AM PST by muawiyah
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To: HiTech RedNeck
When the government is revolting, return the favor???

Correct.

Might I add, "aim small, miss small".

10 posted on 02/26/2011 5:40:46 AM PST by meyer (We will not sit down and shut up.)
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To: bigbob

I have found the government revolting for some time... especially during the last two years under Dumba$$.


11 posted on 02/26/2011 5:55:15 AM PST by Common Sense 101
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I don’t know how long until the fleebaggers get counted as residents rather than “visitors.”


12 posted on 02/26/2011 4:26:07 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Hawk)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
MINIMUM of one year ~ Illinois law.

The whole point of the law is to limit the number of leaches who move there to suck off their supplemental welfare systems and in-state tuition.

BTW, LOSING your residency is a different issue than ACQUIRING your residency. Once you have it, you have it ~ because then the taxman wants a piece.

13 posted on 02/26/2011 4:36:50 PM PST by muawiyah
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