[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

“They have been working via the phone and offering amendments via the phone. “

If this is the case, it would appear that a quorum is “electronically” present. Hold the vote.

[livius]

It seems to me that unless there is something in the statute that says that they must be physically present in that particular place to vote, they could be considered “attending” electronically. But maybe not; I don’t know.

Still, it’s odd that they can do all these other things by phone.

[Cheerio]

“They have been working via the phone and offering amendments via the phone. “ If this is the case, it would appear that a quorum is “electronically” present. Hold the vote.


It was reported last week they were voting via phone. How can they argue there is no quorum? Must be a legal technicality because it sure doesn't pass the common sense test.

[for-q-clinton]

I wonder what the WI senate rule is for declaring a quorum? Could they change it to say elecontronic contact can be considered as available...as long as they have the means to vote it’s good to go.

If so just change the rule and then vote already. I think Walker wants to drag this out to keep the public against the unions and make it easier for him to get what he wants. Which I’m good with that, but it does appear as if there are several work-arounds to this problem (like just vote on the non budget union stuff today). Maybe he really doesn’t want to restructure the debt and just push the problem to a future generation and would rather deal with it by cutting today’s spending. This way he can blame the unions and the rats (and right-fully so).