His crime: absence from a quorum call. His punishment: being dragged onto the floor of the Senate by police officers to be recorded as present.
While he did not enter a charge of police brutality, a recent bone injury on Senator Packwood's ring finger was aggravated in the encounter.
Only 13 more to go! Scofflaws
Hi-lar-ious.
I’m sure that he wasn’t literally “dragged”. If they had to use assertive measures to get him to comply, then he should be charged with something.
His ring finger was aggravated? It’s not just my ring finger that is aggravated by his actions. Hey, Packwood! This finger is for you. Put on the big boy pants and start acting like a senator. Get your butt down there and serve the citizens as you swore to do!
This was the US Senate too! And Packwood was a Republican who was carried into the chamber so as to make a quorum for a vote on campaign finance reform...
http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/Compulsory_Attendance.htm
One of the good things you can say about Packwood was that he was key in killing Bill Clintons Health Care plans.
The NYT is scraping the bottom of the barrel to take the heat off the WI MIA legislators.
You might have noted that this is an article from 1988.
Any special reason you’re posting it today?
so the US Senate with a Democrat majority felt compelled to arrest and drag in against his will a fellow US Senator back in 1988 but it will somehow be vile, inhuman, undemocratic, etc, ad nauseum for the Wisconsin Senate to do the same with Senators purposely absent from a quorum call?
You can’t capture what’s not there in the first place.
Convictions? Bob... You have none.
rules is rules
Nice find, factmart. Thanks!