Posted on 03/29/2011 12:58:38 PM PDT by prairiebreeze
As the dust settles in Madison, Wisconsin Republicans face a troubling coda: Gov. Scott Walker’s budget-repair bill is being tripped up in the courts. Union heavies smell blood. And the unruly parade of lefty activists and hulking Teamsters that occupied the state capitol for weeks is back for a bruising final round.
On paper, at issue is whether senate Republicans violated the state’s open-meeting laws. In mid-March, after a three-week stalemate, GOP lawmakers hustled Walker’s bill to the floor. The senate clerk approved the maneuver. But 14 Democratic state senators, on the lam in Illinois, howled in absentia. So did their comrades in Dane County government, who quickly filed suit. A sympathetic county judge put the brakes on implementation.
The Walker administration, appalled, immediately urged a state appeals court to strike down the circuit court’s ruling. But the appellate panel threw up its hands last week and kicked the bill to the state supreme court. Meanwhile, the nonpartisan state legislative bureau, following protocol, published the bill on Friday, sending Democrats into a tizzy.
With fresh legal questions being raised daily, the bill’s status is as murky as a Charlie Sheen tweet. But the tedious tangle over quorum rules and publication guidelines is merely a proxy for enraged progressives. The governor has beaten them at the polls and in the legislature. To topple his signature law, they need a black-robed coup.
Pressure is mounting on the seven-member high court to weigh in. If they do, the bill risks being overturned. For the moment, judicial conservatives hold a 4–3 edge. But that could flip come April 5, when incumbent justice David Prosser, a former GOP legislator, battles JoAnne Kloppenburg, an environmental lawyer and veteran state attorney, for a ten-year term.
The Prosser–Kloppenburg bout has political implications beyond the fate of Walker’s bill.
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The entire piece is worth a read.
is there a law or anything to that effect that would prevent WI Republicans from dropping the whole thing and passing it again?
Absolutely ludicrous example of leftist behavior and thuggery. An activist judge overrules the will of the voter. Standard stuff. Republicans should simply call another vote since Dems have returned. Lock the senate chamber doors if necessary to prevent escape.
Anyone that told these democrats that life was "fair" ... that person(s) lied.
I heard Laura Ingrahm badgering (a little play on WI’s mascot) one of the greatest Governors WI has ever had. She was tellin him he was headed toward a PR disaster with polling turning sharply against him. He was pleading for people to go to a website to get his take on the situation and how it will help WI no end. I didn’t get, or I don’t recall the URL, unfortunately...
You’re absolutely right — that the government should not be run for the exclusive benefit of government workers — but that’s what happens when they get taken over by the unions, for permanent, guaranteed lifetime jobs, no less.
Government work should be rotated among the entire citizenry — rather than allowing them to become the permanent, personal entitlements of a few — for life.
That is the inherent problem — for which this whole country was founded upon — this notion of lifetime entitlement to govern everybody else exclusively for their own benefit.
That is the essential problem of government anywhere, anytime — that a few, will determine that everybody else exists only for their exclusive benefit, and that there shouldn’t even exist any other organizations and entities to oppose them — as the divine right to determine the “political correctness” for everybody else. That’s just the way it is because they’ve said so, and they should be the only one allowed to raise funds for political campaigns and buy up all the media.
It’s insidious at first, then finally becomes more apparent at times like these, that their demands take precedence over the general well-being and welfare of the society at large — even demanding that their “market returns” should be guaranteed without risks, because everybody else only exists to serve them.
And if everybody else was as smart as them, they’d all do the same.- — as though that was an enlightened, progressive and intelligent society and way to do government. That is its long history of failures.
What’s even dumber is the notion that a Secretary of State can perform his own version of a “pocket veto” and prevent laws from passing that he doesn’t like.
I can guarantee that THAT will not hold up in court. I don’t care how far Left their judges are.
I don’t know about anyone else here, but I’m fed up with union thuggery and despicable tactics. I think it’s time that mainstream Americans stand up against unions....all unions...and ban them from America. They have for too long been a stronghold and money-laundering scheme for the leftist Democrat Party and the socialists that support them.
Possibly this? http://www.wisgov.state.wi.us/
Well, Greta asked that of the republican Lt Governor (I believe that’s who it was). He basically said that another vote couldn’t guarantee that the support that was initially there to pass the bill could be counted on again.
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The article asserts that WI republicans are sitting on their wallets. That tells me quite a lot.
I predict that if the Unions win there will be a civil war in WI. When the law making body is overturned illegally by a corrupt political judge then there is nothing left to do but to take the Union out the hard way.
And I can attest that this "secretary of state" personally told a friend of mine to "move your flag (American) back into the woods where no-one can see it" on his summer cottage in door County. There is no ordinance about flags, but most of the street in this posh vacation community is occupied by retired teachers from Illinois.
They may beat Walker but in doing so they seal their own fate and that of the entire state, eventually.
What I cannot believe is that there is a majority outside of the public unions supporting them.
We’re playing a game with a bunch of people who aren’t playing by the rules.
Judge Sumi’s son works for the Unions.
Anarchy rules. Laws have no meaning. Elections mean nothing
We have descended into hell.
Unless we revolt with guns, knives and grenades and reestablish civil law and enforce respect for those laws we will descend into a primitive culture worse than the middle ages.
Good luck people. I am but one person, while there are others like me that want to take action we are few and far between and would not have much more than a small headline in the newspaper if we took action.
Therefor you are on your own.
Good luck with your hopes that the future can be changed when you already know that the big money and the powerful organizations wish to separate us into a two class society.
Those that have power and those that work for those that have power.
Yeah. It tells me that WI democrats want the money. All of it. Problem is, America really is broke, despite what idiots like Michael Moore bleat to the contrary.
All we need is organization. And since it may come to that....we better get started. Look at it this way. If the moronic unions can do it, and if the dim bulb radical Islamists can do it....we’re damned sure capable of organizing to save America. And there’s always the Tea Party as a conduit.
Oh but wait. Wouldn’t Suni then have to recuse herself? Oh no. That’s only if it’s a conservative judge in question.
What was I thinking?
Down with unions...NOW.
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