Posted on 02/22/2011 5:33:12 PM PST by FTJM
Wisconsin Democrats may have left town to prevent Gov. Scott Walker and the Republican majority from having a quorum but they've still been able to cast votes in the legislature this week.
Wait, what?
According to the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, state lawmakers have “routinely” been allowed to cast votes by fax or phone in recent years rather than actually appear in the statehouse. Apparently it is a courtesy extended by the majority. A few Democrats were even able to do it Tuesday. But some Republicans are beginning to rethink that practice.
To get the Democrats to return the Republicans moved this afternoon to stop direct deposit of the truant lawmakers’ paychecks, according to Associated Press. Instead they’ll have to pick up their checks on the state senate floor while the legislature is in session.
Also today, the Republicans moved forward with a voter ID bill that Democrats oppose, according to the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel. Republicans believe they can strip the bill of the quorum-requiring financial provisions and get it through while the Democrats are out of town.
As always with these things, it is the little details that highlight the absurdity of the situation. The AP story on the direct deposit vote reported: “Tuesday’s vote was along party lines. The three Republicans on the Committee on Senate Organization voted for it and the two absent Democrats cast their no votes by fax.”
This raises the question: How can they be allowed to do that yet the legislature as a whole can still be said to not have a quorum? Some Republicans are apparently beginning to wonder this themselves.
Regarding the voter ID bill, GOP Sen. Mary Lazich, chairwoman of the committee handling the bill, refused to let missing Democratic Sen. Jon Erpenbach literally phone in his vote.
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Cut the SOBs off at the knees.
They’ve had too many privileges too long.
RATS on the run.
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They are now a tax burden to the people in WI. They are in another state deliberately doing the business of the state. And how stupid can you be?
If I offend anyone, then.... mission accomplished: “The Democrat Party is an EVIL Party”! - They should be DESTROYED politically!!!!!
If I offend anyone, then.... mission accomplished: “The Democrat Party is an EVIL Party”! - They should be DESTROYED politically!!!!!
Go to the fax machine and unplug it, put in a normal POTS phone and forward the number to 608-255-5172. That’s the WI Democrat Party Chair office. :-)
Everytime we’re about to win something we screw ourselves. I’m so sick of the limp wristed, namby pamby, RINOs & nice guys that don’t understand we are in a WAR for LIBERTY against Marxists, Communists and thier useful idiots. Wake the F*** UP, grow a pair of testicles and stand for Freedom or get the hell out of the way and let someone occupy your seat who will! Wankers.
Would the Rats pass legislation if we were out of town?
Think lame duck obamacare.
So let's do it and also pass concealed carry!
There is little doubt that the Republic is on life support, I tremble that God is just.
Since this goes on constantly, it would appear it's almost contrived.
“There is little doubt that the Republic is on life support”
You’re wrong. More than 700 patriots were elected to state legislatures, and 10,000 brushfires have been set in the states that the fascists in Washington can’t extinguish.
OK — the remote vote was extended as a courtesy?
Let me see... I think courtesy has vanished as of now. So should the remote vote.
I am absolutely sizzling over the image of that thuggish, boorish rabble occupying the hallowed halls of governance in Madistan. No mercy, no prisoners. Scorched earth!
Exactly. Turn off the damned fax machine. Or at least have an intern trip and accidently unplug the fac cord.
This is what I call a true WTF moment.
If I would have been one of the Pubbie Senators in that meeting and a demand was made to “honor” the fact that the former Dem majority allowed their own members to vote via phone or fax, I would reply, “At least, presumably, they were allowed that “telecommute privilege” because they were within state lines.”
I would follow with, “If we are currently unable to create a quorum for budgetary matters due to your absence then how, in God’s name, can you claim an ability to vote in abstensia ACROSS STATE LINES IN VIOLATION OF YOUR OATH OF OFFICE!”
The insulting of intelligence is mind boggling.
They should all be present and as soon as a dem calls to vote, declare a quorum and move to vote on the budget bill.
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