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  • GOP's defense: Senate rule authored in 1983 by two of 'Wisconsin 14' (Schadenfreude Alert!)

    03/19/2011 10:21:46 AM PDT · by bigbob · 17 replies · 2+ views
    Wisconsin State Journal ^ | 3-18-11 | DEE J. JALL
    Senate Rule 93 says that when the Legislature is in special session, "A notice of a committee meeting is not required other than posting on the legislative bulletin board." That's the rule Republican leaders are citing in their contention that one of the votes leading up to passage of Gov. Scott Walker's controversial anti-union bill was legal. One ironic footnote: The rule was written in 1983 by two of the Democratic senators who left Wisconsin last month to avoid voting on the bill, Sen. Tim Cullen, D-Janesville, and Sen. Fred Risser, D-Madison. The two were among 14 senators who fled...