This is rich. In order to resolve the budget “impasse” that they created by fleeing the state, the fourteen Democrats elected to represent various jurisdictions in the Wisconsin state Senate have invited the Republican governor to meet with them near the border of a neighboring state. That good man wisely dismissed the letter in which they suggested the meeting:
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker on Monday dismissed as “ridiculous” a letter from a Democratic state Senate leader who suggested a meeting “near the Wisconsin-Illinois border” to discuss the state’s budget impasse.
Sen. Mark Miller sent the letter to Walker on Monday, offering a border summit as a way to resume stalled negotiations on the state’s budget.
Border summit? Huh? Are they attempting to resolve tense relations between the Badger State and the Land of Lincoln? Will they need intermediaries from a neutral state?
Shouldn’t they return to Wisconsin if they wish to resolve Wisconsin‘s budget impasse? Maybe the governor might meet with them if they returned to the state they were elected to serve.
In what Moe Lane calls, “one of the better official political letters“, Wisconsin Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald reminds his Minority counterpart how representative democracies work:
As you know, your opportunity to compromise and amend the bill was on the floor of the state Senate. As you know, you forfeited that right and opportunity when you decided to flee the state instead of doing your job.
Just love the way the Republican who has remained in his jurisdiction doing his job addresses the letter to the flighty Democrat: “Sen. Mark Miller/Parts Unknown, IL.”
My state senator is Fred Risser, and that man is 83 years old. It bothers me to think of such an old man held hostage to politics in some motel in Illinois. Another of the 14 is Julie Lassa, who’s 6 months pregnant and has 2 little kids back in Wisconsin. There must be a hard core within the 14 who are keeping the rest in line. What are they saying to Julie and Fred? Assuming they’re not the hard core. Imagine being 6 months pregnant and not having your husband to comfort you, to know he’s at home taking care of the children you miss? And what is it all for? Keeping the winners of the last election from voting! And in the end you’ll have to go back. It’s only a question of when.
– Ann Althouse
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Who’s keeping these folks on the lam and separated from their families and ObGyn?
#1 – “Who’s keeping these folks on the lam and separated from their families and ObGyn?”
Ooh, ooh, I know! Pick me! Pick me! (raising hand violently)
Sorry, couldn’t resist. 😉
Regards,
Peter H.
Senator Scott Fitzgerald put the errant fleebaggers in their place; they have nowhere to run. They must go back to Wisconsin & vote. In other words, they must do their jobs or forfeit them.
I think it’s a false question.
She’s choosing to stay on the lam, choosing to increase her stress (and possible risk to her baby)* by defying the laws of her state. To credit (or blame) someone else is to pass the buck.
*Of course, no one on the left really cares about the baby. Well Levi might if it’s a white baby…
At what point do WI child abandonment laws kick in?
But I don’t understand why the WI legislature doesn’t simply separate out the parts of the bill that don’t require a quorum (the non-financial parts – the parts restoring the unions’ accountability) and pass those first, now.
Political Gamesmanship ILC.
If they pass them seperately, the MSM will scream that they weren’t ‘needed to balance the budget!’ and that they were ‘punishing those unions for exerting their rights’ (included, but not limited to, damage of public property, threats, and violence)
Walker seems to have a spine, and savvy to play the game. Hopefulyl he does, he’ll need both. (And Kaisich needs to take notes)
So, what? They are already. I still don’t understand.
Yes, Horseshack.
#8 – Now that’s funny, I don’t care who you are!
Regards,
Peter H.