Chicago, IL – Democrats who fled Wisconsin to block a vote on a sweeping anti-union bill could stay in hiding for days or even weeks.
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Democratic state Sen. Jon Erpenbach (URP’-ehn-bahk) spoke to The Associated Press at a Chicago hotel on Friday. He and fellow Democratic senators left Wisconsin on Thursday to delay the near-certain passage of a bill backed by Republicans and GOP Gov. Scott Walker.
Thousands of protesters have also flocked to the Capitol in Madison, Wis., to demonstrate against the bill.
Erpenbach says there’s no fixed date for Democrats to return to Wisconsin. He say all 14 Senate Democrats will meet somewhere in Illinois on Friday. He would not say where or exactly when.
easy–withhold their pay, perks, until they come back, including that of their secretaries and staff.
if you don’t show up at work, you don’t get paid.
Kol hakovod to these brave and principled legislators for holding out for a more reasoned approach to budgetary decisions. Yes, cuts are needed but not using a hatchet that cuts into the support network of the most needy and abrogates committments to the state’s workers.
Mr. Anonymous, the product of the current budget is lotsa school closures in Wisconsin, since alotta teachers called in ‘sick’, if they weren’t unionised or the unions would be a little stricter, those teachers wouldn’t be able to do that. Straightening out the unions, is probably the best way Wisconsin (and a couple of other states) will start closing the budget holes…