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Natter 67: Overriding Vetoes  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, nail polish, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Kathy A - Feb 17, 2011 9:27:24 am PST #23443 of 30001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

Woohoo, state Senators from Wisconsin!!

All 14 Democrats in the state Senate have left the Capitol building, thereby denying a quorum and preventing a vote on the Republican plan to cut salaries, health insurance, pensions and bargaining rights for state employees...

Update--Senate Democrats leave the state: State police are searching for the Democratic Senators, but local news says the Dems left the state. As such, Wisconsin state police no longer have jurisdiction. A standoff has begun.


Burrell - Feb 17, 2011 9:41:23 am PST #23444 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

I babysat the neighbor down the street starting when I was 10, but oh the irony for I wouldn't hire a 10 year old to babysit my kids. But if I had a 14 year old I'd let him/her watch a 3 year old sibling.

Also crazy news day in Wisconsin. I fear tho' it cannot last.


DavidS - Feb 17, 2011 10:01:01 am PST #23445 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Go State Senate Dems of Wisconsin! On the run, baby!


erikaj - Feb 17, 2011 10:05:54 am PST #23446 of 30001
Always Anti-fascist!

If they could do that, maybe ours should too.


SailAweigh - Feb 17, 2011 10:10:21 am PST #23447 of 30001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb

I heard rumor a couple of the Republicans have gone on the lam, too. I haven't seen anything like this since the days of the antiwar protests in the early 70s.


Kathy A - Feb 17, 2011 10:11:24 am PST #23448 of 30001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

I just got this Tweet emailed to me by one of my coworkers, who covers a Marquette labor law prof for one of our products:

Senate chamber doors are barricaded. GOP wants to get lunch, but the police refuse to escort them.


meara - Feb 17, 2011 10:11:59 am PST #23449 of 30001

Didn't the Texan dems have to do that a few years ago too? Also, how can they send police after them--what law are they breaking??


Cashmere - Feb 17, 2011 10:13:02 am PST #23450 of 30001
Now tagless for your comfort.

The Dems did it in Texas--back when Delay was redistricting, I believe back in 2003.

OH NOES! The GOP will have to order in. Fuckers.


Kathy A - Feb 17, 2011 10:13:29 am PST #23451 of 30001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

Yeah, the Texas Dems escaped to Oklahoma, I believe.

State law says that legislators can be compelled to report to the Capitol, and that state police can be used to bring them in. The same thing applied in Texas.


Cashmere - Feb 17, 2011 10:14:58 am PST #23452 of 30001
Now tagless for your comfort.

They're probably hiding out in the UP.