"A WI state senator is hiding here" - sign that should be on every lawn in WI

[Bozita]

http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/news/116808168.html

Troopers sent to absent senators' homes
e-mail print By Steve Schultze of the Journal Sentinel
Updated: Feb. 24, 2011 9:21 a.m. |(215) COMMENTS

State troopers were dispatched early this morning to the homes of all 14 Democratic state senators, who fled the Capitol a week ago to stall debate on a bill to restrict public worker bargaining rights.

Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald (R-Juneau) said he took the move because he'd had reports some of the senators were going home nights and driving in the morning to Chicago. The Democrats have said they left Wisconsin to avoid being compelled to return to the Capitol and face a vote on Gov. Scott Walker's budget repair bill.

"Troopers aren't going to arrest anybody," Fitzgerald said. He hopes the Democrats if confronted by a trooper and a Senate page will comply with Senate tradition and rules and return to the Capitol.

As of 9 a.m., though, Andrew Welhouse, a spokesman for Fitzgerald, said that so far no Democratic senators have been found.

It would only take one of the 14 Democrats to give majority Republicans a quorum so the budget bill can be voted on.

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[hobbit709]

1. "He's here, he's there, it's the Scarlet Pumpernickel"

[Jackpine Radical]

2. Jeez, I like that.

[klook]

3. "I am Spartacus!!" (n/t)

[moondust]

4. Oh yeah.

[Bozita]

8. T-shirt idea: "WI state senators are hiding in my home" with this graphic

[moondust]

5. dupe

[avebury]

6. Senate Republicans take up voter ID, can't vote

http://www.wkow.com/Global/story.asp?S=14132380

I guess the will vote on Voter ID to scare the Democrats into coming back tactic isn't going to work. Not when you put a fiscal component into the bill and it now requires 20 votes (1 short due to Democrat exodus).

[uponit7771]

7. Things are gettin real in Wisconsin, I pray Walker doesn't prevail

[sufrommich]

9. I like your idea. nt

[gratuitous]

10. Not a bad idea, except . . .

As sensitive as Walker and his cronies are, it wouldn't surprise me if they arrested folks and cited them for making false statements to a police officer or some other such bullshit charge. If you're okay with that, put up a sign. If that gives you pause, you might weigh the pros and cons of spending an unscheduled weekend in jail.

[Poboy]

11. I'd do it if I were there.

[Bozita]

12. The fight has gone national. Could it be equally effective in MI, OH, UT, CA...?

[white_wolf]

13. Wow some of the comments are so fucking stupid. n/t

[Bozita]

14. Kicking for consideration

[dougyang]

15. We're making WI sound like thugs