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jodymarie aimee

(3,975 posts) Thu Jun 28, 2018, 05:30 AM Jun 2018

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You know in Wisconsin our Senators left the state to deny them a quorum....

for voting on Act 10...Walker sent the gendarmes after them...but in the end, the Rs found a sneaky way to vote without them, and pushed it thru.

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You know in Wisconsin our Senators left the state to deny them a quorum.... (Original Post) jodymarie aimee Jun 2018 OP

Harder to leave the country FBaggins Jun 2018 #1

Texas state dems left and the gov sent the TX Rangers to OK to retrieve them elehhhhna Jun 2018 #2

Sure, and that takes time and gums up the works. lagomorph777 Jun 2018 #3

FBaggins

(26,721 posts)

1. Harder to leave the country

Reply to jodymarie aimee (Original post)

Thu Jun 28, 2018, 07:39 AM

Jun 2018

Especially for those who need to campaign in red states for the Fall.

And who suggests the absence of a quorum?

elehhhhna

(32,076 posts)

2. Texas state dems left and the gov sent the TX Rangers to OK to retrieve them

Reply to jodymarie aimee (Original post)

Thu Jun 28, 2018, 09:21 AM

Jun 2018

lagomorph777

(30,613 posts)

3. Sure, and that takes time and gums up the works.

Reply to elehhhhna (Reply #2)

Thu Jun 28, 2018, 09:23 AM

Jun 2018

Then we move to the next tactic.

There's no one silver bullet; our side has to be ready to spray a hail of metaphorical bullets.

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