Democrats flee state to avoid vote on budget bill

[Swede]

Madison — Amid the third straight day of chaotic but largely peaceful protests at the Capitol, Democratic senators Thursday boycotted a Senate vote on Gov. Scott Walker's budget-repair plan, forcing Republicans to put off further action in that house until Friday at the earliest.

With Democrats hiding out just over the Illinois border and drawing national media attention, Republicans had too few lawmakers to take a vote Thursday and had to adjourn. With thousands of demonstrators swarming the Capitol Square, GOP lawmakers vowed to come back Friday morning to try to take up the proposal, which would help solve a state budget shortfall by cutting public employee benefits and would also take away most public union bargaining rights.

http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/116381289.html

[eleny]

1. Senator Fred A. Risser was interviewed on tv last night and impressed me so much

He's the Dem senator that has served in a state house the longest in the U.S. He spoke about how Wisconsin was the first state to adopt Social Security.

The people of Wisconsin must be so proud that he's one of their legislators.

[BlueIris]

3. I once asked Fred Risser to marry me.

On the Internets. Because he proposed a bill to allow Wisconsin mothers to nurse their babies in public without interference, and a $200 fine for those who tried to stop them.

[Drale]

2. They should just get a hotel in Chicago

for a while because they are just gonna waist more gas going back and forth everyday.

[jwirr]

4. They are not coming back until there is some action on this bill. I

suspect if they set foot in WI the game would be over.