"Senate passes resolution to fine missing senators w/o any debate or comment #wiunion Fine $100/day

[BillyJack]

http://yfrog.com/h5w7egwj

Just saw this on Twitter (but I'm not a savvy twitter user).

Does anyone know if this is true?

[drm604]

1. Can they pass something like that without a quorum?

:shrug:

[Gothmog]

11. They tried this in Texas during the redistrcting mess

Part of the deal of the legislators coming back was the dropping of these fines

The repugs are getting around to copying Tom DeLay's playbook for the Texas redistricting mess

[tabatha]

2. It says underneath "to take up"

which implies not passed.

[highplainsdem]

3. It's apparently true. I'm seeing lots of tweets about it.

http://www.thedailypage.com/walker/

Lots of Twitter comments in the live feed there. WEAC (Wisconsin Education Association Council) tweeted about that link:

WEAC WEAC
Great live coverage from @IsthmusTDP http://www.thedailypage.com/walker/ #wiunion
18 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

[BillyJack]

5. Thanks for the link. n/t

[blogslut]

4. Plus the Fab 14 will have to reimburse for search costs

http://www.wdio.com/article/stories/S1998167.shtml?cat=10349

MADISON, Wis. (AP) - The 14 Wisconsin state Senate Democrats who left the state two weeks ago will now face fines of $100 for each day they stay away.

Republicans remaining in the Senate approved the daily fine on Wednesday with none of the Democrats present.

The Democrats left Wisconsin in order to delay indefinitely a Republican-backed bill taking away collective bargaining rights from public employees.

The resolution passed on Wednesday also requires the missing Democrats to reimburse the Senate for any costs incurred during attempts to force them to return. Their salary and other per diem payments can be withheld until they pay back the penalties and costs.

Republicans have already withheld the checks of missing Democrats from direct deposit and denied access to copying machines for their staff.

[davsand]

8. Search costs? Seems to me the Governor oughtta be liable since HE called in the police.

There is already some discussion that the Governor was misusing police when he was sending them out after the Dems. Wouldn't HE be the one who should be forced to pay for that?


:wtf:




Laura

[keopeli]

6. Petty bastards, those Repubics. n/t

[UnDued11]

7. They play for keeps.. I am not surprised.

It's in their DNA. :grr:

[Blue Meany]

10. Yup, the believe in using power when they have it, doing anything

necessary to get it, and whining about compromise when they don't have it. Remember how the GOP changed the names of Democratic-sponsored bills to things like "pedophilia enablement Act" and made them hold hearing in little basement rooms? For them, politics is war by other menas.

[bemildred]

9. Resolutions don't mean shit. nt

[Skip_In_Boulder]

12. Just heard on Ed Schultz Show

He was talking with on of the Wis. Senators. Did not catch her name.