Ground Shift: Are Wisconsin Republicans Now Getting Worn Down?

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Ground Shift: Are Wis. Republicans Now Getting Worn Down?
Eric Kleefeld | March 8, 2011 | http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/03/ground-shift-are-wis-republicans-now-getting-worn-down.php


The narrative in the Wisconsin political standoff over Gov. Scott Walker's budget proposal and its anti-public employee union provisions seems to have shifted very quickly. Just two days ago, the media was abuzz with talk that the state Senate Democrats who had fled the state in order to block budget quorum might come back -- and now, the chatter is about how some key Republican legislators could derail the bill.

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is it in fact Republicans who might be getting worn down? It appears that more Republican state Senators have been becoming critical of the package. This, too, could very well sputter out -- but Dems only need three defections out of the 19-member GOP caucus to defeat the bill.

State Sen. Dale Schultz has been publicly undecided since a week ago. Late last week, he sounded awfully critical of the bill -- and indeed, tired of the whole controversy -- in a radio interview: "All I know is, we're not talking. We're wasting valuable time about collective bargaining, which I don't ever remember being a part of the last election whatsoever. But most of all, you know, to me, this just looks like the classic overreach we see every two years."

And on Monday, state Sen. Robert Cowles told .................

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