UPDATE: Joint Finance Committee passes budget repair bill (Wisconsin)

[PeaceNikki]

Source: WKOW

MADISON (WKOW) -- Governor Walker's highly-controversial budget repair bill is on its way to the Senate.

The Joint Finance Committee approved the bill 12-4 along party lines.

Republicans made some changes, but nothing that would keep collective bargaining rights for public workers intact.

Thousands of protesters packed the Capitol Rotunda to watch the hearing on television monitors, booing and screaming when supporters of the measure talked. Protesters packed the Capitol all day Tuesday during a 17-hour hearing, overnight and again all day Wednesday.

The Senate will take up the bill Thursday.



Read more: http://www.wkow.com/Global/story.asp?S=14043927

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Oh jeeez

[AsahinaKimi]

1. A storm is coming to Wisconsin

One that Scott Walker will not like... and no umbrella will save him from it.

[PeaceNikki]

2. Madison schools are closed again; unions are urging Milwaukee folk to go today

while the district has warned them not to be absent. As they say, "Oh, it's ON!"

[CLANG]

6. Yup. It's called a successful recall. He is toast!

[fasttense]

3. The sad part is that all those crazy stupid RepubliCON governors

are doing the same thing in their states throughout the US.

Hardly anyone is protesting the anti-union laws being implemented through out the rest of the US. It's as if these RepubliCONS had it planned all along.

[PeaceNikki]

4. Keep an eye on us. Today is going to be BIG. School districts all over keep closing this AM.

[CLANG]

5. I can't make it a noon, but as soon as I get off work I'm going there.

Should be there by 4/4:30 and will take pictures to post here.

Maybe a (non-violent) riot will break out!!

Are you going to be able to make it Nikki?

[PeaceNikki]

8. I wish I could!

Tomorrow is a realistic possibility; today not so much.

[CLANG]

7. Awesome sig line! Mind if I borrow it?

[PeaceNikki]

10. Thanks! Not a bit! I should source that quote. I got it from the great John Fugelsang.

[cyclezealot]

9. ? They did.

[border_town]

11. I hope the people of Wisconsin has learned a lesson

You cannot trust republicans to do the right thing. The will screw you over every chance they get,

[CLANG]

12. I hope the people of Wisconsin has learned a lesson

I wish people would qualify a statement like this. The people that hopefully learned a lesson are the morons that voted for Walker. Liberals DID NOT vote for this guy. As usual it is the brainwashed uneducated and uninformed masses that voted for this asshole.

It's like when Boehner says "the American people voted for....". NO THEY FUCKING DIDN'T!

[davsand]

13. Isn't Wisconsin kind of like Illinois with islands of sanity in a conservative state?

I have always kind of viewed Wisconsin as being kinda like Illinois (where I live) that you have islands of progressives in an otherwise rural/conservative state. It is the "swing" voting that allows the extremes to slip in sometimes. I think there was a lot of "swing" voting that happened all over the US in this last election cycle, and I think that opened the door to what we are seeing right now.

Labor union membership is not nearly as strong of an influence for Dems as it used to be. That vote is never guaranteed, and the DNC (as a whole) has got to realize that if we want to maintain any significant hold on that Labor vote. People will ALWAYS vote to reflect what they feel is of interest to them, and I feel the growth of the tea party is a direct reflection of a failure on the part of the DNC (and ultimately Obama) in delivering a message the resonates with voters.



Laura

[CLANG]

14. Wisconsin (someone can correct me if I'm off base)

Has one county - Dane, which Madison is located in that is very progressive on average.
Waukesha County is mostly ultra-conservative.
The rest of the state is generally conservative, with the exception of Milwaukee county, which is more liberal.


We used to be a blue state for many years. Now it's finally dawning on me that I

LIVE IN A FREAKING RED STATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:puke: :mad: :wtf:

[davsand]

16. I'd always assumed Milwaukee and Green Bay were fairly decent Dem turf.

It is kinda disappointing to hear that. If it wasn't for the god-awful winters up there I'd always thought I'd love to live up there in "Packerland."

:evilgrin:

Peace to you, and I wish you all good luck in any recall efforts. Dunno if we FIB's would be welcome, but I'll be glad to come up and carry petitions when you get to that point!



Laura

[CLANG]

18. Hell we need everone we can get! It will be happening all over if we don't stop it here.

And even though up nort is pretty red, you can have a great time in Green Bay. People only talk Packers, beer, brats and cheese in Green Bay for the most part, so you should be fine as long as you don't bring up politics.

[quakerboy]

17. Its not quite as bad as that.

You seem to have a few strong democratic counties. Milwaukie seems to be the big one, with Dane and a few surroundings, and a couple up on the north tip of the state.

If you look at the histories, something very strange happened this last election. Compare it to the previous years results, and its astounding. enough to make me wonder, particularly when looking at Feingold's results, what the hell happened.


http://www.politico.com/2010/maps/#/Governor/2010/WI

[quakerboy]

15. I think that goes for almost every state.

Population centers seem to head more to the blue, rural areas tend to head to the red. Even democratic strongholds like NY and CA look a bit red if you break it out by county.