CNN: Wisconsin legislators aren't the first to walk out, leave town ( A Lincoln did it in Il.)

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.cnn.com/2011/POLITICS/02/18/awol.legislators/index.html?hpt=C1

By Phil Gast, CNN
February 18, 2011 11:12 p.m. EST


While in the Illinois House, Abraham Lincoln jumped out of the building in a futile bid to prevent foes from getting a quorum.


(CNN) -- This week's bitter budget showdown in Wisconsin isn't the first time state legislators have fled a state, left a building or refused to show when votes were called.

The "Killer Ds" and the "Texas 11," for example, skedaddled from Texas in 2003 to prevent consideration of a redistricting bill.

In 1839, a young Abraham Lincoln, serving as a Whig in the Illinois House, jumped out of the building in a futile bid to prevent Democrats from getting a quorum to vote on a banks bill.

Members of the 1891 Florida Senate went to Georgia in a bid to prevent a quorum for the election of a U.S. senator.

And in 1994, Republican members of the California Assembly refused to show up for floor sessions in an effort to prevent Democrats from electing Willie Brown as speaker with less than a majority vote.

FULL story at link.

[Hannah Bell]

1. some of the texas legislators did it over the redistricting thing too, if i recall.

more recently.

[Tx4obama]

3. More recent than 2003? I only found two examples in Texas, both in 2003

The Killer D's - Texas House Democrats who left Texas for Ardmore, Oklahoma during the week of May 12, 2003
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killer_Ds
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2003-05-15-texas-lawmakers_x.htm


The Texas 11 - Texas Senate Democrats who fled Texas for Albuquerque, New Mexico for 46 days in 2003
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Eleven


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quorum

[blogslut]

5. The 2003 Killer D's were the most recent from Texas

However, in 1979, Texas had a group of Democratic state legislators called the "Killer Bees". They holed up in a garage apartment in Austin (or Dallas?) in an attempt to prevent changing the date of our presidential primary.

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,946253,00.html

[Tx4obama]

8. The Texas D's (May 2003). The Texas 11 (July 2003)

The Texas 11 (July 2003)
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DEED9153EF932A3575BC0A9659C8B63

So, The Texas 11 were actually the most recent, they were two months after The Texas D's.

[JDPriestly]

2. I had forgotten these things.

[malaise]

4. K & R

Nice historical facts

[moobu2]

6. Thanks for posting this..nt

[Gregorian]

7. The strange part for me to think of is how he would be opposing his own party now.

It has always been the Twilight Zone in America. But it's just more so now. Any country that had to have a revolution to keep people from being slaves is in deeper trouble than it thinks.