Hey, Who Wants to Talk About Wisconsin’s Economic Miracle?
Over the past six months, Wisconsin has been nothing short of a miracle. Newly elected Governor Scott Walker and the Republicans in the majority in Madison got just about everything they wanted during the past legislative session, and a state facing a projected $3 billion budget shortfall with no end in sight now has a projected $300 million budget surplus. The amazing successes in Wisconsin have emboldened the legislatures and political leaders of other states, who have seen the wonders resulting from a little political backbone and fiscal common sense.
After being held hostage by 14 AWOL Democrat senators, Walker succeeded in passing his budget repair bill, “Act 10,” which instantly fixed the $137 million deficit by requiring public employees to contribute just a little bit toward their pensions and health care, and by limiting their ability to collectively bargain. Wisconsin also ended the ludicrous automatic pay and benefit increases for public employee unions each budget year — closing a cash sinkhole which is eating states like California and Illinois alive. Last month the Wisconsin legislature passed its biennial budget, which Governor Walker promptly signed in a no-frills ceremony.
The repeal of much of Wisconsin’s collective bargaining law has already improved the quality and lowered the cost of Wisconsin government exponentially. There are approximately 275,000 government employees in the state of Wisconsin. About 72,000 such employees work for the state, 38,000 for cities and villages, 48,000 for counties, 10,500 (full time equivalent) for technical colleges, and 105,229 for schools.
While only half of state employees are unionized, virtually all school district employees are unionized. Until recently, almost all conditions of unionized public employee employment had to be delineated in a collectively bargained agreement. Consequently, it was very difficult to remove bad teachers and to reward good teachers. It took an Act of Congress to remove even the worst teachers, and doing so could cost a community millions in attorney fees. A high school teacher in Cedarburg was fired for viewing porn at school while working on his school district computer, in violation of the high school’s computer use policy which strictly prohibited “accessing, sending or displaying offensive messages, pictures or child pornography.” (Among other images, Robert Zellner had retained photographs of female students of the district wearing bikinis while on a school-sponsored trip to Hawaii that Zellner chaperoned.) Zellner was a union activist, so the teachers’ union dug in and resisted the personnel change, filing suit in federal court and taking the matter all the way to the U.S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals. The union eventually lost, but in its nearly three-year effort to keep fired teacher Robert Zellner from returning to Cedarburg High School, the school district spent roughly $267,000 on legal expenses — enough to pay the annual salary and pre-Walker benefits of four teachers.
It has been well-reported that under collective bargaining, districts have been stuck with the teacher union health insurance company — like the Wisconsin Education Association Council (WEAC) in Wisconsin — which can cost $3,000-plus per teacher more over a plan that is virtually identical to that which another company is willing to provide. In Wisconsin, WEAC had grossly abused that privilege for decades, resulting in the unnecessary siphoning of millions of dollars from Wisconsin public schools. Taxpayers were the big losers.
Under collective bargaining, any changes in the teaching schedule are not determined by the employer, but rather must be agreed to by the employees — the teachers’ union. If a school district wants to change their schedule to match private schools and save money on bussing costs, the union must first sign off. Seventy-page contracts may also require that a teacher is entitled to 13 paid personal days — this for employees who may only be required to work 190 days a year in the first place.
The cost savings to Wisconsin school districts are already producing miraculous stories of fiscal recovery and educational improvement. In New Berlin, the school district went from a $3 million deficit to balancing its budget, and actually lowered school property tax by one percent. New Berlin’s director of financial services, Roger Dickson, says that the changes to collective bargaining gave schools the “tools” to plug most of the $3 million hole.
In Kaukauna, Act 10 has allowed the school district to hire additional teachers, and to reduce projected class sizes: 26 students to 23 students at the elementary level, 28 students to 26 students at the intermediate/middle level, and 31 students to 25 students at the high school level. In addition, time is now available for staff to identify and support students needing individual assistance through individual and small group exercises. Act 10 has allowed the district’s projected operating budget to improve from a $400,000 deficit to approximately $1,500,000 in the black. Earmarked in the operating budget are $300,000 related to merit pay, a program being explored for all staff for the 2011-2012 school year. To top it off, Kaukauna is planning to hire more teachers.
Collective bargaining is harmful to schools and students, costs an exorbitant amount of money, and lowers the quality of education. Even some of the most liberal organizations who otherwise support collective bargaining agree that it hurts not only teachers, but students, and our education system as a whole.
If one listened to the violent rhetoric of the public employee unions, one would have expected today to be a dark day for education in Wisconsin. “This is a disaster,” said Wisconsin Senate Democratic leader Mark Miller in February after Governor Scott Walker first proposed Act 10. Miller predicted catastrophe if the bill were to become law, a charge repeated thousands of times by his fellow Democrats, union officials, and protesters in the streets. Now the bill is law, and we have evidence of how wonderfully it is working. Instead of a catastrophe, it is a day of miraculous optimism, balanced budgets, educational improvement, and fiscal recovery.
There is a lot of speculation as to what the fallout will be in the wake of these conservative successes. Wisconsin residents witnessing the miracle may well vote to keep the state solidly conservative. And with other states witnessing the miracle in Wisconsin, states across the country could begin a reformation which will not only tilt the political momentum in other states to the right, but perhaps even serve as the template for Congress and become instrumental in saving a nation on the brink of insolvency.
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Thank you thank you thank you!! Let’s all pray that some eyes are opened to the good in something
Well I will proudly say this…even with the Wisconsin cuts, public school teachers in the state make far…FAR too much.
I care about my kids. I ensure they get a good breakfast and make sure they learn at the private school they go to. I work with their teachers to make sure my kids have the best chance in life, knowing that it is through hard work and a love of Jesus that they exceed.
I have no tolerance or patience for parents unwilling to do the same. I fail to see why I must pay for failing public schools to babysit hooligans that have no hope of doing anything but committing crimes.
We in America need to recognize that only under communism is the concept that each child is the same, ergo should be treated the treated the same. This is an alien and unnatural concept that needs to be stamped out. Just as I cannot teach some thug breaking into a car to be a responsible adult, I cannot expect to turn his child into one either. Yeah…I expect the PC police to get all up in arms, but it is the truth. We need to realize that there is a select group of Americans that warrant our money and support…anything else is a waste.
Wow.
I came to this site at the recommendation of a relative, who thought we might find common ground in this piece. I am the parent of a child who goes to a public school in Wisconsin.
My son is a child of God, not a hooligan.
I’m stunned by what you represent as Christianity . The Jesus I teach my son about teaches us to love our neighbors as ourselves (yes, even the ones who seem unlovable). The Jesus my son learns about embraced the lowly and the reviled. The Jesus Christ my son learns about made the ultimate sacrifice for sinners, not just perfect people. What, exactly, does your son learn about Jesus Christ? It must be from a different Bible.
Like you, I make sure my son eats a healthy breakfast. My wife and I work with his teachers to be sure he learns to spell and remembers his multiplication tables and — even more importantly — learns to be a responsible and caring human being. It is true that a small number of children in his school have difficulties — difficulties that may indeed be caused by poor parenting. But I see the very capable and caring teachers in my son’s school as being among the influences who might help guide those children into worthwhile jobs and productive lives, thus keeping them out of prisons later (which, by the way, are far more expensive than schools, per capita).
The notion you mention — that each child should be treated the same — arises not from communism, but from our own Declaration of Independence: “All men are created equal…”
If you don’t want to support anything that other people who you consider unworthy might just happen to benefit from, please don’t go to the public library. Please don’t walk on the sidewalk, drink water from your tap, drive on any roads, call the police if you are struck by a car, or the fire department if your house catches on fire. Please don’t buy any kind of insurance (it’s shared risk, after all, and other less-healthy people, or people who are worse drivers than you are will get more payouts from it). Please don’t consult a lawyer, use an accountant, hire contractor, or go to a dentist or doctor who was educated in a public school or state university. When you are very old, please don’t let a nurse’s aide, who was educated in a public school, spoon food into your mouth.
Here in California, I’m sure we’ll be rather similar to Chicago on the issue of gun control. The rest of the country will have enacted these reforms, and be prospering as a result; here in CA we’ll hear that if we do these things, it will destroy our state’s infrastructure, and cause old ladies to be starving in the streets. We desperately need $400K/year bureaucrats in every department of our government, because without them, where would we spend all that tax money we send Sacramento?
Dang I wish people had more sense…
They do have more sense … they just don’t live in California – the one state that, if it fell into the Pacific Ocean tomorrow, some would give a sigh of relief.
I feel your pain. I grew up in the Golden State. Left it about eight years ago. California politicians have managed reverse alchemy: turning the Golden State’s former 7th largest economy in the world into a lead balloon.
I can hardly wait to find out how the unions will fare now that the state won’t collect dues from their members anymore and pay them over to the unions. Now that would be an article worth reading!
About 2-3 weeks ago, the state teachers union in Wisconsin laid off about a third of their staff. It must be hard to make ends meet when people aren’t forced to pay union dues.
Read “The Road to Serfdom ” by F. Hayek.
It explains clearly why collective action and central control lead to a servile population and loss of liberty.
just cause you mentioned Hayek…
Fight of the Century: Keynes vs. Hayek Round Two
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTQnarzmTOc&feature=player_embedded
Looked to me as if Hayek won. But then again, I guess Keynes has the press on his side, so it got reported as a tie!
Every person in America should read that book. It should be taught in school civics classes, and should be a mandatory core study subject in college.
it would even give Chris Matthews a thrilling twinge down his leg …. if he had the courage and intestinal fortitude to read it, that is.
I must have missed this story in the ABC broadcasts, New York Times, Washington Post, L A Times, Boston Globe, MSNBC/NBC anything, CBS,PBS,All Things Considered and the rest of main stream lying media.
Why did I see one of the R Senators being recalled on the 22nd? What gives?
6 Repulican Senators are up for re-call because of their vote yes on the Scott Walker Bill on Colective Bargaining.
3 Deomocratic Senators are up for re-call a week later because of their 3 week stay in Illinois to avoid a quorom on the above vote.
Lots of dollars from outside of Wisconsin flowing in to suppport the Democratic Senators and flip the Senate back to the Dems.
So no seats have changed hands yet in a recall?
The elections are being held this summer; I think state law requires them to be held within 90 days of enough signatures being certified on the ballots. The Dems have won 1 election so far (and, of course, the D-Party claimed it was a “mandate” against Scott Walker’s reforms!).
Sad, sad people, those Dems.
And… the Dem that won was one of the Senators under recall, therefore a “mandate by no flip”.
Names please so we can support Rs….
Wisconsin Club for Growth is taking donations for the whole slate:
https://secure.yourpatriot.com/ou/wicfg/wisconsin_contributions/donate.aspx
“Zellner was a union activist, so the teachers’ union dug in and resisted the personnel change, filing suit in federal court and taking the matter all the way to the U.S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals. The union eventually lost, but in its nearly three-year effort to keep fired teacher Robert Zellner from returning to Cedarburg High School, the school district spent roughly $267,000 on legal expenses — enough to pay the annual salary and pre-Walker benefits of four teachers.”
I’m getting sick and tired of hearing stories like this all over the country. This sounded like a frivolous law suit and the Union should have been stuck with all of the legal fees for the school district AND all of the court fees for bringing up this case. That is how unions and the far-left act today. They still think they can get anything they want simply by suing people and making them lose thousands of dollars, even if they lose the case. So for years union workers have blackmailed states simply by threatening to go to court, forcing the states to bend to the union’s will rather than have to pay all of the massive court and legal fees.
This is blackmail of the worst kind. Because if you don’t have lots of money to defend yourself in court, then you have to bend to the will of the unions. And that is just, plain, wrong. There needs to be massive tort reform in this country to break the backs of those who always want to use our legal system as an expensive weapon against all citizens, whether they are in government or not. But you certainly will NOT see the Obama administration do anything about that. Nope. Just another reason to throw these bums out of office in 2012.
Throwing out the accumulated trash in 2012 is only an available first step in recovering the public’s monumental losses cultivated through media mind control of all encouraged to vote according to mislead dreams of historically unqualified dues paid or tax paid leadership staged from inception for the sole purpose of inevitable metastasizing future control. But little can be expected from media if they only consider work from their parasite level of investment and market projections and ignore the cancer of expanding exposed corrupt government.
Psychologist’s jury screening process is only the tip of an iceberg used broadly by those willing to sacrifice their principle of moral law while violating the principle of sufficient reason of all misused in miscarriage of justice with ignored guaranteed “jury of peers”. In prosecution’s mind the principle of moral law is only applicable to character assassination of any prospective peer. Similar practices are used to elevate of discredit anyone inspired to enlighten any union membership without using a twelve pound sledge hammer.
Where can you find anyone willing to consider that UAW and other unions demands for benefit paid unbridled rising healthcare costs is what brought GM to crash point while promoting urban gas hogs?
With no informed means to do battle against lobby legislated FDA protection for harmful pharmaceutical products and laws restricting doctors to distribution of their approved meds and methods does anyone really believe that the cost of all the TV ads relative to doctor only prescribed chemicals will be paid by any means other than either consumer consumption or tax paid mandate? The rest of the educated world rejects their poisons out of hand while all attached insurance, distribution and legal parasites enjoy their media approved free rides.
The only viable cure for either cancer is the financial starvation at its root and boycott at its advertised blossom. Those in the lower house influenced by grassroots uprising deserve knighthood. Conclusion can not be expected in 2012 but eternal vigilance must persist.
I agree with your overall theme, but I would suggest that the real key to taking back our country is citizens turning back into active, informed voters again. Two events over the past 10 years swung the national pendulum back in this direction; 9/11, and the election of Barack Obama by the mainstream media.
People are starting to wake up and understand that this country is in crisis mode, and the 2010 election was the first of, I think, many shattering, game-changing elections to come for liberals.
But it takes people becoming more engaged, and better informed about the issues. The Internet is a key component of that movement, but the grassroots power (for example, the Tea Party) will be the driving force.
Fat chance of that happening.
When I read heart-warming articles like this one, I begin to feel that perhaps there is a chance that our country will survive unions, socialism-that (you know)-isn’t-really-socialism, Oblather, Pelosi, Reid, Schumer, Durbin and all of the other Lefty thugs.
The article may be heart-warming but the battle is far from over. Wisconsin is still besieged by idiots who refuse to acknowledge the results of the contentious bill that created a balanced state budget, saved and created jobs and is stimulating the state economy. Recall elections are going forward against the Republicans who did the work of debating and voting on the collective bargaining/budget bill. These legislators are facing recall for doing their jobs while the absconding Democrats who fled to Illinois to avoid doing theirs are lionized as heroes. The Wisconsin capital building continues to be despoiled by liberal nut cases performing their passive-aggressive protests stunts, wailing that “this is what democracy looks like” and shouting “shame” at Republican legislators and Governor Walker.
Now, maybe, we can begin to move to the situation where ALL public sector employees are covered by social security and Medicare, just like all of us peasants who pay their salaries.
Indeed. Also, no pensions for elected officials. Not even the president.
How about individuals are responsible for their own retirement and medical bills?
How about term limits for EVERYBODY! From the President on down, throughout federal and state governments … two terms, and then you go do something else with your life. No more “career” politicians – this country needs citizen part-time legislators again.
Not only do we need Term Limits but we also need a mechanism to recall any politician who doesn’t perform before his term is up.In the last year of the politician’s term he may do things that warrant his recall.
Why two terms?
Great idea!! Now you must choose between Hoffa’s misuse of Teamsters Pension Funds to finance the building of the first casino in Vegas or Gov. Edwards absconding with $10 to $20 million of state retirement fund. Best leave any money where you can get your hands on the holder’s neck. Both paid the price but you can’t get blood out of a turnip dead or alive.
One hopes that the people of Wisconsin will have an eye-opening experience like the guy who quits smoking and loses twenty pounds- they didn’t really appreciate the burden they were dragging around until it was lifted. All that sclerosis they have been suffering, as a direct result of union greed!
It’s not a “miracle.” A miracle is inexplicable or improbable.
The outcome in Wisconsin was entirely predictable, and was fully expected by anyone who wasn’t a hysterical union demagogue fighting desperately to protect their power.
Calling it a “miracle,” instead of the natural and inevitable outcome of responsible governance, gives credence to those demagogues.
Wisconsin Senate Democratic leader Mark Miller was right. It is a disaster….
For the Democrats!!
Nice work Wisconsin. Governor Walker and the REPUBLICAN legislature have paved the way with leadership.
I have the feeling we won’t be seeing these sorts of reports on CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS NBC NY Time etc…
I hope the word is spreading in Wisconsin….and through other states. Maybe even Washington D.C….ok maybe a pipe dream.
Public employee unions are lead by modern day Dracula’s, they are financial vampires, they will suck the life blood out of tax payers and then demand more victims.
I hate how there is so much heart-felt hatred expressed by those who claim to be God-fearing people.
Please expand on your comment.
Some of you act like Demorats will see the light because of the success of Gov. Walker. You are wrong! Look at any thing that has happened in our country since GWB was elected and you will see a “We don’t give a damn if it worked or not ” attitude from Demorats and they will go back to their old ways just as soon as they get the power back. Look at the surge in Iraq or the drug bill for seniors. Both are vilified by the Dems every time they are mentioned. Look at the 2010 elections and the gains that the conservatives and Tea Party made but the Dems have ignored all of it. When the need to cut federal spending they immediately claim that old people and the poor children will suffer the most. Who cut $500 BILLION out of Medicare? It was ALL Demorats with ZERO Republican votes on Obamacare which does cut the billions from Obamacare. No, it is up to the people of Wisconsin to see the light and vote the greedy fools out.
There is nothing wrong with hatred! Should we not hate Nazis? Should we not hate those who want to kill us and destroy our way of life? You go run and hide while someone else protects you with their icky “hate,” aka defending their lives.
Even private sector unions have outlived their usefulness but public service unions are dangerous because they aren’t constrained by the need to keep their host organism alive. Liberal, bought-and-paid-for politicians fight fiercely for taxes, fees, bonds and regulations that keep feeding union demands. It is easy to see why Obama had to intercede in the GM/UAW problem even if it meant trampling all over our legal and constitutional processes. The host was dying and UAW leaders were never going to admit that they were a root cause and alter their behavior.
The most galling part of all of this is that the only reason that unions can get such high pay, benefits and early retirement while limiting their obligations to produce and perform is because the rest of us do not get these things. It is easy to see that if we all were able to demand the same exalted treatment, cost increases and lower productivity would send prices skyrocketing and any wage and benefit gains in the private sector would be more than cancelled out. And since we are in a global economy, exports and jobs would be lost in droves.
Raising taxes on businesses is not the answer. It just increases prices and chases away private sector jobs. Higher taxes on wealthy “millionaires and billionaires” (who according to Obama includes any family making over $250,000) are not going to make a difference. There are not enough of them and they are also are most prolific job creators.
So next time you come upon a public union protest, ignore their signs and slogans and understand that they are really demanding that the rest of us remain in the serfdom also known as the “American private sector middle class” so that they can hang on to their privileged lifestyles.
Fantastic to hear such good news. BUT DO NOT BE FOOLED! this will have no effect on corrupt unions and their govt supporters from waging an all out war against walker and the ‘evil’ conservs who dared to try and act responsibly. Remember the unions and govt are not about logic or even deecency, they are children. they want what they want, when they want, how they want. damn the costs cause they are not paying. Communism and Unions are the same animal. Unions are communism in a very small form. but it boils to the same thing. ‘THE CORRUPT LEADING THE CLUELESS TO OBLIVION!’ keep up the good work Mr Walker and keep fighting!
I truly wish another picture had been chosen for this article.
This article is just ridiculous. The author demonstrates he has no idea what collective bargaining is, and the conclusion that money has been saved is obvious. Of course it has – by stripping away the ability of a union to negotiate with management, management is going to force upon the members what they want – and that’s cuts to their negotiated (in good faith) benefits. We can all reasonably argue about whether or not teachers should get Benefit A or Salary B, but by taking away their ability to have a say in that process, management wins.
J, I’m wondering what you think negotiations without a union are. I have to do it all the time since I’m an independent contractor.
Of course the teachers will have a say in the process; it just won’t happen with a union. That’s how most of us live.
I disagree – I think the author has a fine grasp of what collective bargaining is. I think he as many others on this forum agree that it should have no place in the public sector. BTW, the Wisconsin limitations on collective bargaining only apply to benefits – not wages.
J,
What you fail to mention in your accusation is that, when dealing with public-sector unions, the deck is stacked totally against the taxpayer. Look at it this way:
The unions support democratic candidates for office, and their support gets them elected. Then the time comes around for contract negotiations, and the unions sit down at the table with who? Oh, yeah. The same people they helped to get elected.
In the private sector, the company has a fiduciary responsibility to get the best deal possible for the company, and the union has the responsibility of getting the best deal possible for the union members.
In the public sector, the union is trying to get the best deal they can, but they also have leverage over the people on the other side of the table, since they contribute to the campaigns of those officials.
As far as taking away a teacher’s ability to have a say in the process, that is not true at all. If it were true, no employee anywhere would have a say in the matter.
I have a say – I can ask for a better package, and if my employer says no, I can look for work elsewhere, and see if I can get a better package there.
It’s called the “real world”.
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I can tell this is a very conservative website, but I will be civil.
I am an economist (non union), my wife is an accountant, and my mom is a retired school teacher.
-Do you really think that in the couple of months this bill has been in effect that it has saved the state 3 billion plus dollars thus balancing the budget? At that rate the state will soon have a surplus of Billions. Maybe the deficit was overstated as many have suggested.
-This bill really only effects state union workers, and state workers are traditionally less than 10% of the working population of a state. So less than 10% of the work force paying more into their benefits has made this much difference?
-My Mother as a retired teacher of over 30 years, now has a pension of $28,000 per year. She can almost afford a car at that level. She still works 30 hour a week to make ends meet. Reality!
-Basic economics is if you take money out of the evil teachers pockets, they will have less to spend at stores. Thus stores sell less and lay off people in the private sector.
-Every economic model has shown that the main problem is huge tax cuts to corporations. I pay more taxes than many wealthy companies.
-Companies leave the country to produce goods because the USA does not charge large tariffs for their goods to enter here, but other countries charge large tariffs on U.S. goods to go there. This is why companies leave, it is just icing on the cake when we give them tax breaks. Change the tariff laws and companies will quit leaving.
-I am sorry that this article sites some horrible and probably true incidents of trips and waste, but that is the minority. I have worked in the private sector over 30 years and I can cite some terrible examples of wasted money and favors.
- The numbers in this article do not really add up.
Yes, paying people to teach your kids to be less ignorant than you fools is a horrible idea.
I am an accountant. My wife is a teacher.
Interesting that an economist looks at a two-year budget projection swinging from a deficit to a surplus based on a reduction in costs and claims that such a change cannot occur in a couple of months??? The surplus or deficit is calculated by estimating revenues (under current law) and expenses (under current law and existing contracts) that can be used to project a two year budget and are planned to occur over those two years in the future. We can do that math.
So who called the teachers evil? Every penny that goes to public employees comes from the private sector, people like me and you. Either through current taxes (income, property, sales, etc.) or the taxes that will be required to pay the interest (and hopefully someday) the principal on debt obligations issued to pay employees current wages or future health and pension obligations. The more borrowing is incurred, the more transfer there is of this obligation to our children and grandchildren. The point is that when the private economy suffers, there needs to be an impact on the public sector, it cannot be sheltered nor spared the same pain as those who pay its bills.
These changes in the law and their effect on the two-year budget show that adjustments in the shared funding of the pensions also shares the impact of the difficulties in the private sector. Saying that reducing these expenses paid to the public sector from diminishing available private funds will hurt the economy is like saying the only way to reduce the deficit and grow the economy is to increase the debt.
I am also surprised that the Smoot-Hawley tariff debacle is not considered by an economist. Tariff wars have no winners! Corporations NEVER pay taxes! The customers pay the taxes through the higher price for goods and services provided by the corporation, or the employees pay it through reduced wages and benefits, and possibly reductions in force, or the shareholders pay it through reduced dividends and stagnant share values. Dividends and share appreciation increase the value of . . . pensions and 401k assets. Many held by public pension plans.
Thanks to your mother for her years of dedication to the children. I marvel at all my wife does and the sacrifices teachers make to teach our next generation of (hopefully) responsible and productive citizens. Good teachers are undervalued by our society.
Amen brother
About the democrats who fled the state to prevent (obstruct?) the vote, The state needs to pass a procedurtal rule that says anytime a lawmaker or group of lawmakers leave the state, the number needed to make a quorrum will be reduced by that number thereby preventing the fleeing lawmakers from benifitting from this tactic. It is patenly unfair for lawmakers to be able to highjack a lawful vote in this way.
Can not wait to recall Walker, and the rest of the Rep.
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