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Walker to fleebag Dems: You’ve got 24 hours to return or the layoffs begin

Well here we go. Two weeks of shutting down the state’s Senate had to lead somewhere, and it’s leading to layoffs for the state workers the Democrats claim to be defending:

A statement released by Gov. Scott Walker’s office on Monday says the option of refinancing debt in order to save $165 million will be lost unless Senate Democrats return to work and vote on it by Tuesday. …

Werwie [the governor's spokesman] said he was giving the Democrats 24-hour notice. He added that the governor will delay sending out layoff notices “as long as possible.”

Walker is also scheduled to address a joint session of the Wisconsin legislature tomorrow evening. This address was originally set for Feb 22, but the fleebaggers’ run to the Tilted Kilt scuttled that. Now the speech is on, the layoffs are in play and the fleebaggers are still absent. It seems that Wisconsin will move, one way or another, this week.

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3 Comments, 3 Threads, 1 Trackbacks

1. Anonymous

Yeah, baby! Should’ve voted on it Demo-rats, now a bunch of sore and voting union consitituents will lose their jobs ’cause of you!

February 28, 2011 - 11:38 am Link to this Comment
2. Tcobb

I suspect the layoff notices will be sent out. The power of the unions means everything to them–the people who the unions are meant to represent mean nothing to them.

February 28, 2011 - 11:43 am Link to this Comment
3. Itzaak Sirius

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.

“Abraham Lincoln himself famously tried to deny his political opponents quorum through a very unorthodox method of departure in 1840.

Lincoln, then a young Whig state congressman, was a major backer of Illinois’s State Bank. The bank had been authorized to suspend its specie payments (payments in coin) until the end of the legislative session in December. Lincoln and his fellow Whigs, then in the minority, naturally sought to extend the session indefinitely and hence delay the resumption of specie payments.

So Lincoln jumped out the window.”

http://hnn.us/roundup/41.html#136982

February 28, 2011 - 11:56 am Link to this Comment