Posted on 02/18/2011 7:29:46 AM PST by Libloather
AWOL Wisconsin Democrat calls CNN with list of demands
By Mary Katharine Ham - The Daily Caller
Updated: 4:31 PM 02/17/2011
State Senator Mark Miller, a member of the missing band of Wisconsin Democratic lawmakers who fled Madison Thursday to avoid a vote on a budget bill, called into CNN with the group’s list of demands for Republican Gov. Scott Walker.
Miller, a state senator since 2004, would not disclose where he and his colleagues were hiding out, saying only “we are in what we consider a secure location outside the capital. We are not all in one place at this time.”
Miller’s demands focused on the collective bargaining portions of the bill.
“We demand that the provisions that completely eliminate the ability of workers… to negotiate on a fair basis with their employers be removed from the budget repair bill and any other future budget,” Miller said.
He also demanded legislative oversight on changes to the state’s medical programs, which are targeted for changes in the bill. The bill would also require union members to contribute to their health care and pensions.
Miller and 13 other Democrats went missing Thursday morning when a vote on a budget-repair measure was imminent in the Republican-controlled Senate. It would have passed the Senate after getting out of committee on a party-line vote late last night, so Democrats left the building to stall a vote on the measure.
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We need to send in a Seal Team, capture these terrorists and get them back to the GITMO version holding area in Wisonsin...
ACCEPT THE RESIGNATIONS. APPOINT NEW PEOPLE. VOTE.
I hope each of them get run out of office! =.=
Hey azzclown, we won, get back to work!
3 days no call and no show is considered quitting a job in everyplace I’ve ever worked.
You are in no position to demand S**T.
Fire. Appoint. Vote.
Only think how bad the Democrats will feel when they find out their terrorist tactics no longer work.
People who lose elections don't get to make demands.
They ought to fire every damn teacher protesting!
Einstein he is not.
I guess the idiot doesn't understand that he isn't in any position to demand anything since he is running like a coward from his sworn duty.
Gov. Walker should quote the immortal words of BO, “We won.”
Tough luck to the union thugs...many hundreds of whom were bused in by the president’s Chicago mafia.
And by the way, where are the TEA Party members in WI? Why aren’t they standing with the governor and GOP newcomers in this fight? Are they fair weather patriots, who only show up on election day and let others do the heavy lifting? It’s taxpayer money that enables these fat cat union members to fleece the tax drones who are paying for all their very generous benefits.
Has the mainstream media declared that the Democrats are holding the people of Wisconsin hostage?
Precisely! Remember when Obama and the dems were cramming their socialist agenda down our throats? What was their response to our objections? “We won. Deal with it.”
The governor should tell these protesting leeches that they report for work on Monday morning, or they will be replaced with those eager and equally able to do their jobs.
Hey Governor, it’s time to start the firing process. Do it alphabetically or by seniority, whatever is easiest.
Start now and we’ll be done by 5 pm this evening. That’s what we call Mission Accomplished!
It’s time for the Bowman option.
The hypocrisy of the media is just so overwhelming. If this were Republicans doing this, there would be teams of reporter scouring the state looking for and reporting on them.
These Senators will now be looked on as “heroes” by the media...standing up for the “working man”. Just wait and see...
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