The state senate needs a 2/3 quorum to vote to discipline any member.
What they should be doing is start sailing through all kinds of non-fiscal dream legislation (which don’t require the higher 20 person quorum): make WI a right-to-work state, concealed carry, etc. The pressure on the missing 14 to come back while that was going on would be irresistible.
Plus, they can strip out of the Budget Repair Bill the most controversial part — eliminating collective bargaining — and pass it right now. It’s not fiscal. Once that’s done, what reason would the 14 have for staying away? That’s really the overriding issue for them.
Just do it.
That is the obvious next step. I sure hope they do it.
Got it. Couldn’t agree more; get it over with and put them out of their misery.
Got it. Couldn’t agree more; get it over with and put them out of their misery.
Best idea I’ve read yet.