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AWOL Democrats Experiencing 'Dissension in the Ranks'
FoxNation.com ^ | March 1 | Staff

Posted on 03/01/2011 9:44:09 AM PST by JesseWatters

Fox Nation has learned exclusively from a highly placed source within Wisconsin state politics that the fourteen AWOL Democrats are experiencing "dissension in the ranks." State Sen. Julie Lassa (D) is pregnant and "extremely unhappy" about being on the run. State Sen. Jon Erpenbach (D) has been hit particularly hard by his paycheck being withheld.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Wisconsin
KEYWORDS: capitol; cryingrats; fleebaggers; wisconsin; wisconsinshowdown
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To: JesseWatters
State Sen. Julie Lassa is pregnant...

Choice!

41 posted on 03/01/2011 10:40:46 AM PST by clintonh8r (Member Emeritus of Vitriolics Anonymous.)
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To: JesseWatters
State Sen. Julie Lassa (D) is pregnant and "extremely unhappy" about being on the run.

She's a lib dem. I'm surprised Planned Parenthood isn't offering to perform an abortion at her hotel.

42 posted on 03/01/2011 10:44:15 AM PST by NewHampshireDuo
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To: Argus
I pray that the pregnant Legislator not allow her child to be hurt by a shallow partisan political tantrum.
And as to the flippant observation that ‘Illinois has doctors’, there are reasons for pregnant women to receive consistent medical care for the duration of the pregnancy.
TWB
43 posted on 03/01/2011 10:49:20 AM PST by TWhiteBear (Jobs, Peace, Food, Security .... Down with Obama(Peacefully))
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To: Truth29

Um...all the Tea Partiers are at work.


44 posted on 03/01/2011 10:51:03 AM PST by misharu (I am an Independent Conservative who caucuses with the Republicans (for now).)
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To: Truth29

Last Saturday we held a huge tea party rally at the Capitol on the other side of the building. The Capitol police told us we could NOT go in the building. However, the union thugs and their useful idiots on the other side were allowed in.

Many of our people had signs that said “We can only protest on Saturday because we WORK Monday through Friday”


45 posted on 03/01/2011 10:57:18 AM PST by Wisconsinlady (DEFUND NPR, PBS, THE TSA AND THE U.N.)
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To: clintonh8r
State Sen. Julie Lassa is pregnant...

Choice!

Yes, surprised her flee-bagging friends have not demanded that she get her government endorsed mandatory abortion. Sheesh, doesn't she understand the meaning of choice?? /sarc

46 posted on 03/01/2011 11:00:14 AM PST by The Citizen Soldier (Obama: All turban, no camels.)
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To: Wisconsinlady
"Last Saturday we held a huge tea party rally at the Capitol on the other side of the building. The Capitol police told us we could NOT go in the building. However, the union thugs and their useful idiots on the other side were allowed in."

That's a vivid example of part of the problem and how hard the fight is. I don't know how you solve this, but part of the government is in union and leftist hands and is actively working against the taxpayers who are becoming tax serfs who exist to support a new ruling class.

47 posted on 03/01/2011 11:02:39 AM PST by Truth29
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To: PapaBear3625
"Illinois has doctors."

Illinois has doctors?

48 posted on 03/01/2011 11:05:09 AM PST by BlueLancer (Nuke Austin from orbit .... it's the only way to be sure.)
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To: JesseWatters

Life can be tough if you are doing the wrong thing.


49 posted on 03/01/2011 11:18:03 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: JLAGRAYFOX
WOW,

FOX,

You are really pissed and you nailed it.

If the demonRATs think that they are coming home to a parade, they better get used to rotten eggs and tomatoes.

Shit will taste better than what will be shoved down their throats.

50 posted on 03/01/2011 11:24:29 AM PST by USS Alaska (Nuke the terrorist savages, in honor of Standing Wolf.)
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To: JesseWatters

I don’t care about their difficulties.


51 posted on 03/01/2011 11:26:10 AM PST by Shimmer1
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To: Shimmer1
Cry me a river. Gosh, it sure sucks to be a Flee-bagging Donkey, doesn't it?
52 posted on 03/01/2011 11:44:36 AM PST by MasterGunner01 (To err is human; to forgive is not our policy. -- SEAL Team SIX)
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To: Dacula

She is 8 MONTHS pregnant so she is probably a little uncomfortable just from that. They care close to giving up because they now realize two things. #1 Gov Walker is not caving #2 Even the RINO Republican Senators are standing behind Walker....Game, set, match. The Dems have 0 power in this situation, even with the sympathetic media they still have no way to get Walker to ‘compromise’.


53 posted on 03/01/2011 11:45:16 AM PST by milwguy
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To: PapaBear3625
>When is Julie’s next docotr’s appointment? She whould be concerned for the health of her unborn child.

>>Illinois has doctors.

I hear they still treat with leaches.

54 posted on 03/01/2011 12:24:47 PM PST by sbMKE
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To: JesseWatters
Look for the Union label.


55 posted on 03/01/2011 12:29:28 PM PST by VeniVidiVici (Why are public employee unions attacking taxpayers?)
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To: mewzilla
Can someone explain to me why the state legislature hasn’t passed a bill declaring the seats of AWOL members to be vacant after a certain number of missed days. That would make the need for a recall moot. And it might just get the AWOL members’ butts back faster.

No need to pass a new bill, one already exists, but the threshold is 30 days. The clock is ticking...

the infowarrior

56 posted on 03/01/2011 1:18:46 PM PST by infowarrior
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To: Buckeye Battle Cry
Mew - they don;t have to. Wisconsin statutes already provide that the Governor can declare their seats vacated if they fail to appear for thirty consecutive days.

Cite, please. Thanks!

57 posted on 03/01/2011 1:56:18 PM PST by Monitor ("The urge to save humanity is almost always a false-front for the urge to rule it." - H. L. Mencken)
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To: MasterGunner01

Thank God I don’t know personally.


58 posted on 03/01/2011 2:27:56 PM PST by Shimmer1
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To: JesseWatters

Wallstreet Journal * FEBRUARY 26, 2011

Wisconsin’s Newest Progressive
The Republican governor wants a new social contract.

By JOHN FUND

Snip:

“I very much want to avoid laying people off,” Mr. Walker says. But his experience as county executive taught him that “not everyone feels that way. During budget crises I would push for a couple of weeks where workers would only put in 35 hours so we didn’t have to cut jobs, but union leaders would say no. It’s reactionary.” He says there’s a gulf between the interests of union leaders and those of their members. “When they say it’s about worker rights, it’s really about big union bosses running their own political dynasties.” That’s why the parts of his plan that most stick in the craw of union leaders are the ones that would limit their power.


Snip:

Mr. Walker says that the employee rights that people care about are protected by civil-service rules, not collective bargaining. “We have the strongest protections in the country on grievance procedures, merit hiring, and just cause for disciplining and terminating employees,” he says. “None of that changes under my plan.” Mr. Walker notes that the single largest group affected by his proposal are the 30,000 workers at the University of Wisconsin who were only granted collective-bargaining rights in 2009. “If they only got them two years ago, how can you say they’re set in stone?”

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704150604576166034245532792.html#printMode


59 posted on 03/01/2011 3:02:32 PM PST by KeyLargo
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To: kevkrom

I’d bet Walker had a talk with Rick Perry. Perry waited out the Democrats when they took off in 2003. It’s not like it’s the first time this tactic has been pulled.


60 posted on 03/01/2011 3:07:27 PM PST by Richard Kimball
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