Cull out the collective bargaining portion of the current budget bill and vote on it as a stand-alone non-budget bill.
Cull out the collective bargaining portion of the current budget bill and vote on it as a stand-alone non-budget bill. >>>>>>>
Seems like a no-brainer to me. Send out notices that this separate bill is lawful to pass with or without them. The AWOL Democrats can come and debate it or sit in Illinois or stay shut-ins at home
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Cull out the collective bargaining portion of the current budget bill and vote on it as a stand-alone non-budget bill.
YUP: As was asserted by “MoeLane” @ Redstate!
J.S.
That's what I was thinking. States have some odd arcane practices on statutes, so maybe there isn't a loophole. But it would seem to me that collective bargaining rights would be defined in state statute, not in budgetary bills. So you would think the statute could be changed in a non-budget bill. And even if they've been defined in budget bill language in the past, you could still put it in statute permanently.
The more I think about it, it's got to be a possibility. If the collective bargaining rules were in the budget bill, they'd only be in effect through the end of the fiscal year. So that wouldn't be a permanent change. Walker should just threaten to push through the collective bargaining changes as a separate measure.
Great idea.
What I don’t understand is why the pubs haven’t been doing these things all week. Further, if they are going to do these things, they shouldn’t announce it because that mob is going to go to their homes and threaten them not to even go to the capitol and if they go anyway, they will be blocked from entering the building.
They should have done it last week when they were there and not announced it - just done it.