Posted on 02/20/2011 7:57:04 PM PST by GreaterSwiss
With Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker maintaining a hard line on his budget bill and Democratic senators refusing to return to Madison to vote, attention is turning to a group of moderate Republican senators to negotiate a compromise to the stalemate that has drawn thousands of protesters to the state capital for a sixth straight day.
The proposal, written by Sen. Dale Schultz and first floated in the Republican caucus early last week, calls for most collective bargaining rights of public employee unions to be eliminated – per Mr. Walker's bill – but then reinstated in 2013, said Mr. Schultzs's chief of staff Todd Allbaugh.
"Dale is committed to find a way to preserve collective bargaining in the future," said Mr. Allbaugh in a telephone interview.
On Sunday Mr. Walker reiterated his confidence that Republicans would pass their proposal intact.
"We're willing to take this as long as it takes because in the end we're doing the right thing for Wisconsin," Mr. Walker said during an interview with Fox News on Sunday.
Mr. Schultz was first elected to the state senate in 1991 and was the Republican majority leader in 2005 and 2006. He earned a reputation for working across party lines and was endorsed in his 2010 re-election bid by the state's largest teacher's employee. He won with nearly 65 percent of the vote.
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Agreed. Let’s not get all wee weed up over this story and thread. This is a fantasy story being pushed by the gang of 14 AWOL dems who are trying to find an out.
A Wisconsin GOP legislator was just on our local radio ten minutes ago. Said the group is not going to bend. Said their taxpayer constituents have made their resolve even stronger over the weekend. Both houses of the legislature will be in session tomorrow. The Assembly will take up the bill and pass it. The Senate will be in session and start debating non fiscal bills.
2012 and these POS are gone!
What was wrong with this first point you made? Agreed, compromise sucks when one party essentially gets screwed at the other party’s benefit.
From what I read, everything the Governor wants would stay intact, but be endanger of expiring in 2013. Hmm, now what happens prior to 2013? Oh yeah, 2012! I wonder if, perhaps, putting this timeline in place, helps motivate conservatives in WI to come out to the polls and support conservatives and the eventual nominee and be more strong about it than ever.
The point: If the bill is popular enough, 1 Dem will surely lose and GOP will keep its majorities. If the Dems win back power in the state houses even with the motivation on our side, then the issue mustn’t have reasonated as strongly as we thought.
So important questions. Of the 14 Democratic Senators on the run, who is up for reelection in 2012? If there’s a chance of beating them, then this date proposal might work. If not, then it probably sets the date for another battle but gives the GOP nominee the option to step in.
THIS IS THE EXACT REASON WHY OUR COUNTRY IS IN TROUBLE.
The irony, in Greece it was the public workers protesting over pensions and their cushy 55 year retirement age.
AND there were unemployed people on strike. (no job but on strike?)
To which I say to those dems... "stay away!" This is a golden opportunity to get some great legislation passed.
Ditto for VA. It works well here, too.
Moderate Republicans (RINOs) are the poster children of the term “stupid party.”
When winning WIN!
Some Republicans just insist on snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. Sen. Dale Schultz is one of them.
This comes from being close friends with the enemy. The RINO does not see themselves as one of the voters, the RINO sees himself/herself as one of the ruling class vs the serfs.
Red states work smarter! :)
Just a heads up, Florida already has something in the works similar to this for their school teachers. It was just introduced in the FL senate.
Just the fact that Schultz was endorsed by the Teachers’ Union in 2010 is cause for great concern. This union is very, very liberal and always endorse the Democrats.
Interesting because by 2013, there would be a new congress anyway.
What the hell is wrong with these jackholes? You do not surrender when you have the enemy on the run. Freakin’ morons. Traitorous morons.
The GOP and its RINOs will compromise us into slavery. They’d compromise liberty if it would benefit them.
http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/wis-gov-says-he-847868.html
MADISON, Wis. — Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker again rejected a proposed compromise Monday to end a political stalemate over collective bargaining rights.
Walker said Monday afternoon he wasn’t interested in compromises that have been floated by public employee unions and even a Republican state senator.
“For those 14 Senate Democrats, you’ve had your time,” Walker said. “Now it’s time to come home.”
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