Wisconsin GOP Legislature Fast-Tracks Conservative Agenda In Anticipation of Recall S

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Wisconsin GOP Legislature Fast-Tracks Conservative Agenda In Anticipation of Recall Successes

May 07, 2011 05:00 PM

By karoli

It looks like Wisconsin Republicans are getting a bit nervous about the possibility they may lose their Senate majority via recalls this year. After a Democrat won a long-held solid Republican seat in a special election last week and ended the Republican supermajority, their legislative calendar has been ramped up.

Yahoo! News:

Quote: Republicans, in a rapid sequence of votes over the next eight weeks, plan to legalize concealed weapons, deregulate the telephone industry, require voters to show photo identification at the polls, expand school vouchers and undo an early release for prisoners.

Lawmakers may also act again on Walker's controversial plan stripping public employee unions of their collective bargaining rights. An earlier version, which led to massive protest demonstrations at the Capitol, has been left in limbo by legal challenges.

"Everything's been accelerated," said Republican Rep. Gary Tauchen, who is working on the photo ID bill. "We've got a lot of big bills we're trying to get done."

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Seems like they're going to get a self-fulfilling prophesy by doing all this shoving of bills down people's throats in anticipation of losing.

If this doesn't motivate voters, nothing will...

[azmouse]

It simply gives the Democrats a few bits of bad law to undo when they return to power... and return they will.
I can't wait to celebrate.

[Cha]

(05-07-2011 06:37 PM)azmouse Wrote:  It simply gives the Democrats a few bits of bad law to undo when they return to power... and return they will.
I can't wait to celebrate.

Thanks, azmouse..I needed a bright spot about now and you've said it perfectly~

[nofurylike]

when i got to the end of your OP and read "crooksandliars," i felt that that said it all.

thank you for posting this, TINS.

[NJMaverick]

before the public can have a say. You can say this about the GOP, they hate Americans, hate Democracy but sure love the wealthy elite.

Wisconsin Republicans rush agenda before recalls

Quote:MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Wisconsin Republican Gov. Scott Walker and GOP leaders have launched a push to ram several years' worth of conservative agenda items through the Legislature this spring before recall elections threaten to end the party's control of state government.

Republicans, in a rapid sequence of votes over the next eight weeks, plan to legalize concealed weapons, deregulate the telephone industry, require voters to show photo identification at the polls, expand school vouchers and undo an early release for prisoners.

Lawmakers may also act again on Walker's controversial plan stripping public employee unions of their collective bargaining rights. An earlier version, which led to massive protest demonstrations at the Capitol, has been left in limbo by legal challenges.

"Everything's been accelerated," said Republican Rep. Gary Tauchen, who is working on the photo ID bill. "We've got a lot of big bills we're trying to get done."

The GOP will punish the people of Wisconsin for not bowing to them and their crazy agenda!

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/U...7-13-46-46