Update, 2/21: It appears Senators will hold with Governor Walker.
What a surprise. Why does the Republican Party even exist? When it matters most their members go for the media spotlight, ignore the voters and betray their Governor.
2/20/11, "Moderate Wisconsin Republicans Offer Compromise," Wall St. Journal, Belkin, Maher
"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."...
- (What a surprise. Senator Schultz earned his reputation by "working across party lines:" ed.)
(continuing, WSJ): "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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Gateway Pundit lists the websites of Wisconsin Republican Senators. At this point, they stand between us
- and the abyss.
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