Senate Majority Leader Fitzgerald Statement on Senate ActionPosted:
Mar 09, 2011 7:38 PM EST
MADISON, WI (Press Release) … After nearly a month of debate on the budget repair bill, nearly three weeks of childish stunts and delay tactics from the Democrats, the longest public hearing in state history and the longest Assembly debate in state history, the Senate met tonight to pass the non-fiscal items in the Budget Repair Bill. Sen. Fitzgerald released the following statement:
"Before the election, the Democrats promised "adult leadership" in Madison. Then a month and a half into session, the Senate Democrats fled the state instead of doing their job.
"In doing so, they have tarnished the very institution of the Wisconsin state Senate. This is unacceptable.
"This afternoon, following a week and a half of line-by-line negotiation, Sen. Miller sent me a letter that offered three options: 1) keep collective bargaining as is with no changes, 2) take our counter-offer, which would keep collective bargaining as is with no changes, 3) or stop talking altogether.
"With that letter, I realized that we're dealing with someone who is stalling indefinitely, and doesn't have a plan or an intention to return. His idea of compromise is "give me everything I want," and the only negotiating he's doing is through the media.
"Enough is enough." "The people of Wisconsin elected us to do a job. They elected us to stand up to the broken status quo, stop the constant expansion of government, balance the budget, create jobs and improve the economy. The longer the Democrats keep up this childish stunt, the longer the majority can't act on our agenda.
"Tonight, the Senate will be passing the items in the budget repair bill that we can, with the 19 members who actually DO show up and do their jobs. Those items include the long-overdue reform of collective bargaining needed to help local governments absorb these budget cuts, and the 12 percent health care premium and 5 percent pension contribution.
"We have confirmed with the Legislative Fiscal Bureau, the Legislative Council and the Legislative Reference Bureau that every item in tonight's bill follows the letter of the law.
"The people of Wisconsin elected us to come to Madison and do a job. Just because the Senate Democrats won't do theirs, doesn't mean we won't do ours."
NUFF SAID
10 comments:
Cheddar makes it better.
Nice to see the good guys win one.
You apparently have no idea how much this has woken up workers and Democrats. Yes, the good guys will win, the war if not this battle.
AHAHAHAHAHAHA
That's funny. The unions had to bus in protestors from other states!!!!!!
The majority of the people in Wisconsin and in the country in general are not public sector employees they are public sector EMPLOYERS! And the majority of these employers don't have any sympathy for people who make more money than them, get pensions that they don't pay for, get so called "cadillac" health care benefits that they don't pay for, and get job security that their employers don't get.
I don't think we have anything to worry about.
Gary, I hate to break this to you, but you arent the good guys.
The best part is after the vote, they still didnt want to come out from hiding because they thought it was a trap.
Cowards.
FYI to everyone. I deleted another nonsense comment from gary about how Bush is bad and tortures people.
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Way to go WI. Woke up the workers and dems, huh? What's the matter, the bus passed their house while they were in bed or something?
the GOOD guys won?
sorry, but this war is far from over and when the next election cycle comes around (very soon), and the union families (and millions of people who want keep the middle class alive and well) who unfortunately sat out the last election, will turn out in droves, swamping the BAD guys out of office. it will be a tsunami, gentlemen, a tsunami.
it ain't over 'til it's over. and to those of you who want to destroy america and the american way, true americans will show you that america is about hard working americans, not amoral nameless corporations who have not a patriotic bone in their bodies.
Tsunami eh? I see what you did there. Classy.
Got tired of the holocaust/nazi analogies?
And stop with the fucking evil corporations bs, it has nothing to do with this issue. This is why we don't take you seriously, you know not of which you speak.
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