Awesome things still happening in Wisconsin

This video is remarkable. Wisconsin Republicans barrel through committee a revised union-busting bill over the Democrats claim of illegality of procedure. I find these procedural fights in legislatures incredibly interesting and this one is up there with the best, complete with folksy Midwestern accents.  

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After weeks of insisting the union provisions were there for fiscal reasons - although evidence shows the existence of collective bargaining rights has no fiscal impact whatsoever, and after having virtually no public support for these provisions, the Republicans decided to agree with the rest of us that stripping collective-bargaining was a non-fiscal issue. Therefore, they pulled all the union-busting provisions into one bill and voted on it within minutes. Problem is a) they violated Wisconsin's open meetings laws and b) there are those unsure whether this bill had some fiscal provisions -- for example the benefit changes.  If the bill does have fiscal implications, they do need a quorum and the vote was improper. So it looks like this is going to court, which bodes well for  JoAnne Kloppenburg, a Dem (?) running for Supreme Court Justice, April 5th. She's running against the incumbent.  This may be a good test of whether there is truly enough electoral support for successful recalling of the eligible Republican senators. Ah, democracy.

Of course, this could all just be a trick to get the senate Democrats to come back to the state: so far it seems they're staying firm, somewhere in Chicago, knowing that if they return before this bill is signed into law they can get locked into the state capital and forced to vote. Ah, democracy.