{"id":9847,"date":"2011-05-26T15:40:39","date_gmt":"2011-05-26T19:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=9847"},"modified":"2011-05-26T15:40:39","modified_gmt":"2011-05-26T19:40:39","slug":"wisconsin-dems-still-wasting-time-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/9847\/wisconsin-dems-still-wasting-time-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin Dems Still Wasting Time, Money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2011\/05\/26\/wisconsin-anti-union-bill_n_867473.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Huffington Post<\/em><\/a> reports that even though a Wisconsin state judge invalidated Republican Governor Scott Walker\u2019s bill to remove collective bargaining from public union members, nothing is stopping Republican lawmakers from re-passing the stalled legislation.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Democrats widely expect Republicans in the state legislature to simply attempt to re-pass the measure as law, and this time, the Democratic state senators won&#8217;t be leaving the state to slow down the process.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s nothing that we can do,&#8221; said state Sen. Jim Holperin (D-Conover). &#8220;Republicans have the votes to do this, and if they choose to do it, they can and they will.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My guess is that if given the chance to follow normal procedures, Republicans will easily re-pass Governor Walker\u2019s bill.\u00a0 When that happens, Wisconsin\u2019s Democrats should stop wasting taxpayers\u2019 time and money on frivolous lawsuits created by irresponsible lawmakers fleeing the democratic process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Huffington Post reports that even though a Wisconsin state judge invalidated Republican Governor Scott Walker\u2019s bill to remove collective bargaining from public union members, nothing is stopping Republican lawmakers from re-passing the stalled legislation. Democrats widely expect Republicans in the state legislature to simply attempt to re-pass the measure as law, and this time, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2727,646,2283,761,334,2412,1500],"class_list":["post-9847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-collective-barganining","tag-democratic-party","tag-frivolous-lawsuit","tag-public-employee-unions","tag-republican-party","tag-scott-walker","tag-wisconsin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9847"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9851,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9847\/revisions\/9851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}