(Cullen) Democrat wants to eliminate fleeing as option to hold up votes

[cal04]

http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/118016999.html

A Democratic state senator wants to make it impossible for senators in the future to block legislative action by leaving the state.

Sen. Tim Cullen of Janesville was one of the 14 Democrats in the Senate who sought unsuccessfully to block Gov. Scott Walker's budget repair law by driving to Illinois on Feb. 17 and only returning last week. That law drew massive protests by repealing most collective bargaining by public employees in the state.

"The main point I want to make is that what we did we had every legal right to do. It was an extraordinary step against an extraordinary bill," Cullen said. But "the institution of the Senate is not well-served going forward by having this particular avenue available."

Cullen said his proposal for a constitutional amendment would simply eliminate the requirement currently in the state constitution that three-fifths of state senators be present for the body to vote on certain fiscal bills, including those that contain spending items.

[Arkana]

1. Can someone recall this chucklefuck too?

[WhiteTara]

6. he needs to be! n/t

[Boswell]

2. now if he was proposing an alternative

a way to stop future "extraordinary" bills he might have a point

[Angry Dragon]

3. So he is in favor of the walker takeover

idiot

[liberalmuse]

4. I always have to avert my gaze...

whenever I see a Democrat down on his knees to service the Republicans for no damn good reason whatsoever. How embarrassing.

[myrna minx]

5. He was the weakest link of the 14 and he didn't want to leave in the first place.

Now he's rewarding Walker's thuggery. Why not have Fitzgerald declare it illegal, since he's apparently knighted himself.

[gratuitous]

7. Extraordinary situations call for extraordinary responses, Tim

If you can guarantee that the Republicans will quit their bugfuck insane legislating, yeah, go ahead and change the state constitution. But when an entire majority caucus lines up behind a bugfuck insane proposal, you've got to have some way of reining them in. So as long as you're thinking of re-writing the state constitution, Tim, put in an amendment banning bugfuck insane legislation.

[RedCloud]

8. And they had an ugly deeply hidden agenda.

[Dawson Leery]

9. Recall him too.

[Critters2]

10. Sounds like he's trying to do away with the quorum requirement, or am I reading this wrong?nt

I honestly don't get his point. :shrug: