Post by Cambist on Feb 18, 2011 13:32:24 GMT -5
Shouts out to Aces and King and all my Wisconsin fam. Cheeseville is ground zero of the 2012 Help Democrats get their Balls Back Campaign for President!
Cops now pursuing missing Wisconsin Dems, senator alleges
By Greg Sargent
Wisconsin state police have visited the home of at least one of the missing Wisconsin state senators in an apparent effort to force him to return to the capitol to vote on the proposal to roll back public employees' bargaining rights, a Democratic senator alleged to me in an interview.
State Senator Chris Larson, one of the Democrats who is remaining in Illinois to stall the vote on Governor Scott Walker's measure, tells me that another Dem Senator -- who he declined to name -- returned home late yesterday to try to get some sleep. That Senator's staff reported to Larson that police visited his home, but that the Senator had managed to slip away before cops could apprehend him.
"Police were sent over to his house, but he was able to get out of there," Larson told me.
Larson said that Republican leaders in the State Senate -- who couldn't immediately be reached for comment -- would be the ones to ask the State Police to make such a visit. He said he had also received unconfirmed reports from other Democrats that police were visiting other homes, too.
Most of the Senators remain in Illinios, Larson added, meaning they may be out of reach of cops. But if Republicans have now unleashed an effort to get the cops to haul these Dems back to the capitol, it will only up the tension and urgency of this standoff.
More when I learn it.
Cops now pursuing missing Wisconsin Dems, senator alleges
By Greg Sargent
Wisconsin state police have visited the home of at least one of the missing Wisconsin state senators in an apparent effort to force him to return to the capitol to vote on the proposal to roll back public employees' bargaining rights, a Democratic senator alleged to me in an interview.
State Senator Chris Larson, one of the Democrats who is remaining in Illinois to stall the vote on Governor Scott Walker's measure, tells me that another Dem Senator -- who he declined to name -- returned home late yesterday to try to get some sleep. That Senator's staff reported to Larson that police visited his home, but that the Senator had managed to slip away before cops could apprehend him.
"Police were sent over to his house, but he was able to get out of there," Larson told me.
Larson said that Republican leaders in the State Senate -- who couldn't immediately be reached for comment -- would be the ones to ask the State Police to make such a visit. He said he had also received unconfirmed reports from other Democrats that police were visiting other homes, too.
Most of the Senators remain in Illinios, Larson added, meaning they may be out of reach of cops. But if Republicans have now unleashed an effort to get the cops to haul these Dems back to the capitol, it will only up the tension and urgency of this standoff.
More when I learn it.
