Summary
Democrats on the lam Dubuque? Antioch? Rockford? Wisconsin Senate Democrats failed to show up Thursday to vote on the controversial bill to strip collective bargaining rights from public employees, causing irate Republicans to speculate they left the state. The Wisconsin State Patrol was ordered to search for the missing lawmakers and escort them back to the Senate chambers. Gov. Scott Walker demanded the Democrats return to cast their vote. Though the collective bargaining measure is expected to pass, the disappearing act delayed the vote while thousands of protesters descended on the Capitol grounds. "Their actions by leaving the state and hiding from voting are disrespectful to the hundreds of thousands of public employees who showed up to work today and the millions of taxpayers they represent," Walker said. Meanwhile, the Internet blew up with questions about where the missing Democrats could be. Media from Chicago and Milwaukee called the TH, asking whether anyone had spotted the group. They were eventually located in Rockford, Ill., but the rumors continued into Thursday evening that the troupe had taken off for another location.
On the same day Wisconsin Democrats fled the state, an Iowa Democrat drove to Madison to stand alongside thousands of protesters in the Capitol rotunda.See the full content of this document
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Local Officials Offer Their Take
Dubuque County Democrat Chairman Terry Stewart had to yell into his cellphone during a convesation with reporters while surrounded by the cacophonous crowd. He described signs reading: "Worker rights are human rights," "What's disgusting? Uni...
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