define('DISALLOW_FILE_EDIT', true); define('DISALLOW_FILE_MODS', true); Comments on: The Morning Scramble – The People versus The Public Unions edition https://norunnyeggs.com/2011/02/the-morning-scramble-the-people-versus-the-public-unions-edition/ The repository of one hard-boiled egg from the south suburbs of Milwaukee, Wisconsin (and the occassional guest-blogger). The ramblings within may or may not offend, shock and awe you, but they are what I (or my guest-bloggers) think. Sun, 20 Feb 2011 18:00:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 By: Video: Wisconsin Union Fiction vs. Fact | The Lonely Conservative https://norunnyeggs.com/2011/02/the-morning-scramble-the-people-versus-the-public-unions-edition/comment-page-1/#comment-39260 Sun, 20 Feb 2011 18:00:04 +0000 https://norunnyeggs.com/?p=10403#comment-39260 […] are skirting the democratic process, nothing could be further from the truth. It was the Democrats who called a special lame duck session after last year’s election to ram through legislation favoring the unions. They did this […]

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By: Some Recent Historical Context for Wisconsin Union Dispute | POWIP https://norunnyeggs.com/2011/02/the-morning-scramble-the-people-versus-the-public-unions-edition/comment-page-1/#comment-39257 Sun, 20 Feb 2011 13:19:11 +0000 https://norunnyeggs.com/?p=10403#comment-39257 […] In December of last year, after Wisconsin Democrats had taken their shellacking in the polls, but be…. A lame-duck special session is a rarity in Wisconsin state politics, having been called only once before in the past 40 years. Those very same Democratic Senators who have fled Wisconsin so as to prevent a voting quorum were part of this scheme, and the idea was to take advantage of the absence of any Republican State Senators who had left on vacation to ram through the new deals with 17 different unions, including language that would effectively eliminate oversight of state regulatory agencies and give them full control of workplace policies without having to get government permission. […]

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