Our colleagues at PolitiFact Wisconsin have been busier than, uh, badgers tracking what-all is getting said in the legislative standoff over a push by Republicans there to reduce unions’ collective-bargaining rights. Democratic state senators have kept GOP Gov. Scott Walker’s proposal from floor consideration by leaving the state, depriving the Senate of the quorum needed to take up the measure. Their departure to Illinois hearkens to similar episodes in Texas. In 2003 Democratic legislators twice left the state in failed attempts to stop majority Republicans from redrawing the state’s U.S. House districts. More than a dozen Truth-O-Meter articles have pinned ... >>More
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