Tag: Scott Fitzgerald

Boy, Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald sure is a petty and spiteful man. Fresh off the heels of the “Wisconsin 14” returning to Wisconsin after their three week stand against Republican efforts led by Fitzgerald and Gov. Scott Walker to cripple Wisconsin’s public employee unions, Fitzgerald fired off an email…

What’s next for Wisconsin’s Republican State Senators now that they’ve voted to eviscerate collective bargaining rights for public employee unions? They’re going to Washington, D.C. to meet with lobbyists and raise money!

Here’s some video of the conference committee meeting hastily scheduled by Republicans in the legislature in order to ram through the draconian changes to collective bargaining for public employee unions: This is shameful, and it shows the lengths Republicans are willing to go in their effort to weaken/destroy public employee…

After convening a hastily scheduled conference committee, Republicans in the legislature were able to undo 50 years of collective bargaining rights for Wisconsin’s public employees, with Republicans in the State Senate voting 18-1 to approve gutting collective bargaining rights for public employees after those provisions were split from Gov. Scott…

Listen for yourself: Ed. Note: It just occurred to me that I forgot to note this recording was taken at the Esquire Club in Madison.

For all the talk from Republican Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald and Governor Scott Walker about how the 14 State Senate Democrats are falling apart at the seams, it certainly seems that the Republican caucus in the State Senate is falling apart with each passing day. For example, here’s what…

i have not always agreed with Senator Miller and think he has made a couple colossal mistakes, but I am very proud through this whole budget despair bill fiasco to call him my Senator. Senator Millers office delivered the following letter to Governor Walker and Senate Majority Leader Fitzgerald: March…

We’re seriously bordering on becoming a police state… Senate Republicans Thursday ordered the arrest of their 14 Democratic colleagues, who fled the state two weeks ago to avoid a vote on Gov. Scott Walker’s controversial budget repair bill. It’s unclear whether the resolution to force the senators back to the…

This is epic! Senate Republicans last week passed a rule suspending the direct-deposit of absent legislators’ pay, requiring them to show up in person at the Capitol — in effect, to provide a quorum — in order to receive a check. However, as WisPolitics reports, Erpenbach found a workaround: He…