CREW: Governor Scott Walker: Regarding Dispatching of Wisconsin State Patrol: 4/7/11 - CREW Records (Part 8)

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From: Evenson, Tom - GOV

Sent: Friday, February 25, 2011 8:47 AM
To: GOV DL All Staff
Subject: Morning News Update for 02.25.11
Office of Governor Scott Walker - .Moming News Update for Februarv 25,2011
News Summary:
• Assembly passes budget repair bill on a 51-17vote, GOP Reps, Tranel, Nerison, Kaufert, and Spanbauer
voted no, Most Dems did not cast their votes,
• Senator Fred Risser says that neither he nor his 13 colleagues plan on coming back today, But they will
caucus later this morning,
• Newspapers editorialize over the prank phone call,
• City of Sheboygan says Governor's budget repair bill could cost them $1.4m of federal transit aid - forcing
them to end trans, services,
Gover-norScott Walker - Television February 24
Appleton Post-Crescent
Clalre Leader-Telegram
Green Bay Press
Manitowoc Herald Times Reporter

Journal Sentinel
IvtJ.",aUIK<:C
Racme Journal Times

Sheboygan Press
Stevens Point .Iour-nal
Nation/World
Oh,To
Wall Street Journal
How can fringe benefits cost nearly as much as a worker's salary? Answer: collective bargaining,
Wis. to end debate,

Associated Press - Bloomberg
Wisconsin Democrats in the state Assembly agreed to a deal in the pre-dawn hours Thursday to limit debate and
reach a vote, perhaps by midday, on a bill taking away public workers' collective bargaining rights. Republican
leadership in the Senate meanwhile dispatched police officers to the homes of some of the 14 Democratic
lawmakers who have been on the run for a week to avoid voting on the proposal, to compel them to return.
Wall,e!"" Bill a Pass

by Mark Niquette - Bloomberg
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker exempted police and firefighters from a bill limiting collective bargaining to
avoid jeopardizing public safety, a spokesman said, A similar bill in Ohio includes the groups.
Leadership Shlilldis Wisconsin G')Vt,rn,or

The State Column
3/28/2011
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Senate President Russell Pearce and members of the Republican Leadership in the Arizona State Senate today
announced they are in full support of Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker and his efforts to institute common sense
reforms to benefit programs for Wisconsin state workers.
Wisconsin Unions
Wall Street Journal
Loud protests by Wisconsin public employee unions against a budget reform proposal from new Governor Scott
Walker have drawn considerable national network news attention since Thursday, the day Democratic state
senators fled the state in a last-ditch gambit to prevent the bill from becoming law.
Gov.
Washington Post
HAVING SEEN close to home the influence that public-sector unions can have on politics and budgets, we
understand where Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) is corning
U....io n Power for Thee, But Not for Me

Wall Street Journal
The union horde is spreading, from Madison to Indianapolis to a state capital near you. And yet the Democratic
and union bigwigs engineering the outrage haven't directed their angry multitudes at what is arguably the most
"hostile workplace" in the nation: Washington, D.C.
Revolt
Wall Street Journal
Governors get ajump on corporate tax reform.
Milwaukee
approved in earlv-mor-ntng vote

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Madison - After a bitter, 61-hour debate that was the longest in living memory, the sleep-starved state Assembly
voted in just secouds early Friday to approve a watershed proposal repealing most union bargaining rights held by
public workers.
Those Qther parts

Editorial- Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The public has focused, with good reason, on collective bargaining restrictions in Gov. Scott Walker's budget-
repair bill. But other items deserve more scrutiny, and to get it, they should be stripped from the bill and debated
separately.
'Scott! "~iV'.U
Editorial - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
And then Walker signed offwith a breezy, "Thanks a million!" Which, unfortunately, may have been the most
revealing statement of all.
Video' See Happened

Today's TMJ4
MADISON - To Republicau Assembly members, it was time. From Democrats to their counterparts, it was
"Shame! Shame! Shame! Shame!"
School districts prepare layoffs ahead

"I'm completely nervous," Cudahy School District Superintendent Jim Heiden said. "Walking into buildings and
seeing teachers break into tears when they see you - I mean, that's the level of anxiety that's out there."
Semite gives preliminary approv,,1 to photo ID hill

The 19 Republican members ofthe Senate on Thursday gave preliminary approval to a state law requiring a photo
identification to vote, an issue with a deep partisan split.
Madison
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Risser says 14 Dem back today'

Wisconsin State Journal
Risser said the senators, who fled last week in an attempt to stop Gov. Scott Walker's controversial budget repair
bill from passing, will be meeting later Friday morning.
Wisconsin Reporter
MADISON - A marathon session from the Wisconsin Assembly lasting more than sixty hours ended in a sprint
of "shame."
Schultz compromise still best

Editorial - Wisconsin State Journal
Are Gov. Scott Walker and the Wisconsin Legislature capable of a "thoughtful approach" to ending their budget
stalemate?
Madison School District orenarinu hlII'<I"edls of teacher

The Madison School District and others across the state are scrambling to issue preliminary layoff notices to
teachers by Monday due to confusion over Gov. Scott Walker's budget repair bill and the delay of the state budget.
Lawmakers approve rule that Capitol

Lawmakers approved a rule change this week that clears the way for Capitol police to close down the statehouse at
6 p.m. on Saturday and end the biggest rally in recent memory. The only question now is whether Gov. Scott
Walker will ask the officers to enforce the rule. Cullen Werwie, the governor's spokesman, said Thursday the final
decision has not been made.
Koch vow to in Wis"or",in

The Capital Times
"With the Left trying to intimidate the Koch brothers to back off of their support for freedom and signaling to
others that this is what happens if you oppose the administration and its allies, we have no choice but to continue
to fight," says Richard Fink, the executive vice president of Koch Industries. "We will not step back at all."
Green Bay/Appleton
Budget bill colIld cost Sheboygan$1.4M transit

Sheboygan Press
Sheboygan's transit system could lose $1.4 million a year in federal funds should the state Legislature approve
Gov. Scott Walker's budget repair bill without any changes, which could put an end to the service because the city
couldn't afford to make up the difference, Mayor Bob Ryan said.
Health care costs at heart

Editorial- Appleton Post-Crescent
Gov. Scott Walker's budget repair bill has created tension between public and private sector workers. Everyone
can agree, however, on a core issue in the debate: Health care costs are way too high.
budget repair on
by Scott Bauer - AP - Green Bay Press-Gazette
MADISON -The state Assembly appeared at times to be close to voting on Gov. Scott Walker's budget repair bill
Thursday night after more than two days of filibustering.
Republicans outside Wi,sconsin soften tough talk on unions
Assembly away urnor; "'i"h'ts

Associated Press - Oshkosh Northwestern
3/28/2011
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NEENAH - The uproar caused by Gov. Scott Walker's plan to strip unionized public employees of many of their
bargaining powers has crossed the line of civility for state Rep. Dean Kaufert.
Gr'een Bay to
Green Bay Press-Gazette
A Green Bay alderman wants the City Council to support public employee unions by passing a resolution declaring
them "intrinsic to the Wisconsin tradition of innovative and progressive public service."

Area teachers and union members gathered at a few bridges in Green Bay and De Pere on Thursday to protest
Gov. Scott Walker's budget repair bill and request a "bridge to resolution."
La Crosse/Eau Claire
Walker says he'll Madison

La Crosse Tribune
6:30 p.m. update: MADISON, Wis. - Gov. Scott Walker says in a column that he'll "cooperate and communicate"
with Senate Democrats only if they return to Madison. Walker made the comments in a column he wrote on
Thursday.
shows Walker not about to budge

Editorial - La Crosse Tribune
Gov. Scott Walker did himself no favors when he fell for a prank phone call on Tuesday from an a blogger passing
himself off as conservative businessman David Koch.
Wausau/Rhinelander
Stevens Point mayor delivers to Madison

Stevens Point Journal
MADISON -- A resolution passed by the Stevens Point City Council on Wednesday made its way into the hands of
Madison legislators Thursday.
Nationwide Insurance to lay Qff 40 in Wausau

Wausau Daily Herald
Nationwide Insurance will lay off about one-third of its Wausau workforce as it shifts a local department to Ohio
in an effort to improve efficiency, a company spokeswoman said Thursday.
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Moore, Dorothy J - GOV
From: Evenson, Tom - GOV

Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2011 9:07 AM
Subject: Morning News Update 03.01.11
WEEKLY HEADLINE GOAL: GOVERNOR WALKER'S BUDGET LAYS FOUNDATION FOR

ECONOMIC GROWTH
Daily Headline Goal: Governor Walker Introdnces Biennial Budget
News Summary:
• Governor Walker will deliver his Budget Address to a Joint Session of the State Legislature at 4:00pm.
• Milwaukee city attorney calls Governor's budget repair bill "unconstitutional."
• MJS: Missing senators rely heavily on union campaign dollars.
Governor vv 'Ol"."" - Television Clips for February 28
Milwaukee J our-nat "''''' '"I'''

Oshkosh Northwestern
Racine Journal Times
Sheboygan Press
Nation/World
A Union Education
Editorial» Wall Street Journal
The raucous Wisconsin debate over collective bargaining may be ugly at times, but it has been worth it for the
splendid public education.
Why Koch Industr-ies Is Speaking

by Charles Koch - Wall Street Journal
For many years, I, my family and our company have contributed to a variety of intellectual and political causes
working to solve these problems. Because of our activism, we've been vilified by various groups. Despite this
criticism, we're determined to keep contributing and standing up for those politicians, like Wisconsiu Gov. Scott
Walker, who are taking these challenges seriously.
of 41 states wher-e Pl,lOHC wor-ker-s

USA Today
Wisconsin is one of 41 states where public employees earn higher average pay and benefits than private workers in
the same state, a USA TODAYanalysis finds. Still, the compensation of Wisconsin's government workers ranks
below the national average for non-federal public employees and has increased only slightly since 2000.
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nnt"i,,· labor pr-actices

Reuters
(Reuters) - The Wisconsin State Employees Union (WSEU) accused new Republican Gov. Scott Walker of unfair
labor practices for refusing to bargain in a complaint filed Monday with a state employment commission.
Protesters barred
Los Angeles Times
Authorities have barred protesters from entering the Capitol, a move aimed at ending a two-week sleep-in by
opponents of a bill that would strip most state employees of collective bargaining powers.
Vi",cm,,,hl, Flinlging Blame and U ' ' ' ' j ' ; Deadlines
New York Times
MADISON, Wis. - Time mayor may not be running out to make some crucial decisions in the Wisconsin fight
over labor unions and budgets. But the blame game is definitely coming to a boil.
wis,
Chicago Sun-Times
Union officials claim they will make concessions and pay more for health and retirement benefits if Gov. Scott
Walker only will abandon his drive to reform collective bargaining. They're selling a fairy tale.
Cov
Chicago Sun-Times
MADISON, Wis. - Gov. Scott Walker's office says the option of refinancing debt in order to save $165 million will
be lost if Senate Democrats do not return and pass the bill by Tuesday.
w.an,er Will Budget as

Bloomberg
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, whose proposal to curb collective bargaining for government workers spurred
protests across the U.S., plans to present a two-year budget that cuts local aid by more than $1 biJIion.
P",hlii~. Unions. A Bad Deal

Real Clear Politics
The violent imagery and uncivil rhetoric journalists have sought but rarely found at tea party rallies are in
evidence in the protests in Madison, Wis., against Gov. Scott Walker's efforts to trim the power of public employee
unions.
W;S"ol,s;n budget due to patch old one

CNN
Facing a flood of red ink and embroiled in an effort to curb the collective bargaining rights of most public workers,
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is scheduled to nnveil his new state budget on Tuesday.
got Big Morrey fr-orn Union

FoxNews
The 14 Wisconsin Democratic senators who fled to Illinois share more than just political sympathy with the public
employees and unions targeted by Gov. Scott Walker's budget-repair bill.
wrong messageon unions

Los Angeles Times
We may resent union perks, but they have had a valid role, and they should be a goal for more
workers rather than something to cut in hard times.
Wisconsin gover-nor to missing senators: Come or off 1,500

Christian Science Monitor
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) is ratcheting up the pressure on 14 Senate Democrats who fled the
state two weeks ago to avoid voting on a bill that critics call a deliberate attempt to kill many of the
state's public unions.
Milwaukee
3/28/2011
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the deep ClJJ~

Madison - Gov. Scott Walker will reveal on Tuesday the full cuts in state programs such as health care for the
poor and aid to local governments needed to balance the state's more than $3 billion budget deficit over the next
two years.
!V1i~~ing senatorsr"ly heavily on union campaign OU>"VI1'''

The 14 Wisconsin Democratic senators who fled to TIlinoisshare more than just political sympathy with the public
employees and unions targeted by Gov. Scott Walker's budget-repair bill.
Repair
Editorial- Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Gov. Scott Walker's budget-repair bill is flawed. We support the governor's aim to rein in labor costs but cannot
support this bill as written.
Milwaukee city attorney claims W"lk"r's bill i~ Imc'm~titutional

Milwaukee Biz Times
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's state budget repair bill would be unconstitutional because it would violate the
constitutional "home rule" that protects cities and villages from interference in local pensions by the state,
according to a legal opinion issued today by Milwaukee City Attorney Grant Langley.
Mclceynolds supports W"l1ler'~ burrget reoai..

"I encourage state senators to debate this bill and act upon it," he said. "Racine County taxpayers need this."
Regional transit authority next on GOP chopping block - RTA, KR.lVl 'W,mlrl
RACINE - The future of a Kenosha-Racine-Milwaukee commuter rail may be close to derailment.
Madison
Senate Democrats call on debt r-cstruetur-ina

Senate Democrats on Monday provided Gov. Scott Walker with options to avoid a deadline looming early this
week for restructuring the state's debt.
Constttutionallv questionabfee DOA

Capitol Police kept more than 1,000 protestors at bay Monday, locking down the statehouse and allowing only a
few dozen inside to meet with lawmakers.
Sen. Dale Schultz mum on for budget reuatr

DODGEVILLE - Sen. Dale Schultz may know how he will vote if the state Senate takes up Gov. Scott Walker's
budget repair bill Tuesday but he refused to let his intentions be known to the 450 people who jammed the
bleachers at Dodgeville High School Monday night.
A nr-caxuown
The Capital Times
Gov. Scott Walker's proposal to effectively end collective bargaining by public workers has sparked massive
protests and riveted the nation. But what else have state Republicans been up to?
Green Bay/Appleton
Hintz shouted, "You're f------ dead!" to Rep. Michelle Litjeus, ReOshkosh, and her fellow Assembly Republicans in
the chaos that followed the sudden vote on the bill, which passed although 28 representatives weren't in the
Assembly chamber to vote on it.
3/28/2011
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announcement
But when it comes to Republican Gov. Scott Walker's plans to fix the budget, Stephens, a clinical psychologist at
the Winnebago County Health Department, and Olson, a retired salesman, share little in common.
budget local gover-nments m-euare

With Gov. Scott Walker's budget address and his deadline to approve the budget repair bill without layoffs set for
today, some local governments are preparing for significant shared revenue cuts while others are putting a hold on
planning until details become more concrete.
is,,,!'.sin Gov. Scott out of Capitol

MADISON - Gov. Scott Walker today presents his vision for the state's fiscal picture to a joint legislative session
in the building where protesters have camped out for two weeks to voice their opposition to the governor's
proposal that would eliminate collective bargaining rights for most public employees.
La Crosse/Eau Claire
Senate Democrats InUSt:~Om~

La Crosse Tribune
State aid to local government and school districts will be cut by more than $1 billion in the budget proposal
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker will release today.
return soon
Chippewa Herald
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker called for runaway Democratic lawmakers to return to the state by Tuesday and vote
on his bill that would end most collective bargaining rights for public employees or else the state stood to lose out
on a refinancing plan that would save 1,500 employees their jobs.
Wausau/Rhinelander
Our Drop policy changes from budget

I Wausau Daily Herald
When Gov. Scott Walker gives his budget address this afternoon, it's not likely to be under the circumstances he
anticipated. With his budget repair bill still in limbo, the state's $137 million deficit for the 2009-2011 budget isn't
settled --let alone the $3.6 billion deficit facing us in 2011-2013.
Murricipafifies, schools likely targets of Gov. Scott .. In••,,,.

Wausau Daily Herald
The other shoe is about to drop.
Wisconsin Rapids Tribune

With Gov. Scott Walker's budget repair bill approved by the state Assembly and awaiting a vote in the Senate,
some local community leaders are making known their views about the plan.
sct
Associated Press - Wisconsin Rapids Tribune
MADISON -- Gov. Scott Walker's explosive proposal to take nearly all collective bargaining rights away from most
public workers represents just one piece of his vision for the state's future. Now he's ready to reveal the rest.
Superior/Duluth
Wisc{)D-sin Super-ior' to
Superior Telegram
For the second time in four days, Gov. Scott Walker traveled around the state today visiting the districts of the 14
Democratic senators who fled to Illinois to prevent a vote on his budget-repair bill.
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-- Protesters occupied the Capitol for the third straight night and thousands are Today's calendar
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repair bill. . BUdget Blog
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-- The national attention has drawn supporting words from Illinois Sen. Dick
Durbin and national AFL.clo President RiChard Trumka.
Trumka is due to address protesters at noon today.
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- Wis. union vote on hold after Democrats leave state, Senate
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adjourns, governor calls exodus a 'stunt' and expects holdouts to

return: 14 Senate Derris disappeared around midday, prior to scheduled
budqet repair debate. Sen. Erpenbach called from undisclosed
location, "The plan is to try and slow this down." Sen. Taylor tweet
said Derns were "doing the people's business." Walker called
disappearance "disrespectful."
http://www.msnbc.msn.comfidf41644074/nslus news-lifef?GT1 =43001
- Senate Oems hit the road to delay vote: After Senate Pres. Ellis
failed to raise quorum, Majority Leader Fitzgerald invoked "Call of
the House," sending law enforcement to bring home Senators. Fitzgerald unsure "how
far law enforcement can go in terms of bringing a Democratic Senator back ... not sure
if they would be under arrest or not," said Minority Leader Miller gave no forewarning.
Oem Sen. Erpenbach lists bill objections.
http://www.wrn.com/2011102/senate-dems-hit-the-road-to-delay-vote-audiof
- Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker: GOP won't be 'bullied': Walker on Fox

News on Oem exile: "I thlnklt's made the Republicans in the Assembly
and the Senate stronger. They're not going to be bullied." Teamster's Hoffa called
protests "inspiring." Obama said bill "seems like ... an assault on unions."
http:Uwww.politico.com/newslstoriesf0211149800.html
- Democrats flee Wisconsin to protest union curbs: Sen. Erpenbach to

WisPolitics: "We were left with no choice... , The question is when are
the Republicans going to sit down seriously with the other side on
this issue and try to work something out." Walker: "I am calling on
Senate Democrats to show up to work today." JFC co-chair Darling:
"It's not like we're choosing to do this. We are broke." UCal-Berkley
Prof. Shaiken comments.
http://www.chicagotribune.comlsns-rt-usreport-us-usa-wisctre71h07e-
20110218,0,5292272.story
- Wisconsin Democrats flee to Clock Tower to block anti-union bill .,.

Holperin and nine of his Democratic colleagues arrived at the Clock
Tower about 10:30 a.m. today. They left the hotel by 4 p.m.... fled to
Illinois because Wisconsin state police have no jurisdiction here,
Holperin said. Holperin: "Our intent is to simply delay a vote. I
think we've accomplished that and we've given the state of Wisconsin a
few additional days."
http://www.rrstar.comfcarouselfx43522562/Wisconsin-Democrats-flee-to-Rockford-to-
block-anti-union-bill
- Wisconsin senator in exile calls home amidst Madison protests:

Sen. Jauch phoned, "There are helicopters, reporters, and apparently
busloads of protesters to support us. I feel a lillie bit like O.J. .
Simpson.... We simply think that if God took seven days to create
heaven and earth, that maybe we can take a little time as well," will
return when Walker agrees to meet with them.
http://www.busjnessnorth.comfkuws.asp?RIO=3784
- [exiled Senate Minority Leader] Miller says Dems wlli talk this
. weekend .., "In Wisconsin we resolve problems through negotiation." ...
Democrats and public employees are not willing to concede the loss of
collective bargaining rights the governor included in his budget
repair bill."
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- Union battle echoes beyond Wisconsin: MTI Pres. Lipp, "We're

fighting for our very existence." Other states are watching
Wisconsin's bid to virtually break labor unions as a means of cutting
huge deficits. Unions in Wisconsin and beyond see this as a Waterloo
moment. Obama, Walker, AFSCME's Lindall, UW Prof. Dresang comment.
http://www.csmonitor.com/USAIPolitics/2011/0217/Union-battle-echoes-beyond- .
Wisconsin-We-re-fighting-for-our-very-existence
- [GOP US Rep.] Ryan equates Wisconsin protests to Egypt ... "He's

(Gov. Scott Walker) getting riots, it's like Cairo's moved to Madison
these days," Ryan said Thursday on MSNBC's "Morning Joe." ... "He's
basically saying I want you public workers to pay half of what our
. private sector counter parts are, and he's getting riots.".
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/20 11/02f17/ryan-eq uates-wisconsin-Rrotests-to-
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- [Speaker] Boehner wants OfA out of Wisconsin: statement lashed

Obama for "unleashing" Organizing for America in Wisconsin to pressure
Gov. Walker, "instead of providing similar leadership ... has chosen to .
attack leaders such as Gov. Walker, who are listening to the people
and confronting problems that have been neglected for years ... I urge
the president to order the DNC to suspend these tactics."
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Office of Governor Scott Walker - Morning News lTpdate for FebrnalY 18,2011
• - The Nation's eyes are on Wisconsin as Governor Walker stands firm, Dems flee, and students protest.
• Teachers holding "sick outs" across the state. MPS closed. 22 other districts closed or delayed.
• Watch the Governor's Fox & Friends interview this morning.
• Governor Walker - Headline on Drudge Report
Govel'nor Walker - Television Clips for Friday, Februat:y 18, 2011
Nation/World
Athens in Mad Town
Editorial» Wall Street Journal
Mr. Walker's very modest proposal would take away the ability of most government employees to collectively
bargain for benefits. They could still bargain for higher wages, but future wage increases would be capped at the
federal Consumer Price Index, unless otherwise specified by a voter referendum. The bill would also require union
members to contribute 5,8% ofsalary toward their pensions and chip in 12.6% of the cost of their health insurance
premiums,
Gov. Walker's Pretext

Editorial> The New York Times
I In a year when governors across the country are competing to show who's toughest, no matter what the
consequences, Gov, Scott Walker of Wisconsin stands out as the first to bring his State Capitol to a halt.
Democrats Missing, Wisconsin Vote on Cuts Is Delayed

New York Times
The fury among thousands of workers, students and union supporters rose to a boil on Thursday, as state
lawmakers prepared to vote on landmark legislation that would slash co11ective bargaining rights for public
workers. Protesters blocked a door to the Senate chambers. They sat down, body against body, filling a corridor.
They chanted "Freedom, democracy, unions!" in the stately gallery as the senators convened.
Union Fight Heats UQ

Wall Street Journal
Democratic lawmakers fled the state Thursday in an effort to torpedo a closely watched vote on what would be the
nation's first major overhaul of union laws in years, as government workers flooded the statehouse for a third day
seeking to block passage of the bill. -
Wifu..governor: GOP won't be 'bullied' by union bill protesters

The Hill- Washington, D.C.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) says his party has been emboldened by massive protests against his controversial
budget plan.
Wisconsin State Senator Mark Miller Calls Governor Scott Walker's Budget Tactics 'Insulting,'
Asks for 'Respect' -
ABCNews
That was the message the Wisconsin State Senate Minority Leader Mark Miller wanted to send to Gov. Scott
Walker after Miller and 13 fellow Democratic senators fled the state in order to avoid a budget vote that would
take away state employee's bargaining rights and increase health care costs and contributions to pensions.
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Public Worker Protests Spread From Wisconsin to Ohio (Update1)

Bloomberg
Feb. 18 (Bloomberg)'--In what union leaders say is becoming a national fight, protests against legislation to
restrict public employees' collective-bargainingrights spread from Wisconsin to Ohio.
Obama joins Wisconsin's budget battle, opposing Republican anti-union bill

Washington Post .
President Obama thrust himself and his political operation this week into Wisconsin's broiling budget battle,
mobilizing opposition Thursday to a Republican bill that would curb public-worker benefits while planning
similar action ill other state capitals.
Fleeing Wis. legislators nearly upstage Rockford event

Chicago Tribune
For a brief time Thursday, a Rockford hotel and water park took on a circus-like atmosphere as a band of runaway
Wiscollsin legislators milled about the lobby and parking lot, a news chopper hovered overhead and a TV reporter
chased after a leprechaun.
Milwaukee
The Dems' tantrum

Editorial - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Democrats in the state Senate threw a temper tantrum Thnrsday - essentially they took their ball and went home.
Illinois can't fetch Dems, lawyers say

The Wisconsin legislators on the lam cannot be touched by out-of-state police, according to veteran Wisconsin
lawyers.
Hundreds stage union-rights rally at UWM campus

Several hundred students and others showed up at a noontime rally Thursday on the University of Wisconsin-
Milwaukee campus to protest cuts in union bargaining rights contained in Gov. Scott Walker's budget repair bill.
I Faith leaders voice support for unions
When MilwaukeeArchbishop Jerome Listeckilent his voice to this week'slegislative debate over collective
bargaining by public employees, he was drawing on more than 100years of Catholic social teaching, which has
endorsed the role oflabor unions in creating ajust economy and society.
Milwaukee Public Schools closed for Friday due to high number of absentee calls from teachers
FOX6 - Milwaukee ' .
The state's largest school district has joined those that have canceled classes due to teacher shortages caused by
union protests at the state Capitol. .
Madison
Governor Scott Walker not backing down

tvisconsin Reporter . .
With more than a hundred union supporters protesting just ontside his office,Gov. Scott Walker on
Thnrsday announced he would not budge on eliminating most collective bargaining rights from public employees.
Protesters come from near and far for 'civics lesson in the flesh'
Ryan McGranahan and Tom Steger left their southwest Wisconsin homes early Thursday bound for the massive
protest in Madison against Gov. Scott Walker's proposal to limit collectivebargaining.
Senators' run to Illinois gets cheers from supporters, a blast from Walker
The Capitol Times .
The gambit by 14 Democratic state senators to leave the state Thursday instead ofbeing outvoted on a hugely
controversial budget bill has drawn national attention, cheers from supporters and a tongue-lashing from
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Republican Gov. Scott Walker.
Thursday's Senate walkout wasn't the first at the state Capitol

Wisconsin State Journal .
Thursday was not the first time Wisconsinlawmakers have walked offthe job to avoid a painful vote. But it was
one of the most dramatic.
Walker proposal could result in $7.1 million cut in federal aid to Madison Metro Transit
Gov. Scott Walker's collectivebargaining proposal could force the city of Madison to restructure Metro Transit or
lose $7.1mi11ion in federal trausit aid, about a sixth of the utility's $42-4 million budget for 2011, officialssaid.
Green Bay/Appleton
As public sector unites against Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker's union plan, private sector split
in Fox Valley
iI
For some private sector workers, Gov. Scott Walker's forceful approach with public workers unions isn't at al1 out
of line.
Senate Democrats wrong to leave state

Editorial-AppletonPost-Crescent
Today, we criticize the 14Senate Democrats for using the wrong means to a worthy end.
Wisconsi~ DemOcl'ats make a run for the border to protest Gov. Scott Walker budget bill
. State Democrats could not stand by and watch the Senate take up a bill aimed at stripping col1ective bargaining
rights from public employees, Assistant Senate Minority Leader Dave Hansen of Green Baysaid Thursday
evening.
Bill halted by Democrat retreat

Oshkosh Northwestern
Faced with a near-certain Republican victory that would end a half-century of collectivebargaining for public
I workers, Wisconsin Democrats retaliated with the only weapon they had left: They fled.
La Cl'Osse/Eau Claire
Senate stalemate: Democrats flce state to stall labor bill; Republicans plan to return today
La Crosse Tribune
Sen. Kathleen Vinehout said she and other Senate Democrats left the state Thursday in a last-ditch effort to derail
Gov. Scott Walker's controversial budget repair bill. Speakiug from an "undisclosed location," Vinehout said, "This
was the only choice we had to slow things down."
Protests sl!read to campus: UW-Lfacultyto l!roceed with union vote

La Crosse Tribune
UW-La Crosse employees said today they are willing to sacrifice to help balance the state budget but don't want to
lose their rights to negotiate as a group. "We don't want to take an unfair share of the bread," said Susan
Crutchfield, chairwoman of the English department. "But we won't take the crumbs from a table where we weren't
even given a seat. 11
County: reacts to move against state workers

La Crosse Tribune
Two top La Crosse County officialshad harsh words Thursday on the governor's bid to all but end collective
. bargaining for state workers: .
County workers rally against Walkel"l!lan

Chippewa Herald
Between 100 to 200 people, many of them Chippewa County employees, turned out for a rally Thursday afternoon
against Gov. Scott Walker's ~tate budget repair plan.
Protestors flood Capitol again, Den10cratic senators flee state

Pagc d of a
Hudson Star-Observer
Wisconsin senators might not be able to vote today after all on Gov. Scott Walker's budget measure which limits
public union bargaining powers. .
WausaujRhinelandel'
Lassa: 'We want to slow down' policy chan~
Stevens Poitn Journal
State Sen. Julie Lassa, who along with her fellow Democrats was not in attendance at the start of Thursday's
Senate session for Gov. Scott Walker's budget-repair bill, said she believes she is standing for the interests of
workers in Wisconsin.
Local Dems say they'll sUl!port recall for lawmakers voting yes on hudget bill
Wausau Daily Herald
Marathon County Democrats will support recall of'any local state lawmaker who votes for Gov.Scott Walker's
controversial budget bill, according to a release from Jeff Johnson, the organization's chairman,
Stevens Point students, teachers protest Gov. Walker's budget bill

As many as 100 to 150 students protested Gov. Scott Walker's budget bill in front of Stevens Point Area Senior
High this morning chanting these phrases in unison and holding signs supporting their teachers and workers'
rights.
Reaction to budget bill 'unique in Wisconsin history'

Gov. Scott Walker's proposal to strip public employees oftheir collective bargaining rights, and the social and
political unrest it has created, is like nothing longtime University ofWisconsin-Stevens Point political science
professor Ed Miller has ever seen.
, As UWSP students march. faculty and staff members weigh options for response
Students at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point joined peers from UWinstit1,ltions across the state in
protest Thursday, forgoing class and marching around the city to voice their opposition to Gov. Scott Walker's
budget repair bill.
Educators speak out'against Walker's budget bill

Marshfield Neius-Herald
Some Marshfield-area educators and students are rallying against Gov. Scott Walker's bill that would in part strip
. most public workers of almost all of their collective bargaining rights.
President Barack Obama sides with Wisconsin protesters

Marshjield News-Herald
President Barack Obama has weighed in on the side of Wisconsin public employees, as angry protestersin
Madison continued to vent over Gov. Scott Walker's plan to radically restrict collective bargaining rights.
Superior/Dnluth
Bill stalls as workers rally
Superior Telegram .
Senators in hiding and statewide protests capped a day of unrest caused by Gov. Walker's proposed budget repair
bill, which would end collective bargaining rights for most public employees.
Ristow, Nate - GOV
From: Schutt, Eric - GOV

Sent: Saturday, February 19, 201112:05 PM
To: Schrimpf, Chris - GOV; Gilkes, Keith - GOV; Werwie, Cullen J - GOV;
Murray, Ryan M - GOV
Subject: Re: Revised statement
I would add to return to Madison in last sentence. Also, add Senator Miller's name in
there somewhere
Original Message
From: Schrimpf, Chris - GOV
Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2011 12:02 PM
To: Scott, Kevin - DOA; Gilkes, Keith - GOVi Werwie, Cullen J - GOV; Schutt, Eric - GOVi
Murray, Ryan M - GOV
Subject: Revised statement
Revised draft statement. Edited to keep the focus on the Senate Dems leaving their jobs.
Senator.Erpenbach apd his fellow De~ocrats should come back to Wisconsin to do their jobs.
These are many of the same Senators who, two years ago! rammed through a billion dollar
tax hike in 24 hours with no pUblic input. The quickest way to resolve the current
situation is for the Democratic Senators to stop shirking their responsibilities and
debate the'bill in Madison. We continue to calIon them to come and do thei~ jobs.
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Ristow, Nate - GOV
From: GOV Press

Sent: Monday, February 21, 2011 1:50 PM
To: GOV Press
Subject: Timeline of Union & Senate Democrats BudgetRelated Events
February 21, 2011 .

For Immediate Release
Contact: Cullen Werwle, 608-267-7303
Timeline of Union & Senate Democrats Budget Related Events
Madison-Today Governor Walker's office released a time line of union and Senate Democrats' actions
related to balancing the budget.
2009
February 17-Governor Doyle introduces a budget repair bill that raises taxes by one billion dollars.
February 18-Senate Democrats ram the bill through the Legislature, without a public hearing.
(http://legis.wisconsin.gov/2009/data/SB66hst.html) .
2010
Campaign season-Governor campaigns on budget reform .. Unions send out flyers warning that
Walker might reform collective bargaining.
November 2-County Executive Scott Walker becomes the Governor-elect.
November 10-Governor-elect Walker asked Governor Doyle to suspend contract negotiations so their
fiscal impact could be considered in the context ofthe 2011-13 state budget,
November 29-Governor-elect Walker penned a letter to the lame duck legislature, asking them not to
take up state employee contracts. (attached)
December 7-Marty Beil, executive director of AFSCME calls Walker, "master of the plantation and
we're supposed to be his slaves."
(http://www.channeI3000.com/politics/26049415/detail.html)
December 10-The contract negotiations,which were not completed in the first 17 months of the
contract period, were suddenly finalized.
December 16-State employee contracts fail to pass the Legislature. Marty Beil, executive director of
AFSCME calls a Legislator "not a prostitute, a whore. W-H-O-R-E."
(http://host.madiso n.com/wsj/news/loca 1/govt-a nd-po Iitics/arti cI e_e836d c76-0862-11eO-a476-
001cc4c03286,html)
January 3-Governor Walker is inaugurated. Wisconsin faces a $137 million current fiscal year shortfall
and looming $3.6 billion structural budget deficit.
February ll-Before introducing budget repair bill, Governor Walker personally briefs Senator Miller
and Representative Barca on the bill. Governor Walker introduces budget repair bill.
February 15-The Joint Finance Committee takes 17 hours of public testimony on the budget repair
bill.
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February 16-The Joint Finance Committee passes the budget repair bill with changes to protect
workers rights.
February 17-Fourteen Senate Democrats flee Wisconsin to avoid debating, offering amendments or
casting a vote on the budget repair bill. They go to a Best Western in Illinois and continue to draw their
paycheck, total cost to taxpayers $1,915 for the day plus the cost of their benefits. (Legislators are paid
$49,943 per year. $49,943 divided by 365 days, times 14 State Senators = $1,915)
February is-Public employee unions claim to support having their members pay 5.8% a pension
contribution and 12.6% of the cost of health insurance coverage. Governor Walker states that when
local governments receive cuts to state aid they are going to need the tools contained in his proposal
to help balance their budget without layoffs or reductions in the delivery of cover government
services. Fourteen Senate Democrats remain in Illinois, take an additional $1,915 from taxpayers for
the day. Continue to receive taxpayer funded benefits.
February 19-Fourteen Senate Democrats continue their vacation in Illinois, take an additional $1,915
from taxpayers for the day. Continue to receive taxpayer funded benefits.
February 20~Fourteen Senate Democrats continue their vacation in Illinois, take an additional $1,915
from taxpayers for the day. Continue to receive taxpayer funded benefits.
from taxpayers for the day. Continue to receive taxpayer funded benefits. Senate Democrats begin to
fundraise.
(http://www.ssdc-wi.org/S5DC/Home.html)
Along with this timeline Governor Walker's spokesman, Cullen Werwie, released the following
statement:
I Senate Democrats need to come back to work the jobs that they are getting paid to do. 24 hours was
enough time for them to increase taxes by $1 billion dol/ars two years ago. Now with more than 17
hours of public testimony and a 5 day vacation to Illinois, Senate Democrats say they need more time.
The truth is at a time when Wisconsin is in a fiscal crisis, these individuals are on a taxpayer funded,
campaign fundraising vacation-avoiding debate and their duty to cast their vote on a proposal that is
100% directed at balancing our state's budget.
Instead of using Wisconsin's fiscal crisis to fill their campaign coffers, Senate Democrats should do their
job.
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Ristow, Nate· GOV

Sent: Monday, February 21, 2011 5:00 PM
SUbject: (WisPolitics) MON PM Update -- 21 February 2011
WisPolitics PM Update
21 February 2011
Exclusively for WisPolitics Platinum Subscribers
From WisPo/itics.com .,.
-- Both sides in the standoff over the guv's austerity measures dug in even further
today, as Senate Oems and Republlcans said it was up to the other side to break the
impasse. Meanwhile, protests continued on a wintry day but with fewer people than
Saturday's huge crowd.
At Senate Org today, Dem Dave Hansen of Green Bay asked Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald
via speaker phone when he would be ready to begin negotiations with "the workers of
Wisconsin." That drew a sharp rebuke.
Hansen and Senate Minority Leader Mark Miller expressed their opposition to the collective
bargaining changes the guv included in his budget repair bill.
Miller thanked Republicans for including them in the Org meeting and said Gov. Scott Walker
put Senate Republicans "in a real box." He said labor leaders have offered to accept the higher
payments for their benefits in exchange for keeping their collective bargaining rights.
As Hansen later started talking again, Fitzgerald, R-Juneau, shouted him down.
"You're not in negotiations," Fitzgerald said. "Senator, there is no negotiation. You need to get
back to the floor of the Senate and offer your ideas on final passage."
-- The Senate is due back tomorrow to vote on non-fiscal bills and matters, all of them
fairly routine. .
Atop the calendar: Gov. Scott Walker's appointment of Eloise Anderson to head the
Department of Children and Families.
Plus, the Senate calendar lists a resolution commending the Packers and Senate Bill 9,
relating to dairy and livestock farm investment credits. .
The Assembly is due back to vote on the budget repair bill.

-- Assembly Minority Leader Peter Barca said he expects his caucus will introduce more
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. than 100 amendments during tomorrow's floor session.
He said Assembly Oems will be ready to go when the session begins at 11 a.m., but they will
need to go to caucus from time to time.
He also today said Walker should be willing to look at alternatives to "end this chaos."
"Show some leadership," Barca said. "We really believe it's time to end this type of impasse."
-- Department of Administration Secretary Mike Huebsch says for the state to realize
debt restructuring savings in the budget repair bill, the legislation must be passed by .
Friday.
"Since the state is required to make debt service payments on March 15, the bill must be
enacted by Feb. 25th to allow time to sell the refinancing bonds," Huebsch wrote in a memo to
lawmakers.
The bill authorizes the restructuring of principal debt payments in fiscal year 2010-11 on state
general obligation bonds, thereby reducing debt service costs by $165 million. The state is
facing, a $137 million deficit this fiscal year.
-- Sen. Jon Erpenbach, D-Middleton, said the guv could get his refinancing if he would
just drop his demands for collective bargaining changes. .
Erpenbach also rejected calls from the guv to come back to the Capitol to work on the repair
bill.
"I'm still trying to get over the idea that the governor wants us to come back and debate
something that he says it's not negotiable," Erpenbach said.
Erpenbach also continued to argue the guv has what he needs to balance the current budget
with the concessions the unions have offered to accept on their benefits if he'll drop collective
bargaining changes. .
. "He's got a balanced budget," Erpenbach said. "He needs to get rid of the language on
collective bargaining. That's something that the state can rally around."
Walker scheduled a 5 p.m. news conference today.
Look for an advisory later this afternoon on Walker's comments.
Follow developments in the Budget Blog:

htlp:llbudgel.wispolilics.coml
-- GOP state Sens. Randy Hopper and Dale Schultz have been two ofthose targeted by
protesters who want three Republicans to turn against the guv's bill.
But Hopper said the past week has only boosted his support of the proposal.
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"Before the teachers walked out, I thought that this was something that should get done
because of the fiscal component," he said. "After they did, I'm just so resolute that it needs to
get done."
Meanwhile, Schultz's chief of staff said the Richland Center Republican is looking for ways to
improve the. bill.
"He continues to work with his Republican colleagues to find a way to protect collective
bargaining," Todd Allbaugh said.
Allbaugh said Schultz remains uncommitted on how he'll vote for the bill.
-- The Wisconsin Medical Society arid UW Health have issued statements today
condemning the alleged distribution of medical excuses to protesters at the Capitol
over the weekend. .
The Medical Society said it "does not condone these actions under any circumstances," and
thatthe Wisconsin Medical Examining Board has received reports on the activity.
UW Health said news and social media reports implicate "a few" of its 1,300 physicians, and
that the UW School of Medicine and Public Health and UW Medical Foundation have launched
an investigation. The group 'said the investigation and its results will be considered personnel
matters not open to public discussion.
Meanwhile, GOP state Sen. Pam Galloway, a surgeon from Wausau, said she would be
I encouraging the state Medical Examining Board to undertake its own investigation.
"To hand out an excuse without properly evaluating a patient is both unethical and fraudulent,"
Galloway said. "I am confident that reports of this will trigger a review of the medical licenses of
those found to be responsible for engaging in this behavior."
-- Although threats of recall efforts have been thrown around on both sides of the
collective bargaining debate, just one group has filed paperwork to recall a state
lawmaker so far.
A GAB spokesman said today that Sen. Jim Halperin, D-Conover, is the only lawmaker who's
currently the subject of a recall effort. A group targeting the 12th District senator announced it
would file with the GAB on Friday as Holperin and his Oem colleagues boycott the budget
repair bill vote outside the state.
The group now has 60 days to gather enough signatures to support recalling Holperin, which
.amounts to 25 percent of last fall's gubernatorial vote total in the 12th SO.
Interestingly, it would be the second recall testing Halperin. As a Oem state rep, he beat back
a 1990 recall organized by opponents of Chippewa Indian treaty rights.
A group has also threatened to file papers to recall Sen. Bob Wirch, D-Pleasant Prairie.
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.- The State Senate Democratic Committee is the No.1 hot candidate or committee at
Act Blue.
The outfit, an on-line clearinghouse for Oem donations, listed more than 11,470 donations
totaling more than $294,000 as of 4:45 p.m. this afternoon. It does not specify the time frame
in which the donations were made, but an Act Blue spokesman estimated all but about
$30,000 of the donations has come in the last seven days.
See the page:

http://www.actblue.com/entitylfundraisersJ16403
-- State Rep. Gordon Hintz issued a statement this afternoon saying he's willing to take
responsibility for his actions after he was cited last month forvioJating an Appleton·
sexual misconduct ordinance.
On-line records defined Hintz's citation as "touching/offering to touch sexual parts.".
According to the Oshkosh Northwestern, Hint was one of six people issued a citation Feb. 10
in conjunction with an ongoing investigation of Heavenly Touch Massage Parlor in Appleton.
Hintz, D-Oshkosh, didn't discuss details ofthe incident in his statement.
"My concerri right now is that my personal situation is distracting from the much more
important issue facing our state," Hintz said. "We have tens of thousands of working people at
the Capitol every day and that must remain our focus. I will continue to do my job and stand up
for Wisconsin's working families."
See the statement:

.- Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett called on business leaders, politicians and citizens to
join in a number of new measures to spark city development.
,
In his annual State of the City address, Barrett announced several initiatives. aimed at
stimulating the economy. Among them, plans to stimulate Milwaukee's "newly-recognized
creative assets" by provldinq "creative capital to the creative industries of our region."
Barrett also announced a new initiative to bolster neighborhoods, the Block Stabilization
Program, aimed at improving the appearance of city blocks where two or more homes have
been foreclosed on. .
Barrett then asked members of Milwaukee's business community to help rejuvenate the
downtrodden business district of downtown's West Wisconsin Ave.
Barrett also continued push for high-speed rail, calling on Gov. Scott Walker to help support an
upgrade of the Milwaukee-Chicago Hiawatha Amtrak line, which Barrett considers "a valuable
and necessary economic lifeline, connecting two large regional economies, arts and culture
and residents to work."
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Though Barrett didn't directly comment on the week-long protests in Madison, he did express a
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deep concern over Walker's budget and its implications for Milwaukee.
"With a high degree of certainty, I can unfortunately tell you that the cuts coming from Madison
are going to disproportionally impact the city of Milwaukee," Barrett said. "The fact that we are
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home to 73 percent of the region's poor won't matter." .
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Referencing the ongoing debate in Madison over Walker's budget repair bill, Barrett
acknowledged the need for shared sacrifice, saying that public employees need to pay more
for their benefits. In this case, however, Barrett said he believes, "sacrifices are not always
equally shared." I
"All employees, including police and fire, are going to have to be part of the solution. No one
should be given a pass based on who they supported during a political campaign," Barrett
said.
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Walker's plan exempts police, fire, the State Patrol and state inspectors from the austerity
measures.
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Read Barrett's prepared remarks:
http://www.wispolitics.com/1006/MilwSOC FINAL022111.pdf I
From WisOpinion.com ... I
r -- In new posts at WisOpinion, independent Rep. Bob Ziegelbauer says the gUY'S budget
repair bill will save jobs. I
Other posts debate Walker's bill.
See more: I
http://wisopinion.com/
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From WisBusiness.com ...
-. Organizers of the annual Business Day in Madison on Wednesday are making some
adjustments due to the protests.
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"In light of these developments, we have scheduled a legislative leader panel in lieu of Capitol
visits. After consideration, we felt this would be a more productive, fruitful use of your time. I
Legislators most likely wHlnot be available and entry into the Capitol building may be difficult.
"Also, you are encouraged to park at the Alliant Energy Center. Parking is free and the I
Wisconsin Motor Carriers Association and Badger Coaches are providing shuttle service to
and from the Monona Terrace."
See more on Business Day:

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http://www.wmc.org/display.cfm?IO:;1 027
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Appleton Post-Crescent: Fitzgerald: Vote on budget repair bill won't happen until Democrats
return
http://www.postcrescent.com/article/2011 0221/APC01 01/302220026/Fitzgerald-Vote"on-
bUdget-repair-bill-won-t-happen-until-Democrats-return
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worries-vote-cou Id-be-taken
Appleton Post-Crescent: Lawmaker accused of sexual misconduct

http://www.postcrescent.com/article/2011 0221/APC01 0 1/302220018/Lawmaker-accused-of-
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Channel 3000: Key part of Walker's budget plan faces deadline

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WISN: Thousands rally in cold, snow outside Capitol

http://www.wisn.com/news/26941379/detail.html
Wisconsin State Journal: Jesse Jackson to return to Madison Tuesday

http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/ed ucalion/local schools/article~b7 c68f42-3dfe-11 eO-
aca5-001 cc4c03286.html
Wisconsin State Journal: UW Health investigates doctors who wrote sick notes for protesters
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http://host.madison.com/wsj/news//ocal/health med .fit/article 7d742504-3df2-11eO-9fOc-

001cc4c03286.html .
Wisconsin State Journal: Fledgling faculty unions would dissolve under Walker's bill
http://host.madison.com/wsj/newsJ/ocal/education/on campus/article 13e057fO-3dea-11eO-
b15c-001 cc4c002eO.html
Capital Times: Regent calls on Martin to oppose split from UW System

http://host.madison.com/ct/newsllocal/education/campus connection/article a30e06ba-3ddc-
11eO-be04-001cc4c002eO.html
CNN: Wisconsin gov blasts unions' waste

http://www.cnn.com/2011/POLITICS/02/21/wisconsin.budget/index.html
CNN: White House watches Libya for meaningful reform .

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, --10 a.m. -- Senate Committee on Labor, Public Safety, and Urban Affairs executive session
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•• The state Senate issued a call of the house for a second straight day this morning as
Oems again failed to show up on the floor to debate the guv's budget repair bill.
Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald said he has asked the guv to send a state trooper to
the home of Senate Minority Leader Mark Miller, D-Monona, to see if he was there.
Fitzgerald, R-Juneau, acknowledged the trooper would not place Miller under arrest if he was
found at home, but hoped the move would force the Dem to realize the seriousness of the
situation and return to the Senate.
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BREAKING NEWS: The Assembly quickly engrossed the bUdget repair bill on a voice vote
shortly after Republicans took the floor, prompting some Oem lawmakers to rush the floor and
demand to be heard. Follow developments in the Budget Blog: hltp:llbudget.wispolitics.coml
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QUOTES OF THE WEEK
You can't defend democracy when you're hiding in another state.

- Gov. Scott Walker on Senate Dems, proclaiming he's confident he and Republicans are on the
right track.
This isn't anything that we do lightly at all. This isn't a prank. This isn't a joke. This is Democrats
standing together saying slow down.
- Sen. Jon Erpenbach, D-Waunakee, on the Dem boycott of the state Senate vote. See more in
the BUdget Blog: b1tt2://budget. wispolitics.com/
That's not democracy. That's not what this chamber is about.

- Senate MajoJity Leader Scott Fitzgerald, R-Juneau.
Some of what I've heard coming out of Wisconsin, where they're just making it harderfor public
employees to collectively bargain generally, seems like more of an assault on unions.
- President Barack Obama during an interview with Milwaukee TV station this week. Some
liberals, however, knocked Obama for riot getting involved more.
There are helicopters, reporters, and apparently bus loads of protesters to support us. I feel' a
little bit like O.J. Simpson.
- Sen. Bob Jauch, D-Poplar, phoning home from the road. Jauch said the 14 Dem senators
would return from their "historical" jaunt when Walker agreed to meet with them, adding: "We
simply think that if God took seven days to create heaven and earth, that maybe we can take a
little time as well." http://www.businessnorth.com/kuws.asp?RID=3784
They can't do those things unless they show up for work. The people of this state pay us to
show up for our jobs.
- Walker, saying he'd be willing to talk to Dems, but only if they came back to work.
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This is the hardest vote I've had to take, and I'm afraid the next budget is going to be even
harder. '
- Sen. Luther Olsen, R-Ripon, on the Joint Finance Committee's parly-Iine approval of the I
budget repair bill.
This is not about protecting our pay and our benefits. It is about protecting our rightto I
collectively bargain.
- WEAC President Mary Bell calling on Wisconsinites to "come to Madison" in suppott of
teachers and public employees. Many schools were forced to close on Thursday and Friday
because of teacher absences.
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What the kids are learning today is what you have to do in America to stand up, so we don't
have dictators like they have in Egypt. ,
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- John Matthews of Madison Teachers Inc. on Wednesday, the first of three days Madison
schools closed due to teacher absences. Hear the interview with WTMJ-AM II
http:/.fwww.620wtmjcom/podcastsfwisconsinsaflernoonnews/116361039.html
If changes are proposed that establish UW-Madison as a separate, self-contained institution

with its own governance board separate from the Board of Regents, we would return to a two-
tiered system the state abandoned 40 years ago for good reasons.
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- UW System President Kevin Reilly and Regents Chuck Pruitt and Mike Spector in a letter
asking Walker not to split the flagship Madison campus off from the rest of the UW System. See
the letter: http://wispolitics.com/10061110216 UW Walker Letter.pdf
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The one-size-fits-all does not work, will not work.
- UW-Madison Chancellor Biddy Marlin saying that while all UW schools need flexibility, she
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wants to see UW-Madison become a new pUblic authority in order to better absorb a state
budget hit.
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I would use the word devastating.
- MPS Board President Michael Bonds on forlhcoming cuts to public education in Walker's two-
year budget plan. I
We knew this was going to be a lot of work, coming from zero and not having a voter base,
- Milwaukee philanthropist Chris Abele after edging out former Oem state Sen. Jim Sullivan in
the Milwaukee County executive primary Tuesday.
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It's going to be a lot about people being able to deliver on what you talk about.
- State Rep. Jeff Stone, R-Greendale. See more in the WisPo/itics Erection Blog:
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http://elections.wispomics.com/
We're going to show that you can face your challenges by working with your employees, I
working with your workers cooperatively in order to find solution to the challenge that we see as
the opposite to the Walker way, which is waging war on employees.
- State Rep. Joe Parisi, D-Madison, on his win in the primary to replace Kathleen Felk as Dane
County executive.
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My sense ofthis is that the reason that I pulled through is because people are concerned about
their economic conditions. They're looking for someone that has some experience with a budget
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- Dane Co. Supervisor Eileen Btuskewitz, who'll face Parisi in the general election.
I want to talk about some of the problems facing the judiciary, the role that I can play and other )1
members of the court can play in addressing those issues. I know that my opponent is going to
make me the issue. I think that (the primary) vote suggests that will be an ill-advised strategy.
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- Supreme Court Justice David Prosser on his primary victory.
People are fed up with negative, nasty politicking in judicial races and they're fed up with
outside special interests telling us how to elect our judges.
- Assistant AG JoAnne Kloppenburg, who'll face Prosser on April 5.
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Dave Prosser: The co'nservative justice says he was a little apprehensive heading into the
primary with heavily Oem Dane and Milwaukee counties both featuring contested primaries for
county exec. Turns out, he had nothing to-worry about. Prosser cruises to a first-place finish
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with 55 percent of the vote, 30 points better than second place finisher JoAnne Kloppenburg.
Considering the strong performance, insiders now wonder how hard liberals will go after him.
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, The left believes Prosser has his vulnerabilities, and insiders on both sides say liberals' best bet
will be to tear the incumbent down rather than trading shots with him over judicial philosophies.
Some say Kloppenburg could give Prosser a run with her credentials as an assistant AG. Still,
conservatives are already showing signs they're going to target her as anti-business and anti-
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property rights over various cases she's taken up during her time at DOJ. At this point, most
give Prosser a good shot at winning re-election, and some Oems admit it will be an uphill battle.
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Jeff Stone: Insiders say the GOP state rep is by no means a lock to win the Milwaukee County
exec's race just because he came in first in a five-way primary. But his 43 percent total exceeds
expectations and shows he's in good shape, say insiders who debate how well wealthy I
philanthropist Chris Abele, now formally endorsed by Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, will be
able to coalesce the Oem vote by April. Former Oem state Sen. Jim Sullivan fell just short of
Abele even though he didn't spend anywhere near what the philanthropist poured into the race, I
and some say that means trouble for Abele. Critics question whether a rich person who makes
so much money he doesn't pay taxes can connect with the grassroots. But others argue Abele
will do his due diligence between now and the primary and has the money to cultivate the I
correct image. Meanwhile, insiders debate how the ongoing protests in the Capitol will play in
this race and others around the state this spring. One Republican notes the dirty little secret of
Milwaukee County politics is conservatives have done just fine in April elections, even if they I
get Wiped out every November. Turnout is lower, and Scott Walker's wins show there's a path to
Victory. Still, this week's events may jazz up the Oem union base that might be looking for an
outlet to show its displeasure with Walker and Republicans in general. . I
Joe Parisi: The Oem state lawmaker and former county clerk finishes first in a crowded primary
for Dane County exec with 26 percent of the vote. While his number isn't that noteworthy,'
insiders argue the showing by conservative Dane County Supv. Eileen Bruskewitz is. In a six-
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exactly a number that's going to strike any fear in Parisi, insiders say. Add in the number of
public employees in Dane County who are suddenly feeling under attack, and experts wonder
how Bruskewitz can grow her numbers to make up for the Oems who will file in behind Parisi. In
addition, there's a contested Madison mayoral contest that should drive up turnout in the heavily
Oem city, giving the Oem candidate an even bigger advantage.
Brad Courfney: The loyal Scott Walker supporter is in line to re-take his old job as chair of the
state GOP. Courtney had the bad timing to take over the party in September 2006, right as
Republicans were aboutto experience their first tidal wave. Courtney, who was elected to fill out
the term of Rick Graber, didn't seek a full term in 2007. Some Republicans say Courtney didn't
seem to particularly enjoy the job the first time around, and fund raising was not his strong point.
But Courtney is strong with the party's grassroots and tight with the guv. Former 1st Vice Chair
Bill Johnson is expected to become Courtney's finance director and is expected by some to
carry the load on that front. Add in Wisconsin's growing national profile in GOP circles, and
raising money shouldn't be a problem, say his fans. They say Courtney can use his talents to
continue strengthening the party's grassroots network.
Mixed
Unions; State unions prove they can still turn out a pretty good protest. Tens of thousands jam
the Capitol and surrounding streets over the course of the week, occupying the Capitol and
putting on a very loud -- but largely peaceful -- series of protests in opposition to WC)lker and
Republicans. Observers note the union-supporting protests dwarf the Tea Party rallies of the
previous election cycle and get attention from national media. During the first few days, even
Republicans credited the union employees for being respectful and polite despite their anger.
and passion. Some take offense to the protests at the homes of lawmakers and the guv,
believing that goes too far, however. The situation became more tense late in the week as more
people jammed the Capitol and created gridlock. Nine people were arrested Thursday, the first
arrests of the week, and RepUblicans complain that union employees tried drowning out the
brief Senate floor period by chanting over speakers. Unionized teachers went from compromise
, to activism within days, caliing for teachers to leave the classroom, come to Madison, and stop
a bill that's only a week old today. That resulted in many school closings, which irritated many
parents who had to scurry for child care, and opened the door for conservatives to slam them
for walking out on their students. Still, insiders say the entire exercise could be good for unions
down the road if they can survive and keep members engaged. During one late-night pep rally,
state Sen. Bob JaUCh declares this is the "rebirth of the Progressive movement." But insiders
say it could get worse before it gets better, expecting "right to work" legislation affecting private-
sector unions to follow. While unions still playa significant role in Wisconsin elections, their
numbers have been dwindling for years. It all comes on the heels of high-profile concessions
unions have made to employers like Harley-Davidson, Kohler and Mercury Marine, showihg the
unions no longer have the same power. And public employee unions could see their political
power diminish in years to come thanks to some of the provisions Walker has proposed. While
many assume national union and liberal money will fill the gap for the next elections, the current
bill -- and GOP measures to come -- will likely slowly weaken the unions in the long run, some
say.
Scott Walker: Insiders on both sides give the guv this: He said he would be bold, and he's
living up to that promise. It's also made him a hero with the national conservative set. The
question for some, though, is whether he's taken too much of a political risk too early in his term
with his plan to strip nearly all collective bargaining rights from public employees at the state
and localleve!. This week's massive protests already have Oems openly talking up a recall after
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his first year is done. Fans say this is Walker's "PATCO moment," a reference to Ronald
Reagan's showdown with air traffic controllers, adding it boosts his national profile as one of the I
nation's most aggressive, conservative governors. But national attention also puts a target on
him and Wisconsin, likely bringing in millions of liberal money into the state in advance of
President Obama's re-election bid. Also, even some friend lies worry Walker's "running ahead of II
his blockers" and could be going too far, too fast; before building necessary public support. But
look what happened to Scott McCallum when he tried to rein in local spending, add Republicans
promoting the-quicker-the-better approach. Insiders say any time the focus on the legislation
has been about public employee pay, pensions and health care, Walker wins the battle for
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public opinion in 'a landslide. But when the debate focuses on collective bargaining rights, things
get a bit dicey for him. Some wonder if this will be for Republicans what health care and .
stimulus votes were for House Derns, If nothing else, say election watchers, it guarantees some I
difficult re-elections for GOP lawmakers with a heavy union or public employee presence in
their district -- ala Randy Hopper of Fond du Lac -- and fires up the left with recall threats. Some
suggest Walker could have smothered the early opposition by meeting with union heads first
and then introducing his bill once they refused to compromise. But Walker says there was no
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reason to meet with the unions because there was nothing to compromise about with the state
as broke as it is. Besides, Walker's proposal -- as radical as unions say it is -- falls short of what
he wanted to do originally. Sen. Mike Ellis says Walker originally approached GOP leaders with I
a proposal to eliminate public employee unions altogether but was told that would never fly in
the Senate. The Senate Derns' decision to flee the state throws a wild card into the mix with
some arguing it helped fan the flames and others arguing it actually took the heat off Walker
and the details of his proposal. But insiders say more heat will be on the way if predictions of
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big Walker cuts to school and municipal aid come true Tuesday.
Senate Dems: They fail to show Thursday when it comes time for Senate debate on the Walker
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repair bill, providing added drama to Capitol proceedings and denying the guv a quick victory.
I Their flighttoJllinois gets them plenty of media attention to their slow-down-the-bdl approach.
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I But insiders wonder about the long-term consequences if the gambit goes too far. Some
observers see attack ads against Dems next year that say, "It's 10 a.m. Do you know where
your state senator is?" But Derns like being on the side of the worker and against a new guv
they paint as a right-winger in a hurry to take away rights. As of Friday, they were still
boycotting, and some wondered if the tactics would boomerang back against them. Senate
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Minority Leader Scott Fitzgerald takes a series of shots at Dems for their behavior, foretelling
difficult relations between the two sides in the coming months. I
Pedro Colon: Following his appointment to a Milwaukee Co. court seat by former Dem Gov.
Jim Doyle, the former Oem lawmaker locked up a series of high-profile endorsements --
including some conservative jurists. But he only narrowly wins the primary with just 36 percent I
of the vote, leaVing him much work to do against Glendale Municipal JUdge Christopher
Lipscomb. Colon has been around for a while and has plenty of connections around the county
. so some believe he has the tools he needs to regroup. But others say Lipscomb will be no
pushover with a brother who serves on the Milwaukee County Board and political connections
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Dave Cieslewicz: Mayor Dave is no dead man walking, insiders say. But it is never a good
thing for a two-term incumbent to finish second in a primary race to an old opponent. Some I
insiders marvel at the nine lives of former Madison Mayor Paul Soglin and the way he was able
to cobble together enough support to edge Cieslewicz ever so slightly, exceeding expectations.
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Cieslewicz has failed to "own" the job even after eight years in office, some argue, and his high-
profile battle over issues like the redevelopment of the Edgewater Hotel have created his share
of enemies. Still, with the protests that flooded the Capitol, some say the race could take any
number oftums as public employees look to channel their anger into the April election. Soglin,
some speculate, benefited from the protests that hearken back to Saglin's Vietnam-era entry
into politics. Cieslewicz countered with a post-primary call for an emergency council vote to
extend key union agreements to the end of next year. A council vote ensures that members of
the city's labor unions can continue to receive current pension and health benefits -- no matter
what happens with Walker's budget repair bill.
UW System: The guv's budget may begin the unraveling of the UW System, a prospect that is
alarming System leaders. UW-Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin has been lobbying Walker for
months -- even before the election -- to give her campus flexibility through a new public
authority. And signs indicated that Walker may grant her wish. Martin's stance is at odds with
UW System leaders, who sent Walker a letter, asking him to keep the flagship campus under
their purview. There's also tension created by the fear of big tuition increases that could result
from Walker's budget plan, with GOP Assembly Education Chair Steve Nass sounding off
against tuition spikes. Nass is on record proposing a cap of 4 percent on tuition and fees, and
his spokesman says if spinning off UW-Madison from the system includes the ability to raise
tuition through the roof, Nass will oppose it. Martin downplays the tuition angle, saying
efficiencies and increased financial aid can keep tuition affordable.
C,APITOL CHAOS SLOWS REPAIR BILL
The state Senate groul)d to a halt for a second straight day as Dems continued to boycott the
Capitol, prompting Assembly Republicans to push ahead with a vote in their chamber.
They have the votes to pass Gov. Scott Walker's controversial bUdget repair bill, formally
announced just a week ago. And they have the necessary quorum if Dems decided to walk out.
But Democrats have been in caucus since a morning fight, hearing from the Legislative Fiscal
Bureau, mulling amendments, and, in the view of Republicans, delaying. '
Assembly Minority Leader Peter Barca, D-Kenosha, and Assembly Speaker Jeff Fitzgerald, R-
Horicon, had a brief meeting in the speaker's office before going to caucus. It appeared not to
go well, with Barca exitinq the office saying,"You're not goin'g to trample on our minority rights."
Fitzgeraldreplled, "You're not going to caucus for 18 hours."
Senate Majority Leader Scott Suder announced the chamber would meet at 5 p.m., but Oems
said they would not be ready.
Meanwhile, the other actors in this extraordinary Capitol drama played their roles.
-- Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald brought in his members, but the 14 Senate Oems
remained missing. The Senate was only able to give Walker an extension on delivery of his
budget -- from Tuesday until March 1.
-- Walker started off the day on the national news, with CBS, and continued a round of media
interviews.
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-- Thousands of union supporters and opponents converged on the Capitol Square for the fifth
straight day. Some observers thought it was the biggest day yet. Ralliers heard from.AFL-CIO
head Rich Trumka and Jesse Jackson and saw Russ Feingold leading 'firefighters. Both sides
. also braced for a big Saturday, when the Tea Party rally is scheduled for noon.
-- And Wisconsin State Employee Unions chief Marty Beil said unions were willing to meet
Walker halfvvay. '
"We are prepared to implement the financial concessions proposed to bring our state budget
into balance, because for us, public service is not about money," Beil said. "We'll meet the
governor halfway. We will not be denied our right to collectively bargain."
-- And national reporting placed Wisconsin as ground zero in the debate over workers" rights.
Follow the developments as they happen in the WisPolitics.com BUdget Blog:

http://budget.wispolitics.comJ
WALKER'S BUDGET TO BE DELAYED, BUT MORE BIG CHANGES EXPECTED
Gov. Scott Walker is getting more time to deliver his budget. But observers say they believe big
changes are already in place.
The Legislature moved today to extend the deadline by one week for Walker to deliver his
2011-13 budget, given that his budget repair bill was still tied up. The guv, who called a 5 p.m.
news conference today, hasn't said why he needed the delay. But observers say it's likely that
he needs the savings his budget repair bill would deliver to make the two-year budget work.
Still, insiders say there are signs of what may be corning in the document.
-- Education groups have been warning this week that the guv will cut education aid by $90'0
million for the biennium and ratchet down the per pupil spending limit by $500 per kid.
The $300 million Walker expects to save through the austerity measures he's proposed of state
workers for the biennium and a $900 million cut to school aids would take care of one-third of
what his administration says is a $3.6 billion budget deficit.
Some have also suggested big changes could be on tap for the Department of PUblic
Instruction. Republicans have long viewed the agency as an arm of the WEAC because the
candidate with the union's backing often wins the office.
-- The guv's budget repair bill creates the opportunity for his administration to drastically
overhaul the medical assistance program, prompting fears by some Dems that he'll seek to gut
the programs.
But a source that follows the MA program argued it's unlikely the guv will seek to eliminate the
state's safety net. That's because anyone losing MA coverage would still have to be treated by
hospitals but without any payment for that care. Instead, those with health insurance would end
up picking up the tab through higher rates.
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Instead, the source believed the administration will instead look for ways for those on MA
programs to pick up a bigger share of their coverage costs and to review eligibility tomake sure
only those eligible for the programs are accepted and that those who remain on them are still
eligible. Some Republicans have grumbled that Gov. Jim Doyle's administration relaxed
eligibility tests so much that it allowed people into the program who weren't eligible.
The source also pointed out a significant chunk of the Medicaid shortfall includes new GPR
requested by the Department of Health Services. Some savings could be found in paring back
that additional money.
- Walker has made clear that part of the reason he's proposed such dramatic changes for state
and local public employees is to give governments the flexibility they need to deal with coming
cuts in state aid,
Some have taken that as a sure sign that shared revenue will be pared back. Some bUdget
watchers say the real hit would likely be in the second year of the biennium because local
governments are already counting on money from the first year of the biennium for their
budgets.
- UW-Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin's public support for splitting off the System's flagship
campus into a new public authority is a sign to some that it's done deal the change will be in the
budget bill despite objections from System officials.
There's talk Walker may try something similar with UWcPlalteville with one GOP source
suggesting he may spin it off iAto an independent campus and tie the move for the engineering-
focused school to job creation.
- There also remains the question for some on how truly big the budget deficit is.
Rep. Mark Paean, a former co-chair of the JFC, testified before the committee this week that
the figure is based on millions and millions in new agency requests -- amounting to about a 62
percent increase over the current spending level. He said agencies are never funded at the full
level they request.
Plus, he said, the state is expected to see an increase of $1.5 billion in revenues in the coming
biennium. '
"The $3.6 billion is not real," he said. "The crisis is definitely not as it's been described."
BUCYRUS CEO SULLIVAN NOT RULING OUT POLITICAL BID
.Some Republicans have batted around Tim Sullivan's name as possibly their next Ron
Johnson.
And the Bucyrus International lnc; CEO says he isn't closing the door to any options once he
leaves his post later this year.
Caterpillar has purchased the South Milwaukee manufacturer of heavy mining equipment, and
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Sullivan said today his services will no longer be needed once the sale is closed, standard
practice in an acquisition such as this. He expects to leave the company in the next several
months.
"Now that it's known that I'm not going to be continuing on here after closing, I've got no
shortage of suggestions about What I should be doing," Sullivan said. "Certainly, politics has
been one of those suggestions. I've got a lot of people calling me and asking if I would be
willing to get engaged and involved."
Along with his departure will come a hefty payout, and one thing some Republicans would love
in a candidate against Oem U.S. Sen. Herb Kohl next year is someone who could self-finance.
Johnson proved last year how formidable a wealthy candidate could be as he took out Oem
Sen. Russ Feingold.
Still,.oems have argLied that it would be difficult for any self-financed candidate to get an upper
edge onKohl considering the personal wealth of the Milwaukee Bucks owner and the penchant
he has shown in past elections to spend it freely. He recently put $1 million into his campaign
fund, a sign to many that he's ready to run again.
Sullivan said Kohl declaring his re-election bid would playa role in any decision he makes.
He also said he's not a member of either party.
According to the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign database, Sullivan gave $1,000 each to
Scott Walker and Tom Barrett in last year's guv's race. Sullivan also pointed out he has worked
with both men as well as former Dem Gov. Jim Doyle.
"1 view myself as more of an independent than anything else right now," Sullivan said.
VOTERS SPLIT ON SCHOOL REFERENDUMS
As thousands of teachers descended on Madison this week, primary voters split on a handful of
school referendums -- with a much larger slate of spending measures due in April's spring
general election.
On Tuesday, voters in three districts rejected $11.5 million in additional school spending,
including the largest referendum on the spring primary ballot, a $9.4 million measure in
Spooner.
A$1.2 million referendum in Independence was also rejected, while voters in the Princeton
School District split on their two referendums. A $900,000 measure failed, while a $150,000
measure was approved.
Voters also backed referendums in Onalaska ($4.2 million), Bruce (two measures totaling $1.75
million), Melrose-Mindoro ($1.28 million) and Stockbridge ($600,000). Just shy of $8 million in
addition school spending was approved.
In April, voters in 19 districts will consider more than $238 million in additional school spending.
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More than half of that total will be on the ballot iii Racine, where three referendums totaling
$127.5 million will go before voters.
Other large spending measures in the spring election will take place in River Falls ($38.9
million), Medford ($10.6 million) and New Glarus ($10.1 million in two referendums).
See more on this week's results and upcoming referendums:

http://www2.dpi.state.wi.us/sfsref/ref Home.aspx
MINORITY LEADERS SAY REPAIR BILL JUST THE BEGINNING
While Gov. Scott Walker's budget repair bill has caused a firestorm, Senate Minority Leader
Mark Miller and Assembly Minority Leader Peter Barca say they're more concerned about
what's coming after.
"Most people recognize that public ernployees are just the beginrting," said Miller, of Monona, at
a WisPolitics luncheon on Tuesday. "This is an assault on workers throughout the state."
The next step beyond austerity measures for public employee unions could be making
Wisconsin a right-to-work state -- something GOP lawmakers actively talked about in
December.
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"They control the majority, they control the governorship, some would argue that they control
the Supreme Court," Miller acknowledged..
Of more immediate concern, however, is next week's two-year state budget plan. Miller's
Assembly counterpart, Minority Leader Peter Barca of Kenosha, told the luncheon that
Tuesday's budget address from Walker would contain "the deepest cuts in public education this
state has ever seen." .
"I know some of the key Republican leaders have warned their superintendents. They've told us
what to expect," Barca said. "For those of you that believe that education is a cornerstone of the
growth of our state and makes a difference, I'd be terrified if I were you."
Miller said that local municipalities would likely share the same fate through shared revenue
cuts in the budget, and both lawmakers said those provisions would disproportionately affect
rural communities.
"They'll (end) up having to cut back on the fundamental services to their communities," Miller
said.
And both leaders said that kind of pain isn't even necessary. Not only has the state not reached
the fiscal threshold to trigger a budget repair bill, but they argued that next fiscal year's budget
deficit isn't nearly as bad as Republicans have made it out to be.
"We faced twice as big of a deficit, and this isn't what we chose to do," Barca said. "It's a matter
of priorities, it's a matter of what do you value."
Barca said the Walker administration's projection of a $3.6 billion shortfall in the next biennium
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is made up partly of $1.6 billion in increased agency requests. In addition to not granting "hardly
any of that," Barca said he'd continue with cuts to most areas of state government and
furloughs of state employees.
"I think that's a preferable measure to what the governor's proposing, and what the governor's
proposing, again, is remaking 50 years of labor history," Barca said ..
Both leaders also cautioned Republicans as they move forward following the budget repair bill.
Miller remarked that feelings of having government intrude on individual rights sparked the Tea
Party movement in the last cycle.
"There's no government larger than that government that takes away rights of people," Barca
added. "I think that this is a powder keg for the Republican Party."
Listen to the luncheon:

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Wi.sPolitics.com interview: DATCP SECRETARY BEN BRANCEL
When Ben Brancel was DATCP iO-plus years ago, former Gov. Tommy Thompson kept him
busy with new initiatives.
This time around, Brancel, 60, has a new boss in Gov. Scott Walker. Burdened with a multi-
billion-dollar state budget deficit, the former Assembly speaker says he'll be trimming rather
than starting anew.
"The budget challenges will cause us to take a deeper look at the structure of the agency," he
recently told WisBusiness.com. "How many people do we have working in given areas? Is there
a need for re-energizing in some areas, move people from one focus to another?"
Brancel said he doesn't plan to abandon any programs but promised to scrutinize DATCP
operations closely.
"I'm going to become more aggressive in that regard this time around," he said. "The deputy I
had in the past was more externally focused. So with the support of Deputy Jeff Lyon, we will
have a chance to evaluate energy and effort in different areas of the agency."
Asked to compare his two bosses, Brancel said Thompson "had a heart-felt feel for people of
different backgrounds and what the agency could initiate that would be of benefit to them."
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Walker, however, is "very focused on structurally correcting bUdgets and making sure that we
serve the public for the purpose we were created, that we align our fees to our responsibilities·
and that we make sure that what we are engaged in provides the services that are most
necessary." ,
Brancel, a fifth-generation farmer, said that while much has changed in the past 10 years, he
can hit the ground running because he's familiar with DATCP's basic responsibilities and the
structure of the agency.
"Coming in the second time helps you in that you understand what the agency is all about," he
said. Those core duties include food safety, environmental stewardship, animal health
oversight and consumer protection, he noted.
"Consumer protection is not a sidelight," he said. If consumers believe they have been wronged
by a business, he said his agency will continue to conduct "honest, open and aggressive
evaluations of the circumstances. We take that as a serious responsibility."
See more next week at WisBusiness.com.
WEEKAHEAD
Monday: Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett delivers his annual State of the City address.
-- 8 a.m.: Milwaukee Job Corps Center, 6665 N. 60th St., Milwaukee
Tuesday: Gov. Scott Walker delivers his 2011-2013 state budget address to a joint convention
of the Legislature outside the Capitol.
-- 1:30 p.m.: Vita Plus, Madison Distribution Center, 3019 Progress Road, Madison
Wednesday: The Assembly Committee on Rural Economic Development and Rural Affairs will
vote on a proposal to authorize new enterprise zones in rural areas.
-- 9 a.m.: 225 Northwest, State Capitol
Wednesday: The Natural Resources Board will meet via teleconference, in part to approve a
Stewardship grant to Friends of the Fox.
-- 10 a.m.: GEF 2, Room G09, 101 S. Webster St., Madison
Wednesday: The state Assembly has scheduled a floor session.

-- 11 a.m.: Assembly Chamber, State Capitol
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- Rep. Robin Vos on budget repair bill

- Rep. Robin Vos Q&A part 1
- Rep. Robin Vos Q&A part 2
- Gov. Scott Walker press conference on budget repair bill
- Union leaders press conference on Gov. Scott Walker's budget repair bill
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POLITICAL TV
(Check local listings for times in your area)
"UpFront with Mike Gousha" is a statewide commercial TV news magazine show airing
Sundays around the state. This week's show features interviews with lawmakers on both sides
of the aisle about the controversial budget repair bill and the protests it's spawned, as well as
ABC News Political Director AMY WALKER on the national appeal of the rallies.
*See viewing times in state markets here: http://www.wisn.com/uf;lfront/ *Also view the show
online each Monday at WisPolitics.com
Wisconsin Public, TV's "Here and Now" airs at 7 p.m. Fridays. Guests include WEAC President
MARY BELL on the impact of the budget repair bill on Wisconsin's teachers, and Administration
Secretary MIKE HUEBSCH on the forecast for the upcoming state budget.
"Sunday Insight With Charlie Sykes" airs at 10 a.m. Sunday on WfMJ-4 in Milwaukee.
I "For the Record" airs Sunday at 10 a.m. on WISC-TV in Madison.
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The Wisconsin Supreme Court has reinstated the law license of CHARLES GLYNN, who made
headlines in 1989 and 1990 for his role in a Wisconsin statehouse lobbying scandal. He was
accused of taking money from a lobbyist for personal use while serving as a legislative aide to
then-Milwaukee Democratic Sen. BARBARA ULlCHNY. Glynn lost his law license in 1999 after
the Court found he bilked thousands of dollars out of three clients whose estates he oversaw. In
its reinstatement decision, the Court noted he has remained sober for 10 years after seeking
help for alcoholism and pointed to his positive work since his suspension wIth the Milwaukee
Child Welfare Bureau, St. Charles Youth and Family Services, the Wisconsin Athletic Club and
in establishing the Focus Program in Dane County for youthful offenders. Read the decision:
http://www,wicourts,gov/sc/opinion/DisplayDocument.pdf?content=pdf&seqNo=60079
The Wisconsin Farm Bureau Federation has hired KAREN GEFVERT as director of
government relations. Gefvert most recently worked in the quality assurance department at
Daybreak Foods Inc. of Lake Mills. Read the announcement:
http://www.wfbf.com/archivejlhtmArchive/showPage.aspx?page=15822.htm&id=15822
Dr. ANTHONY M. SCIASCI was elected president of the Wisconsin Dental Association
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Foundation at the group's 53rd annual meeting. See details: http://wispolitics.com/index.iml?

Article=226947
UW-Steven's Point is honoring former Defense Secretary and Wisconsin U.S. Rep. MELVIN
LAIRD with an honorary doctor of humane letters degree. See details:
ANDREW KEOGH, retired campus executive officer and dean for UW-MarshfieldlWood County,.
has been named interim campus executive officer and dean at the UW-Fox Valley. He replaces
JAMES PERRY, who retired last week. .
Sen. JON ERPENBACH, D-Middleton, conservative blogger and journalist DAVID BLASKA,
UW-Madison political science professor DAVID CANON, UW-Madison history professor JOHN
SHARPLESS, Wisconsin State Journal editorial page editor SCOTT MILFRED and Common
Cause in Wisconsin executive director JAY HECK are slated to discuss election reform at 6:30
p.m. Monday at the UW-Memorial Union in Madison. UW-Madison political science professor
Barry Burden will moderate. See details: http://www.commoncausewisconsin.org/2011/02/ccwi-
reform-event-at-uw-madison-on.html
Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce hosts its annual Business Day in Madison Wednesday.
FOX News' STUART VARNEY will deliver the keynote address..Members will hear from U.S.
Rep. PAUL RYAN and Gov. SCOTT WALKER. See details: http://www.wmc.org/display.cfm?
10=1027
MICHAEL SHELLENBERGER and TED NORDHAUS of the Breakthrough Institute are

presenting a free public 'lecture on "post-partisan power," a plan that calls for $25 billion in
federal funding to boost energy advance while calling on the Left to stop pushing for carbon
caps and the Right to support federal investment. The event is scheduled for 7 p.rn. Thursday at
the Fluno Center, 601 University Ave., Madison. See details: http://www.energy.wisc.edul?
p=3521
Scheduled presenters at the AAAC quarterly legislative breakfast include Sen. LENA TAYLOR,
Milwaukee County Supv. JOHNNY THOMAS and Milwaukee Ald. ASHANTl HAMILTON. See
details: http://www.wispolitics.com/index.iml?Article=226950
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morning. Click here for the online calendar: http://www.wispolitics.comlindex.lml?Content=22
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LOBBYIST WATCH
(from the state Government Accountability Board)
Authorization tolobby
Organization employing lobbyist Lobbyist naine Granted Withdrawn
Columbia-St. Marys Inc . Hoven, Timothy 1/19/2011 . 21ll/2011
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WisconsinCounty Police Association Zelenkova, RalUie2/17/20l1

WisconsinEducationAssociationCouncil Boyer, Amy 2/1712011
WisconsinEducationAssociationCouncil Engel, Andrew 2/17/2011
WisconsinEducation AssociationCouncil Osbome,Patrick 2/17/2011
WisconsinSociety ofRadiologic Blumenfeld, 2/17/2011
Technologists Michael
Wisconsin State Council of Carpenters Reihl, Mark 2/17/2011
AmericanFederationfor Children Fonfara, Thomas 2116/2011
American Federationfor Children Seitz, Robert 2/16/2011
Boldt Construction Stenger, Scott 2/16/2011
CentmyLink (formerlyCenturyTel Service Boyer, Amy 2/16/2011
GroupLLC)
CenturyLink(formerly CentmyTel Service Engel, Andrew 2/16/2011
GroupLLC)
CenturyLink(formerlyCenturyTel Service Fassbender, .2/16/2011
GroupLLC) RobertI
Americash Loans of WI, LLC Partenfelder- 2/15/2011
Moede, Peggy
Miron Construction Greer, Jim 2/15/2011
Miron Construction Morby, Joshua 2/15/2011
Time Warner Cable Flynn, Celeste 2/15/2011
Wisconsin Bio IndustryAlliance Morby, Joshua 2115/2011
WisconsinBio IndustryAlliance Welch, Robert 2115/2011
Wisconsin Community Papers Kilgore, Kathleen2115/2011
Wisconsin Community Papers Swandby, JanetR2115/2011
Wisconsin Early ChildhoodAssociation Inc Schmidt,Ruth 2/15/2011
ARAMARK Correctional Services,LLC Holman, Mark 2/14/2011
CommunityHealth PartnershipInc Blumenfeld, 2/14/2011
Michael
SoutheastDental Associates Schreiber, Martin 2/14/2011
Spaulding ClinicalResearch, LLC Julius, Buddy 211412011
American Resort DevelopmentAssociation Carey,Ray 2/1112011
American Resort DevelopmentAssociation Childress, Jason 2/1112011
American Resort DevelopmentAssociation Walby, Kathleen 211112011
Brown County Citizensfor Responsible Wind Kussow, Michelle21111201l
Energy, Inc.
Brown County Citizensfor Responsible Wind Scholz, Brandon 2/1112011
Energy, Inc.
Wisconsin Automobile & Truck Dealers Hubbalu,Gregory2f1112011
Association Inc
Wisconsin Automobile & Truck Dealers Tyre, Scott 2/1112011
Association Inc
WisconsinAutomobile & Truck Dealers Wilson, A.J. 211112011
. Association Inc
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Association Inc
Wisconsin Library Association Strand,Lisa 2/11/2011
Wisconsin Public Health Association Hoven, Timothy 211112011
WisconsinPublic Health Association Natzke, Ryan 2/1112011
Wisconsin Public Health Association Welsh, Michael 211112011
ConnectionsAcademy Inc Fonfara, Thomas 2/10/2011
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General Motors LLC (formerly General Fonfara, Thomas 2110/2011

Motors Company)
General Motors LLC (formerly General Seitz, Robert 211012011
Motors Company)
Adoption Resources of Wisconsin Blumenfeld, 2/9/2011
Michael
American Traffic Solutions Foti, Steven 2/9/2011
American Traffic Solutions Tyre, Scott 2/9/2011
America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) Langenohl, Tony 2/9/2011
America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) McCoshen, 2/9/2011
WiIliamJ
AT&T Wisconsin Disch, Kent 2/9/2011
ATC Management Inc. Langenohl, Tony 2/9/2011
ATC Management Inc. McCoshen, 2/9/2011
WilliamJ
Children's Hospital & Health System Graul, Mark 2/9/2011
Children's Hospital & Health System Ruesch, Kristin 2/9/2011
General Motors LLC (formerly General O'Connell, Brian 2/9/2011
Motors Company)
WEA Insurance Corporation Rogowski, 2/9/2011
Michael
Wisconsin Health Freedom Coalition Essie, Patrick 2/9/2011
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Ristow, Nate - GOV
From: Schutt, Eric ~ GOV

Sent: Friday, February 18, 201111:20 PM
To: Gilkes, Keith - GOV; Murray, Ryan M - GOV
Subject: Draft Response
Importance: High
We should respond in a letter to this one with a very brief letter:
Dear Senator Miller:
Do your job. Show up, debate the bill and cast your vote.
Sincerely,
Sen. Miller: Letter to Gov. Walker on compromise opportunity

2/18/2011
The letter below was sent to Gov. ScottWalker this afternoon:
Dear Governor Walker,
We've learned that earlier today public employees across the state made very clear their willingness to cooperatively
acceptadditional pension and health insurance concessions in order to do their part to help Wisconsin close a 2011
budget gap, and to assist in reducing the state'sdeficit going forward.
This development confirms to us that the Capitol demonstrations all this week were not about an unwillingness to
bargain pension or health Insurance concessions, but rather aboutthe devastating and unprecedented elimination of
essential collective bargaining rights for public workers. . .
Consequently, we strongly and respectfully urge you to request that Senate and Assembly Republicans modify your
budget repair legislation to remove all references to collective bargaining for all public employees.
We believe our request reflects a point of view shared bymany all across the state, but perhaps most significantly by
a variety of religious leaders who have expressed a sincere interest In bringing resolution to what has developed into
a deeply divisive environment that threatens progress on so many other pressing state social and economic issues.
We also it believe would speed closure on this issue by meeting With those leaders to listen to their concerns.
Sincerely,
Senator Mark Miller

Senate Minority Leader
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From: IMsPolitics Staff

Sent: Saturday, February 19, 201111:40AM
Subject: (WisPolitics) Advisory -- Scott Fitzgerald says no negotiations -- 19 February 2011
WisPolitics Advisory
19 February 2011
From WisPolitics.com .,.
-- Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald said the budget repair bill that sparked aDem
flight to Illinois is lion-negotiable.
Fitzgerald said in a press conference in the Capitolthls morning that he spoke with Senate
Minority Leader Mark Miller, D-Monona, by phone twice over the last day. He described the
conversations as "very brief' and said they were related to security concerns.
Fitzgerald, R-Juneau, said there are no ongoing conversations with Senate Democrats about
when they might return. But changes to the bill are off the table.
"The bill is not negotiable," he said.

I Follow the Budget Blog for today's developments:
htlp:/lbudget.wispolitics.coml
part, without the express permission of .
C' BLASTnewsfetteri
Ristow, Nate - GOV

Sent: Saturday, February ~ ,~
To: Schutt, Eric - GOV; ~ Gilkes, Keith - GOV; Werwie, Cullen J - GOV; Murray,
Ryan M-GOV
Keith are you good? We'll put senator erpenbach, senator miller and their fellow
democrats ... And add madison to the end
----- Original Message -----

From: Schutt, Eric - GOV
Sent: Saturday, February 19~
To: Schrimpf, Chris - GOV; ~ Gilkes, Keith - GOV; Werwie, Cullen J -
GOV; Murray, Ryan M - GOV
I would add to return to Madison in last sentence. Also, add Senator Miller's name in
there somewhere
Original Message
Sent~y 19, 2011 12:02 PM
To: tIIIIIIIIIIIIII Gilkes, Keith - GOV; Werwie, Cullen J - GOV; Schutt, Eric - GOV;
'Murray, Ryan M - GOV
Subject: Revised statement
Revised draft statement. Edited to keep the focus on the Senate Dems leaving their jobs.
Senator Erpenbach and his fellow Democrats should come back to Wisconsin to do their jobs.
These are many of the same Senators Who, two years ago, rammed through a billion dollar
tax hike in 24 hours with no public input. The quickest way to resolve the current
I situation is for the Democratiq Senators to stop shirking their responsibilities and
debate the bill in Madison. We continue to calIon them to come and do their jobs.
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From: (30V Press

Sent: Saturday, February 19, 201112:18 PM
To: GOV Press
Subject: Senate Oems should come to Madison
February 19, 2011

Contact: Cullen Werwie, 608-267-7303
Madison-Today Governor Walker's spokesman, Cullen Werwie, released the following statement:
Senator Erpenbach, Senator MiJler, and hisfellow Democrats should come back to Wisconsin to do their
jobs. These are many of the same Senators who, two years ago, rammed through a billion dollar tax
hike in 24 hours with no public input. The quickest way to resolve the currentsituation isfor the
Democratic Senators to stop shirking their responsibilities and debate the billin Madison. We continue
to callon them to come to Madison and do theirjobs.
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Ristow, Nate - GOV
From: Schrimpf, .Chris - GOV

Sent: Monda, Februa 21,20115:04 AM
To: , Gilkes, Keith - GOV; Murray, Ryan M - GOV; Schutt, Eric - GOV; Werwie,
Cullen J - V
Subject: AP for compromise 3 senators are needed
FYI - Fitzgerald says his caucus remains rock-solid, but something to keep an eye aD.
MADISON, Wis. -- To end a high-stakes stalemate over union rights that has captured the
nation's attention, a handful of Republican lawmakers in Wisconsin might have to stand up
to their new governor.
Gov. Scott Walker made clear Sunday he won't back off his proposal to effectively
eliminate collective bargaining rights for most public employees. Senate Democrats who
fled the state last week to delay the plan vowed not to come back to allow it to pass -
even if they have to miss votes on
other bills Tuesday. And union leaders said they would
not let up on protests that have consumed Wisconsin 1s capital city for a week and made the
state the center of a national debate over the role of public employees' unions.
That dynamic means it might take Republicans in the Legislature who believe Walker is
going too far to try to break the impasse. One idea that has. been floated by GOP Sen. Dale
Schultz would temporarily take away bargaining rights to get through the state's next two-
year budget, then immediately restore them.
While it's unclear whether that would be acceptable to his colleagues! Democratic· Sen. Jon
Erpenbach said in a phone interview from the hotel room in Chicago where he 1s Diding out
that Schultz was brave for making the proposal. He said Schultz, of Richland Center, and
five or six other Republican. senators who have ties to.organized labor are in the best
position to get both sides to negotiate a deal.
So far, thete's little evidence of a mOVe to compromise. "Won't happen, won't happen!
won't happen," said Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald .. The Juneau Republican said he
spoke with every member of his caucus over the weekend and they remained "rock. solid" in
their support for Walker's plan, even if they had some internal disagreements earlier.
Fitzgerald said Republicans could not back down now because the governor's two-year budget
blueprint, to be released in coming days, slashes spending for public schools and
municipal services by $1 billion or more. Local government leaders will need to make cuts
without bargaining with employees, he said.
Walker's plan would allow unions representing most public employees to negotiate only for
wage increases, not benefits or working conditions. Any wage increase above the consumer
price index would have to be approved in a referendum. Unions would face a vote of
membership every year to stay formed, .and workers could opt .out of paying dues.
The plan would also require many public employees to cut their take home pay by about 8
percent by contributing more of their salaries toward their health insurance and
retirement benefits. Union leaders said their members are willing to accept those
concessions, but they will not give up their right to collectively bargain.
Mariah Clark, an emergency medical technician at the University of Wisconsin hospital and
a volunteer firefighter, said she stands to lose $250 per month with the benefits
concessions. Standing on a bench holding a sign reading "EMT. Firefighter. Not the public
enemy," she said the pay cut would hurt, but that's not why she was protesting.
"1 really believe this is about workers everywhere, not just pUblic employees," said
Clark, 29. "It's pathetic that in Wisconsin, one of the places where the labor movement
started, that this would happen."
Wisconsin was the first state to enact a comprehensive collective bargaining law in 1959.
1
It's also the birthplace of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal
Employees, the national union representing all non-federal public employees, which was
.founded in 1936 in Madison.
Walker' said the concessions would help close a projected $3.6 billion budget deficit
through June 30, 2013, and the changes to weaken unions would pave the way for local and
state governments'to operate more efficiently for years to come.
The Republican-controlled Assembly is expected to meet Tuesday to consider the plan. With
Senate Democrats in Illinois, Fitzgerald said the Senate would meet without them to pass
non-spending bills and confirm some of Walker's appointees. While Republicans are one vote
short of the quorum needed to take up the budget-repair bill, they need only a simple
majority of the Senate's 33 members to take up other measures.
Senate Minority Leader Mark Miller, speaking from "an undisclosed location in northern
Illin9is;1l said it's,up to Republicans who privately have concerns with W~lker's plan to.
force the governor to compromise.
"r think it's important those talks begin because there's a lot of RepUblicans that are
uncomfortable with stripping away the rights of workers," the Monona Democrat said. "They
recognize public workers are their constituents and neighbors and want them respected. We
need to find a way for those Republicans to be able to be part of a 'solutio
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Subject: (WisPolitics) MON AM Update -- 21 February2011
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•• Some organizers say today's protests could be the biggest yet. Today's calendar
DC Wrap
Sunday saw a much lighter crowd around the Capitol with an icy mix of' Budget Blog
precipitation hitting Madison. But the day before, some 60,000 people Quorum Call
crammed the Capitol square for two pro-union rallies and a pro-Scott Walker WisOpinion.com
event. WisBusiness.com
And today is a furlough day for most state employees, and it's Presidents
. Day. .
Today's pro-union events include a noon rally and then a 5 p.m. rally and
concert.
. *Seedetails of the pro-union rally:

http://wispolitics.comlindex.iml?Article=2274 77
*See a calendar with details on who's impacted by today's state furlough
day:
http://doa.wi.gov/eventcalendar.asp?locid=12
-- Madison schools are closed again today -- the fourth consecutive

school day -- because of concerns over significant staff absences. But
the district said In a message to parents that the administration has received
assurances staff plans to return and schools will be open tomorrow.
WEAC President May Belf yesterday called on teachers to go back to work

in their districts today unless they had a scheduled day off for Presidents
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Day.
-- Gov. Scott Walker called union offers to accept a greater share of

their benefits a "red herring," saying the same unions tried to ram
through contracts in a lame-duck legislation session late last year after
he won the election.
Appearing on "Fox News Sunday," Walker also showed no interest in

negotiating with Senate Oems who fled the Capitol to stop a vote on the
budget repair bill that includes the austerity measures and the stripping of
almost all collective bargaining rights for public employees.
"Democracy means you show up and participate, and they failed to do that,"
Walker said. "They walked out on their job."
Watch the show:

http://www.foxnews.comfon-air/fox-news-sunday/index.html
-- Walker's office issued a statement this morning arguing collective

bargaining is a fiscal issue, giving three examples.
The guv's office argued many school districts participate in the WEA Trust
because WEAC collectively bargains to get as many districts as possible to
participate in the union-run health. It also pointed to an effort by Milwaukee
teachers through collective bargaining to have Viagra covered by health
.insurance and a Department of Corrections provision that allows guards
who call in sick to collect overtime if they report to work that same day.
Walker's office said districts could save up to $68 million a year by joining
the state health insurance plan and the Corrections provision costs
taxpayers a projected $4.8 million annually. The Viagra provision would cost
Milwaukee taxpayers $786,000 a year.
The district agreed to cover drugs that treat erectile dysfunction in 2002, but
sought to cease the coverage in its 2003-05 contract. An arbitrator sided
with the disfrict, and the union eventually went to court seeking.to restore
coverage.
"Instead of stimulating the hospitality sector of Illinois' economy, Senate

Democrats should come back to the Madison, debate the bill, cast their
vote, and help get Wisconsin's economy back on track," Walker spokesman
Cullen Werwie said.
See the release:

http:ftwww.wispolitics.com/index.iml?Article=227506
-- Democratic senators who fied the state to prevent a vote on austerity

measures for publlc workers are prepared to stay away as long as it
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takes for Walker to agree to negotiate, state Sen. Jon Erpenbach says.
The Waunakee Democrat appeared on Sunday's "Upfront with Mike

Gousha," a statewide TV news magazine produced in conjunction with
WisPolitics.com, from an ABC affiliate in Chicago.
The measures would strip most public union workers of nearly all collective
bargaining rights and require them to contribute 5.8 percent of their salaries
. to their pensions and to pay 12 percent of their health care costs. Police,
fire, and state troopers and inspectors would be exempt.
Erpenbach said the unions have offered to agree to the fiscal concessions if
Walker removes the language that would strip collective bargaining rights.
But he said Walker's
. indicated the proposal is,non-negotiable and rejected
Walker's call to return to debate the bill.
"It's really hard to corne back and debate something that's non-negotiable,"
Erpenbach said. "It makes absolutely no sense at all,"
He said Walker is busting public unions and dividing the state.
"What he's done with this legislation is totally rip the fabric of Wisconsin right
apart," Erpenbach said. 'The state's very divided on this issue, and I can't
see hirn moving forward, shoving forth this legislation with a state this
divided."
Erpenbach acknowledged the decision to leave was "extreme," but that it

was necessary to slow the bill down so people could find out what's in the
legislation.
He questioned Walker's mandate to pass the bill, saying he never raised the
issue of cutting union rights during the campaign. .
As for the senators' return, "That's up to Governor Walker when we come

back," Erpenbach said.
-- Meanwhile, state Rep. Robin Vas, R-Rochester, predicted the bill

would pass. .
With the state facing a budget shortfall, the changes are needed to prevent
"massive layoffs" and save people getting kicked off of Medicaid, he said.
"If we don't solve this now, it only gets worse later," Vos said.
He noted that Republicans made significant changes to the bill, putting in

place a grievance process and extending civil service protections to local
government employees. He said they would still be able to bargain for wage
hikes under the rate of inflation, face no furlough days and "have better
protections, better pensions, better benefits than almost anybody in the
private sector."
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"That is very reasonable and something that anybody in the private sector
would happily take," Vas said.
While he said the protests and the "howling and chanting" has given some
GOP representatives pause, their resolve would be strengthened as they
hear from constituents.
"When we go home over the weekend, I am.confident we're going to come

back even stronger than ever, because the real people back home are the
ones we represent, not just the people gathered around the square from
Madison," he said.
Watch the show:

http://www.wisn.com/upfronUindex.html
-- The Senate and Assembly plan to be in tomorrow.
The Assembly plans to take up the budqet repair bill tomorrow after quickly
adjourning a late afternoon session Friday.
A spokesman for Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald, R-Juneau, said the

Senate will be on-the floor tomorrow with or without Oems. Republicans will
take up non-fiscal legislation that it can tackle with a quorum of 17 members
rather than the 20 needed for fiscal items like the budget repair bill.
Follow all the developments in the Budget Blog:

-- Milwaukee Mayor Tom.Barrett is scheduled to deliver his state of the

city address this morning.
-- The National Association of State Treasurers. has canceled its

summer 2012 national conference in Milwaukee.
State Treasurer Kurt Schuller said the group's executive committee was
uncomfortable coming to Wisconsin because he has advocated eliminating
the office.
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TOP HEADLINES
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- Wisconsin Puts Obama Between Competing Desires: WH's Pfeiffer:
"False' claims of White House involvement are attempts to distract from
the organic grasscroots opposition that is happening in Wisconsin."
Walker on Fox: "The president ultimately should stay focused on
fixing the federal budget," noted "more and more" protesters from
other states. GOP US Sen. Graham, Dem US Sen. Durbin, AFL-CIO's Vale
comment.
!::!1tR:llwww.nytimes.com/2011/02/21/us/politics/21democrats.html
- Gov. Walker relishes time in spotlight: Walker: "I've always been

bold ... , But you gotta be. We have no choice. Again, we're broke. We
don't have any more options." GOP leader Grebe: "He really does
believe in skinny budgets and protecting the taxpayers.... He is
committed to this." Some analysis. Science union's Steffen, Oem Rep.
Barca comment. [by AP]
http://www.wiscnews.com/portagedailyregister/newsllocal/article e5a5e374-
3d75-11 eO-geOb-001 cc4c03286.html
- Defiant Oems vow to stay away: Oem Sen. Erpenbach: "He [Walker]
says he's not going to negotiate this. So it doesn't make any sense to
me for us come back and debate something that's not negotiable. That's
ridiculous." Senate Minority Leader Miller: "he has just insisted
that he has everything his way, and I think people are getting tired
of it." .
http://www.wrn.com/2011/02/defiant-dems-vow-to-stay-away/#more-37481
- Budget battle: Smaller group of protesters shows up Sunday; Senate

Republicans plan to meet Tuesday, Democrats consider staying out past
refinance deadline; GOP plans action on other bills: Without
refinancing, state would have to cut health care, other programs to
balance FY11 budget. Walker, Oem Sens. Erpenbach and Miller, DOA Sec.
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Huebsch, WEAC Pres. Bel, JFC co-chair Rep. Vos comment.

.!illJ;>:llwww -isonline.com/news/statepolitics/116563323. htmI
- WEAC's Bell wants teachers back at work ... "We call on them to
return to duty by day, and find ways to be vocal and visible after
their work day is down," Bell said. "To those whose contracts
recognize Presidents Day as a holiday, we call on them to return to
Madison." Reiterated acceptance of higher health, pension
contributions, opposed 'non-fiscal policy items" like collective
bargaining changes.
http://www.wrn.com/2011/02/weacs-bell-wants-teachers-back-at-work-
audiol
- Bill protesters, supporters meet in rallies at Capitol: crowd

estimated at 60,000. Ex-US Sen. Feingold, Rev. Jesse Jackson spoke to
ralliers. Jackson: "This is a Ghandi moment, this is a King moment."
WEAC Pres. Bell: "We will not be silenced ... our intensity grows."Joe
the Plumber, US Senate candidate Westlake addressed counter rally,
read letter from Sarah Palin. UW-Whitewater CR's Abbott, MPD's
DeSpain comment. . .
htlp:llwww.dailycardinal.com/news/bill-protesters-supporters-meet-in-rallies-
at-capitol-1.2007682
. - Republicans' early vote on bill amendments infuriates Oems:

Assembly on Friday called roll, accepted amendments, moved bill to
third reading before Oems called to chamber. Speaker Fitzgerald said
early start presumed Dem absence based on earlier Barca remark.
Minority Leader Barca outraged, won motion to return bill to amendable
stage. Oem Reps. Hintz, Roys made impassioned speeches.
http://www.dailycardinal.com/news/republicans-early-vote-on-bill-
arnendments-infuriates-dems-1.2007688
- Local governments concerned state-shared revenue cuts may exceed

cost savings Walker's bill might offer: Oshkosh City Mgr. Rohloff,
Winnebago Co. Exec. Harris, Oshkosh Schools Tess, Vickmann note local
contracts vary, some pay more towards health, pension than Walker
calls for. IWF's Norman, Oshosh CoC's Casper comment.
hllp:llwww.thenorlhwestern.com/arlicle/2011022010SH01 01/102200365
- State budget fights fire up unions: Nearly every major union

behind $30M plan to stop anti-labor measures in Wisconsin and 10 other
states [FL, IN, ME, MI, MN, MO, NH, NJ OH, PAl. Pres. Obama and his
political machine are offering tactical support, eager to repair
strained relations with some union leaders. Dem US Rep. Bonior,
AFL-CIO'sAckerman, Oem pollster Mellman, Third Way's Bennett
comment.
rAP]
http://dailyreporter.com/blog/2011/02/20/state-budget-figh ts-fire-up-unionsl
- Walker budget bill could harm many covered by Medicaid in state ...
about 30 groups representing children, the elderly, people with mental
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health conditions and others gathered at the Madison Senior Center to

voice concerns about Walker's plan. Werwie for Walker said changes
and flexibility needed to plug $1.88 Medicaid deficit. WCCF's
Peacock, some attendees comment.
http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/health med fitlarticle 4415fffO-
3d4b-11 eO-bS69-001 cc4c002eO.html
TODAY'S CALENDAR
-- Birthday -- Sen. Michael Ellis
-- 8 a.m.: Milwaukee Mayor Barrett delivers State of the City address,

Milwaukee Job Corps Center, 6665 N. 60th St., Milwaukee.
-- 12 p.m.: Concert at Rally for Wisco,nsin, Rage against the Machine's Tom
Morello headlines, State Capitol.
http://www.wispolitics.com/index.lml?Article=227477
-- 6:30 p.m.: CCIWI presents 'The future of Wisconsin elections: The pros
and cons of reform', UW-Madison Memorial Union - 4th Floor - "Class of
1924" Room, SOO Langdon Street, Madison
http://www.commoncausewisconsin. org/20 11/02/ccwi-reform-event-at-uw-
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Sent: Monday, February 21, 2011 9:33 AM
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SUbject: Draft of release for noon
Let me know what you think of the release below.
February 21, 2011

Contact: Cullen Werwie, 60S-267-7303
Timeline of Union & Senate Democrats Budget Related

Events
Madison-Today Governor Walker's office released a timeline of union and Senate Democrat actions
related to balancing the budget.
2009
February 17-Governor Doyle introduces a budget repair bill that raises taxes by one billion dollars.
February is-Senate Democrats ram the bill through the Legislature, without a public hearing.
(http://legis.wisconsin.gov/2009/data/SB66hst.html)
2010
November 2-County Executive Scott Walker becomes the Governor-elect.
November 10-Governor-elect Walker asked Governor Doyle to suspend contract negotiations so their
fiscal impact could be considered in the context of the 2011-13 state budget.
November 29-Governor-elect Walker penned a letter to the lame duck legislature, asking them not to
take up state employee contracts. (attached)
December 7-Marty Beil, executive director of AFSCME calls Walker, "master ofthe plantation and
we're supposed to be his slaves."
December 10-The contract negotiations, which were not completed in the first 17 months of the
contract period, were suddenly finalized.
December 16-State employee contracts fail to pass the Legislature. Marty Beil, executive director of
AFSCME calls a Legislator "not a prostitute, a whore. W-H-O-R-E."
(http://host.madison.com/wsi/news/local/govt-and-politics/article e836dc76-0862-11eO-a476-
001cc4c03286.html)
January 3-Governor Walker is inaugurated. Wisconsin faces a $137 million current fiscal year shortfall
and looming $3.6 billion structural budget deficit.
FebrUary ll-Governor Walker introduces budget repair bill and has meeting with Senator Miller and
Representative Barca to personally brief them on the bill.
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February 15-The Joint Finance Committee takes 17 hours of public testimony on the budget repair bill.
February 16-The Joint Finance Committee passes the budget repair bill with minor changes to protect
workers rights.
February 17-Fourteen Senate Democrats flee Wisconsin to avoid debating, offering amendments or
casting a vote on the budget repair bill. They go to a Best Western in Illinois and continue to draw their
paycheck, total cost to taxpayers $1,915 for the day. (legislators are paid $49,943 per year. $49,943
divided by 365 days, times 14 State Senators = $1,915)
February 1S-Public employee unions claim to support having their members pay 5.8% a pension
contribution and 12.6% of the cost of health insurance coverage. Governor Walker states that when
local governments receive cuts to state aid they are going to needs the tools contained in his proposal
to help balance their budget without layoffs or reductions in the delivery of cover government services.
Fourteen Senate Democrats remain in Illinois, take an additional $1,915 from taxpayers for the day.
from taxpayers for the. day.
from taxpayers for the day.
from taxpayers for the day. Senate Democrats begin to fundraise.
(http:Uwww.ssdc-wi.org/SSDC/Home.html)
Along with this timeline Governor Walker's spokesman, Cullen Werwie, released the following
statement:
Senate Democrats are hypocrites who are now actinglike children playing a dangerous game ofhide-
. and-qo-seek with our states' finances. 24 hours was enough time for them to increase taxes by $1 billion
I dollars two years ago. Now with more than 17 hours ofpublie testimony and a 5 day vacation to Illinois,
Senate Democrats say they need more time.
The truth is at a time when Wisconsin is in a fiscal crisis, these individuals are on a taxpayerfunded,
campaignfundraisinq vacation-avoiding debate and theirduty to cast their vote on a proposal thatis
100% directed at balancing ourstate's budget.
Instead of using Wisconsin's fiscal crisis to fill their campaign coffers, Senate Democrats shoulddo their
job. '
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From:' Schrimpf, Chris - GOV·

Sent: Friday, February 18, 2011 7:45 AM
To: Schrimpf, Chris - GOV
SUbje~t: ICYMI·Washingion Post: ·ObamajeinsWisconsin's budqetbattle, appalling Repubflcan.anti-unlon
.bill' .
Obama joins Wisconsin's budget battle, opposing Republican

anti-union bill
By Brady Dennis and Peter Wallsten
Washington Post Staff Writers
Friday, February 18, 2011;.AOI
MADISON, WIS. - President Obama thrust himself and his political operationthis week into
.. Wisconsin's broilingbudgetbattle, mobilizing oppositionThursday to a Republicanbill that would curb
'. public-worker benefits while planiringsimilar action in other state capitals.. .
Obama accused-Seott Walker, the state's-new-Republican'govemor;-ofunleashing1U1 "assault" 'on'unions

inpushing emergencylegislationthat would nullify collective-bargaining agreements that affectmost
public employees,including teachers.. .
The president's politicalmachineworked in close coordination Thursdaywith state and nationalunion

officials to mobilizethousands ofprotesters to gatherin Madison and to plan similar demonstrations in
.other state capitals.
-_. ".:'" Thei~ efforts- began-to spread, as thousands of labor supporters turned out for a hearing in Columbus,
Ohio, to protest a measurefrom Gov. John Kasich (R) that would cut collective-bargaining rights.
By the.end of the day, Democratic Party officials were working to organizeadditional demonstrations in
Ohio and Indiana, where an effort is underway to trim benefits for public workers. Some union activists
predicted similar protests in Missouri,New Jersey and Pennsylvania,
Under Walker's plan, most public 'workers - excluding police, firefighters and state troopers - would
have to pay half of their pension costs and at least 12 percent of their health-care costs. They would lose
bargaining rights for anything' other than pay. Walker, who took office lastmonth, says the emergency
measure is needed to save $300 million over the next two years to help close a $3.6 billion budget gap.
."Some of what I've heard coming out of Wisconsin, where they'rejust making it harder for public
employees to' collectively bargain generally, seems like more of an assault on unions," Obamatold a
Milwaukee television reporter, taking the unusualstep of inviting a local station into the White House
for a sit-down interview. "l think everybody's got to make some adjustments.butI think it's also
important to recognizethat public employees make enormous contributions to our states and our
citizens." . .
The White House political operation, Organizing for America, got involvedMonday, after Democratic
National Committee Chairman Timothy M. Kaine, a former Virginiagovernor, spoketo union leaders in
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Madison, a party official said.
The gi:oup made phon'; calls, distributed messages via Twitter and Facebook, and sent e-mails to its 'state
and national lists.to try to build crowds for rallies Wedriesday and Thursday, a party official said.
National Republican leaders, who have praised efforts similar to Walker's, leapt to his defense.
House Speaker John A. Boehner (Ohio) issued a stem rebuke of the White House, calling on Obama to
wave
.
off his political operation and stop criticizing the governor.
,
"This is not the way you begin an 'adult conversation' in America about solutions to the fiscal-challenges
that are destroying.jobs in our country," Boehner said in a statement, alluding to the president's call fOr
civilityin budget.talks, "Rather.than.shouting down those in office who speak honestly about the
challenges we face, the. president and his advisers should lead."
Unsustainable costs
. The battle in the states.underscores the deep philosophical and political divisions between Obama and
Republicans over how to control spending and who should bear the costs.
By aligning himselfclosely with unions, Obama is siding with a core piece ofthe Democratic Party base
- but one that has chafed in recent weeks as the president has sought to rebuild his image among centrist
voters by reaching out to business leaders.
Republicans see a chance to show that they're willing to make the tough choices to cut spending and to
challenge the power of public-sector unions, which are the largest element of the labor movement and
'regularly raise tens of
. millions of dollars for Democratic campaigns.
. .
Governors in both parties are slashing once-untouchable programs, including those' covering education,
health care for the poor and aid to local governments. Some states; such as Illinois-have passed major
tax increases.
States face a collective budget deficit of $175 billionthrough 2013. Many experts say state tax revenue
will not fully-recover until the nation returns to full employment, which is not likely for several years.
Beyond their short-term' fiscal problems, many state" face pension and retiree health-care costs that
some analysts say are unsustainable. Some states already are curtailing retirement benefits'for new
employees, although many analysts say it will take much more to bring their long-term obligations in
Iine. '. . .
The huge debt burdens coupled with the impending termination of federal stimulus aid later this year
have spurred talk of the need for a federal bailout. The White House has dismissed such speculation,
saying states have the wherewithal to raise taxes, cut programs and renegotiate employee contracts to
balance their books,
No-shows
In Wisconsin, Democratic senators were able to block the bill's passage Thursday by not showing up for .
anl l a.m. quorum call. Republicans hold a 19 to !4 edge in the Senate, but 20 votes are required for
final passage.
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"I don't know exactly where they are, but as I understand it, they're somewhere in Illinois," said Mike
Browne, 'spokesman for Mark Miller, the state Senate's Democratic leader.
. Democratic legislators in Texas employ.ed a similar tactic in 2003 to try to stop a controversial .
redistricting plan that gave Republicans more seats in Congress. It passed a couple of months later.
The organized protest at the state Capitol drew an estimated 25,000 people, 'and long after the quorum
call, thousands remained on the grounds, from children in strollers to old ladies in wheelchairs. .
Inside the Capitol, the scene late Thursday night was part rock concert, part World Cup match, part high
school pep rally and part massive slumber party,
The smell of sweat and pizza drifted through the building's marbled halls. A drum circle formed inside
the.massive.roturida, and scores of university students danced jubilantly to the rhythm. There were
clanging cowbells'and twanging
. guitars, trumpets . and vuvuzelas,
.Outside, another. throng had gathered to cheer and chant before the television cameras, and to break
'constantly into the crowd's favorite anthem: "Kill the bill! Kill the bill! n. And everywhere were signs,
, each with its own dose of disdain for Walker's budget bill: "Scotty, Scotty, flush your bill down the
. potty." "Walker's Plantation, open for business." "You will never break our union."
Many of the protesters.Including Laurie Bauer, 51; hail been onhand since Tuesday, with no plans'to
leave until the issue is resolved.
"It's one thing about the money: We'd be'willing to negotiate the money," said Bauer; a library media
specialist at Parker High School in Janesville. But "he's trying to take away our human rights: ... I don't
want my kids living in a state like that."
.. ; Loren Mikkelson, 37, held the same position: Budget cuts are negotiable.butcollective -bargaining
. rights are not: '. --'. • ....... -..... '-~.- ·.C c · .... ·c.., '<.' . .... .. ..
..
"We can-meet in the middle. we're willing to give.... He's acting like we've never given anything.
We!ve given," said Mikkelson, a airfield maintenance worker who said he has endured furloughs and
pay cuts in his county job. "We just want a voice."
Implications' for. Obama
The state-level.battles and Obama's decision to step into the fray illustrate how the budget choices state
leaders are facing probably willhave direct implicationsfor the president's political standing.
Wisconsin and Ohio'are likely battlegrounds for Obama's re-election effort. Mobilizing Organizing for
America around the'budget fights could help kick-start a political machinery that has been largely
stagnant since the 2008 campaign and reignite union activists who have expressed some disappointment
with Obama,
. -
But by leaping in to defend public workers, the president risks alienating swing voters in those states .
and nationwide' who are sympathetic to oor governors perceived as taking on special interests'to cut
spending.
Obama,' in his comments to the Wisconsin 'I'V'rcporter, tried to walk a fine line - noting that he, too, has
Page 4 of4
taken on the unions..
"We had. to. impose a freeze on pay increases on federal workers for the next two years as part of my
overall budget freeze.t'he said; "I think those kinds of adjustments are the right thing to.do."
Walker, meanwhile, called his proposals}'modest" and appeared. to'be trying to show distance between
public employeesand workers employed by private companies, who he said expressed support.for his
policies during visits he made to manufacturing plants this week.
"Many of the companiesI went by, like so many others across the state, don't have pensions, and the 401
.(k)s they have over the last year or two, they've had to suspend the employer contribution," Walker told
Milwaukee radio station WTMJ. "So, not a lot of sympathyfrom these guys in private-sector.
. manufacturing companieswho I think reflect a lot of the workers in the state who say what we're asking
foris pretty modest." .
dennisb@washpost.com walistenp@washpost.com
Wallsten reportedfrom Washington. Staffwriter MichaelA. Fletcher in.Washington contributedto this

report.
Chris Schrimpf
Communications Director
Office of theGovernor
Press Office: 608-267-7303
Email: chris.schrtmpfiiiiwlsconsin.gov
,
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From: Schrimpf, Chrls> GQV "

Sent: Friday, February 18, 2011 7:45AM,
To: Schrimpf, Chris -GOV
Subject: ICYMI Washington Post: Obarna joins Wisconsin's budget battle, opposing Republican anti-union
, bill ' .
Obama joins Wisconsin's budget battle, opposing Republican,

anti-union bill
By Brady Dennis and Peter Wallsten
WashingtonPost StaffWriters
Friday, February 18, 2011; AOI
MADISON, WIS, - President Obama thrust himself and his political operation this week into, '
, Wisconsin's broiling budget battle, mobilizing opposition Thursday to a Republican bill that would curb
public-worker benefits while planning similar actionin other state capitals, "
Obama accused'Scott Walker, the state's new Republicangovernor, ofunleashing an "assault" on unions
in pushing emergency legislation that would nullify collective-bargaining agreements that affect.most
public employees, including teachers,
The president's political machine worked in close coordination Thursday with state and national union
officialsto mobilize thousands ofprotesters to gather in Madison and to plan similar demonstrations in
other state capitals. '
-'~"-'Pheir'efforts began tospread, as thousands of labor supporters turned out for a hearing in Columbus,
Ohio, to protest a measure from Gov. John Kasich (R) that would cut collective-bargaining rlghts.;
By the end ofthe day, Democratic Party officials were working to organize additional demonstrations in
Ohio and Indiana, where an effort is underway to trim benefits for public workers. Some union activists
predicted similar protests in Missouri, New Jersey and Pennsylvania,
Under Walker's plan, most public workers - excluding police.firefighters and state troopers - would
have to pay half of their pension costs and at least 12 percent of their health-care costs. They would lose
bargaining rights for anything other than pay. Walker, who took office last month, says the emergency
measure is needed to save $300 million over the next two years to help close a $3.6 billion budget gap.
"Some of what I've heard coming out of Wisconsin, where they're just making it harder for public
employees to collectively bargain generally, seems like more of an assault on unions," Obama told a
Milwaukee television reporter, taking the unusual step of inviting a local station into the White' House
for a sit-down interview. "I think everybody's.got to make some adjustments; but I think it's also',
'important to recognize that public employees make enormous contributions to ourstates and our',
citizens."
The White House political operation; Organizing for America, got involved Monday, after Democratic
National Committee Chairman Timothy M. Kaine, a former Virginia gov.ernor, spoke to union leaders in
Page 2 of4
Madison, a party official said.
. The group.made phone calls, distributed inessages via Twitter andFacebook, and sent e-mails to its state
.and'national lists to try to build crowds for rallies Wednesday'and Thursday, a party official said.
. "National Republican leaders, who have praised efforts similar to Walker's, leapt to his defense.
House SpeakerJohn A. Boehner (Ohio) issued a stern rebuke ofthe White House, calling on Obama to
wave offhis political operation and stop criticizing the governor. .
"This is not the way you beginan 'adult conversation' in Americaabout solutions to the fiscal challenges'
that are destroyingjobs in our country," Boehner said in a statement, alluding to the president's call for
civility "in budget.talks, "Rather.fhanshouting down those in office who speak honestly about the
challenges we face, the president and his advisers should lead." . .
Unsustainable costs
.The battle in the states underscores the deep philosophical.and political divisions between Obama and
Republicans over how to control spending and who should bear the costs: . .
By aligning hiinself closely with unions, Obama is siding with a Core piece of the Democratic Party base
- but one-that has chafed in recent weeks as the president bas sought to rebuild his image among centrist:
voters by reaching out to business leaders. . '.
Republicans see a chance to show that they're willing to make the tough choices to cut spending and to
.challenge the power of public-sector unions, which are the largest element of the labor movenient and
regularly raise tens ofmillions of dollars for Democratic campaigns.' . ..
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tax increases.
States face a collective budget deficit of $175 billion through 2013. Many experts say state tax revenue
will not fully recover until the nation returns to full employment, which is not likely for several years..
. Beyond their short-term fiscal problems, manystates face pension and retiree health-care coststhat-
some analysts say are unsustainable. Some states already are curtailing retirement benefits.for new
einployees, although many analysts say it will take much more to bring their long-term obligations in
.line. -' . . .
. Thehuge debt burdens coupled with the impending termination of federal stimulus aid later this year
.have spurred talk of the needfora federal bailout, The White House has dismissed suchspeculation,
saying states have the wherewithal to raise taxes, cut prograins and renegotiate employee contracts to
balance their books. .
No-shows
In Wisconsin, Democratic senators were able to block the bill's passage Thursday by not showing up for
an 11 a.m, quorum call. Republicans hold a 19 to 14 edge in the'Senate, but 20 votes are required for
final passage.'
Page 3 of4
"I don't know exactly where they are, but as I understand it, they're somewhere in Illinois," said Mike
Browne, spokesman for Mark Miller, the state Senate's Democratic leader.
Democratic legislators in Texas employed a'similar tactic in 2003 to try to stopa controversial
redistricting plan that-gave Republicans more seats in Congress.It passed a-couple of months later.
The organized protest at the state Capitol drew an estiml1ted'Z5,000 people, and long after the quorum
call, thousands remained on the grounds, from, children in strollers to oldladies in wheelchairs.
Inside the Capitol, the scene late Thursday night was part rockconcert, part World Cup match, part high
school pep rally and part massive slumber party:
The smell ofsweat andpizza drifted through the building's marbled halls. A drum circle formed inside
the massive-rotunda, and scores of university students danced jubilantly to the rhythm. There were
clanging cowbells and twanging guitars, trumpets and vuvuzelas.
Outside, another throng had gathered to cheer and chant before the television cameras, and to break .
constantly into the'crowd's favorite anthem: "Kill the bill! Kill the bill!" And everywhere were signs,
each with its own dose of disdain for Walker's budget bill: "Scotty, Scotty, flush your billdown the
. potty. " "Walker's Plantation, open for business." "You willnever break our union."
.. : Many oft-he protesters; including'Laurie Bauer;51;hadbeenoifhand sinceTuesday, with no plans to' .

leave until the issue is resolved. . . ,
"It's one thing about the money. We'd be willing to negotiate' the money," said Bauer, 'alibrary media
specialist at Parker High School in Janesville'. But "he's trying to.take away our human'rights..... I don't
want my-kids living In a state like that." .'
"We can meet in the middle. We're willing to give.... He's acting like we've never given anything.
We've given," said Mikkelson, a-airfieldmaintenance worker who said he has endured furloughsand .
pay cuts in his county job. "We just want a voice:"
Implications for Obama
. , The state-level battlesand Obama's decision to step into-thefray illustrate how the budget choices state
leaders are facirig probably will have direct implications for the president's political. standing.
Wisconsin and Ohio are likely battlegrounds for Obama's re-election effort. Mobilizing Organizingfor
America around the budget fights could help kick-start a political machinery that has been largely
stagnant since the 2008 campaign and reignite union activists who have expressed some disappointment
with Obama. .
But by leaping in to defend public workers, the president risks alienating swing voters in those states
, and nationwide who are sympathetic to GOP governors perceived as taking on special intereststo cut
spending:
Obama, in his comments to the Wisconsin TV reporter, tried to walk a fme·line - noting that he, too, has
Page-l of-l
taken on the unions.
· "We had to'impose a freeze on pay increases on federal workers for the next two years as part of my
· overall budget freeze," he said. "I think thosekinds of adjustments are the right thing to do."
Walker, meanwhile; called his proposals "modest" and appeared to be trying to show qist~ce between
· public employees and workers employed by private companies, who he said expressed support for his
policies during visits he niade to manufacturing plants this week.
"Many of the· companies I went by, like somany others across the state, don't have pensions, and the 401
(k)s they have over the last year or two, they've had to suspend the employer contribution," Walker told
Milwaukee radio station WTMJ. "So, not a lot of sympathy from these guys in private-sector .
manufacturing companies who I think reflect a lot ofthe workers in the state who say what we're asking.
. for is pretty modest." .
dennisb@washpost.com wallstenp@washpost.com
Wallsten reported.from Washington. Staffwriter Michael A. Fletcher in Washington contributedto this

report.
Chris Schrimpf
Office ofthe Governor
Email: chris.schrimpj@wisconsin.gov
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From: Lucas, Paul

Sent: Friday, February 18, 2011 7:46 AM .
Subject: HE: ICYMI 2: Wall Street Journal Editorial
, Thanks Chris - any idea on when the Senate Oems return?
From: 'Schrimpf, Chris - GOV [mailto:Chris.Schrimpf@wisconsin.gov]

Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2011 7:03 PM
To: Schrimpf, Chris - GOV' .
SUbject: ICYMI 2: Wall Street Journai Edi.torial
This editorial will be in tomorrow's Wall Street Journal:
"The battle of Mad Town is a seminal showdown, over whether government union power can be tamed;
and overall government reined in. The alternative is higher taxes until the middle class is picked clean'
and the' U. S..economy.is no longer competitive. Voters said in November that they want reform, and Mr.
Walker is trying to deliver. We hope Republicans hold firm, and that the people of Wisconsin
understand that this battle is ultimately about their right to self-government."
Athens in Mad Town

A seminal showdown between public uniOlis and taxpayers. '
.;;. ..•
For Americans who don't think the welfare state riots of France or Greece can happen here, we
recommend a look at the union and Democratic Party spectacle now urifolding in Wisconsin. Over the
past few days, thousands have swarmed the state capital and airwaves to intimidate lawmakers and
disrupt Governor Scott Walker's plan to level the playing field between taxpayers and government
unions'.' , .
Mr. Walker's very modest proposal would take away the ability of most government employees to
collectively bargain for benefits. They could still bargain for higher wages, but future wage increases
.would be capped at the federal Consumer Price Index, unless otherwise specified by a voter referendum.
The bill would also require union members to contribute 5.8% of salary toward their pensions and chip
in 12.6% of the cost of their health insurance premiums. '
If those numbers don't .sound outrageous, you probably work in the private economy. The comparable
nationwide employee health-care contribution is 20% for private industry, according to the Bureau of
Labor Statistics. The average employee contribution from take-home pay' for retirement was 75% in
2009, according to the Employee Benefits Research Institute.' .
. Mr. Walker says he has no choice but to make these changes because unions refuse to negotiate any
compensation changes, which is similar to the experience Chris Christie had upon taking office in New
Jersey. Wisconsin is running a $137 million deficit thisyear and anticipates coming up another $3.6
billion short in the next two-year budget. Governor Walker's office estimates the proposals would save
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the state $300 million over the next two years, and the alternative would be to layoff 5,500 public
employees.
.None of this is deterring the crowds in Madison, aka.Mad Town, where protesters, including many from'
the 98,000-member teachers union, have gone Greek. Madison's school district had to close Thursday
whei140% of its teachers called in sick. So much for the claim that this. is "all about thechildren," By
the way, these are some of the same teachers who "suedthe Milwaukee school board last August to get.
Viagra coverage restored to their health-care plan, .
The protests have an orchestrated quality; and sure enough, the Politico website reported yesterday that'
the Democratic Party's Organizing for America arm is helping to gin them up. The outfit is a remnant of
President Obama's 2008 election campaign, so it's also no surprise that Mr. Obama said yesterday that
while-he knows nothing about the bill, he supportsprotesters occupying the Capitol building.
."These folks are teachers, and they're firefighters and they're social workers and they're police officers,"
he said, "and it's important not to vilify them." Mr. Obama is right that he knows nothing about the bill
because"it explicitly exchidespolice and frrefighters. We'd have thought the President had enough to
think about with his own $1.65 trillion deficit proposal going down with a thud in Congress, but it .
appears that the 2012 campaign is alreadyunderway.
The unions and their Democratic friends have also been rolling out their Bitler, Soviet Union and Hosni
Mubarak analogies. "Thostory around the world is the rush to democracy," offered Democratic. State
· .Senator Bob Jauch. "The story in Wisconsin is the end ofthe democratic process."
The reality is thatthe unions are trying to trump the will ofthe voters as overwhelmingly rendered in .
November when they elected Mr. Walker and a newlegislature. As with the strikes againstpension or
labor reforms that routinely shutdown Paris orAthens, the. goal is to create enough mayhem thai .
Republicans and voters will give ).lp. . . .
0'" :;.:,'-,' «WlITIe Republicans fiowhavethe votesto pass the bill; ohTfiursaay'B1g Labor'sDemocratic allies
walked out of the state senate to.block a vote. Under state rules, 20 members of the 33-member senate
must be presentto hold a vote on an appropriations bill, leaving the 19 Republicans one member short..
By the end of the day some Democrats were reported to have fled the state. So who's really trying to
· short-circuit democracy? .
Unions are treating these ~efonns as Armageddon because they've owned the Wisconsin legislaturefor
years and the changes would reduce their dominance.. Under Governor Walker's proposal, the
· government also would no.Ionger collect union dues from paychecks and then send that money to.the
· unions. Instead, unions would be responsible for their own collection'regimes. The bill would also .
require unions to be recertified annually by a majority of all members. Imagine that: More accountability
inside Unions.
"
The-larger reality is that collective bargaining for government workers is not a God-given or .
constitutional right. It is the result of the growing union dominance inside the Democratic Party during
the. middle ofthe last century. John Kennedy only granted it to federal workers in 1962 and Jerry Brown.
to California workers in 1978. Other states, including Indiana and Missouri, have taken away.collective
bargaining rights for public employees in recent years; and some 24 states have'either limited it or
banned it outright.' ' . . . . ..
And for good reason. Public unions have a monopoly position that gives them undue bargaining power..
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Their campaign cash-i-collected via mandatory dues-also helps to elect the politicians who are then
supposed to represent taxpayers in negotiations with those same unions. The unions sit, in effect, on
both sides ofthe bargaining, table. This is why such famous political friends of the working man as
Franklin Roosevelt and Fiorello La Guardia opposed collective bargaining for government workers,
even as they championed private unions: ..
***
.
The battle of Mad Town is a seminal showdown over whether govermnent union power can be tamed,
. '
and overall govermnent reined in. The alternative is higher taxes until the middle class is picked clean
. and the U.S. economy is no longer competitive. Voters said in November that they want reform, and Mr.
Walker is trying to deliver. We hope Republicans hold.firmand that the people of Wisconsin
understand that this battle is ultimately about their right to self-government ~
Chris Schrimpf
Office ofthe Governor
Email: chris.schrimpf@wisconsin.gov
.~. '.
RE: AP contact on Democratic search Page 1 oB
. From: Newson, Reggie - DOT

Sent: Thursday, February 17, 20111,57: PM
To: Schmitt, Peg - DOT; Werwie, Culien J - GOV; Schrimpf, Chris" GOV
Subject:··RE: AP·conlacl·on·Democralic·searth
. Peg, please refer any other call to the Senate.
Thanks.
Best,
Reggie
From: Schmitt, Peg - DOT

Sent: Thursday, February 17, 20111:52 PM
To: Werwie, Cullen J ~ GOV; Schrimpf, Chris - GOV
Ce: Newson, Reggie: DOT
Subject: RE: AP contact on Democratic search
Sorry-I had placed calls already. Indicated there was no request for State Patrol role.
From: Werwie, Cullen J - GOV.

Sent: Thursday; February 17, 201~ 1:49 PM
To: Schmitt, Peg - DOT
Ce: Newson, Reggie'- DOT
Subject: RE: AP contact on' Democratic search .
Upon further review I'd do what chris said.
www.walker.wi.qov
From: Schrimpf, Chris - GOV .

Sent: Thursday, FebrualY 17, 20111:46PM
To: Werwle, Cullen J - GOV; Schmitt, Peg - DOT
ee: Newson, Reggie - DOT
SUbject: R~: AP contact on Democratic search
Refer these to the senate

RE: AP contact on Democratic search PageZ of J .

To: Schmitt/ Peg - DOT; Schrimpf, Chris - GOV
Cc: Newson, Reggie - DOT
Subject: RE: Apcontact on Democratic search
Sorry I just missed your call. That statement you read is fine.
Thanks Peg, ,.
Cullen WerWie
Press Secreiery
.Office of Governor Scott Walker
Press Office: (608) 267-7303
Email: Cullen. WelWie@WI.Gov
http://www.facebook.com/pagestGovernor-Scott-
. Walker/175220979161l320http://twitter.com/govwalker
wWw.walker.wi.gov

'Sent: Thursday, February.!7, 201112:54 PM
To: Schmitt/ Peg - DOT; Schrimpf/ Chris - GOV; Werwie, Cullen J _·GOV
Cc: Newson/ Reggie"C DOT
Subject: RE: AP contact on Democratlc search
Now have Don Walker from MJS I• • • ) looking for same confirmation

. Sent: Thursday, february 17, 201112:24 PM·
To: Schrimpf/ Chris - GOV; Werwie/ Cullen J - GOV
. Cc: Newson,. Reggie - DOT
.SUbject: AP contact on Democratic search
Todd Richmond from AP (255-3679) is calling toconflrrn what law enforcement agency is
responsible for tracking down Democratic leqlslators per MJS sentencebelow and wants to know if
State Patrol is involved. I'll try to get information, but do you want to provide this response?
·MJS: Law enforcement are now searching for Democratic senators boycottlnq Senate vote ona
Gov. Scott Walker's budget-repair plan Thursday in an attempt to bring the lawmakers to the floor'
to allow Republicans to move forward with action on the bill.
RE: AP contact on Democratic search Page 3 9f3
Peg Schmitt
Office of Public Affairs
Wisconsin Department of Transportation
Phone;
FAX:._
E-mail: peg.schmitt©'?ot.state.wLus
I
RE: AP contact on Democratic search Page 1 of2
Schrimpf, Chris - GOV .
From: Schmitt, Peg" DOT

Sent: Thursday, February 17, 20111:52 PM,
To: Werwie, Cullen J - GOV; Schrimpf, Chris - GOV
Subject: RE: APcontact on Democratic search
Sorry -I had placed calls already, Indicated there was no request for State Patrol role.

Sent: Thursday, February 17, 20111:49 PM.
To: Schmitt, Peg - DOT
SUbject: RE: AP contact on Democratic search
Upon further review I'd do what chris said.
Cullen Werwie
Press Secretary
Office of Governor scott Walker
Press Office: (608) 267-7303
ilierWie@WI.GOV
www.waiker.wi.gov
From: Schrimpf, Chris - GOV.

Sent: Thursday, Februaty 17, 20111:4p PM
To: Werwle, Cullen J ., GOV; Schmitt, Peg - POT.
Cc: Newson, Reggie. - POT ,
SUbject:' Re: AP contact on Democratic search
From: Werwie, Cullen J - GOV'

Sent: Thursday, February 17, 201'1 01:43 PM
To: Schmitt, Peg'- DOT; Schrimpf, Chris - GOV
Cc: Newson, Reggie - DOT .
"
. "
Thanks Peg,
CullenWerwie
Press $ecretary
RE: AP contact on Democratic search Page 2 of2
Office of Governor Scott Walker
Press Office: (608) 267-7303
Emai/:.Cullen. WelWie@WI.Gov .
Iittp://www.facebook..c om/pages/Governor-Scott-
Walker/175220979161820http://twitter.com/govwalker
WWW. walker. wi.gov
Frain: Schmitt, Peg - DOT

Sent: Thursday, February-D', 201112:54·PM
To: Schmitt, Peg - DOTi Schrimpf, Chris - GOVi Werwie, Cullen J - GOV
Ce: Newson, 'Reggie - DOT .
Now have Don Walkerfrom MJS looking for same confirmation
From: Schmitt, Peg - DOr

To: Schrimpf, Chris - GOVi. Werwie, Cullen J " GOV·
Ce: Newson, Reggie - DOT .
Subject: AP contact on Democraticsearch
Todd Richmond from AP C'- Is calling to c'onfirm what law enforcement agency is
responsible for' tracking down Democratic legislators per MJS sentence below and wants to know if
State Patrol is involved. I'll try to get information, but do you want to provide this response? .
- _ . .
NJs: Law enforcement are now searching for Democretic senators boycottihg a. Senate vote on
Gov. Scott Walker's budget-repair pian Thursday in an attempt to bring the lewmekers to the fioor
to ellow Republicens to move forward with action on the biJI.
. l"egSchmitt
Office of PUblic Affairs
Phone:
. FAX:
E-mail: peg.schmltl@dot.state.wi.Us
-e- '
RE: AP contact on Democratic search Page 10f2
Schrimpf, chrla- GOV

Sent: Thursday, February 17, 20111:46 pM
To: Werwie, Cullen J - GOV; Schmitt, Peg - DOT
Cc: ,Newson,.Reggie··.·DOT
, Subject: Re: AP contact on Democratic search
From: Werwie, Cullen J - GOV ,

Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2011 01:43'PM'
To: Schmitt, Peg - DOT; Schrimpf, Chris - GOV
CC,: Newson, Reggie - DOT "
Thanks Peg, .....
Cullen Werwie
, Press Secretary
Press Office: (608) 267-7303 '
Email: Cullen. Werwie@WI.Gov
http://www.facebook.com!pages!Goven;or-Scott-
Walker(175220979161820http://twitter.comfgovwalker
wWw.walker.wi:gov

Sent: Thursday, February 17,201112:54 PM
To: Schmitt; Peg -' DOT; Schrimpf, Chris - GOV; Werwie, Cullen J - GOV
Cc: Newson, Reggie cOOT
Now have Don walker from MJS (~) looking for same confirmation
From: Schmitt; Peg - DOT .

To: schrmpr, Chris - GOV; Werwie, Cullen J - GOV
RE: AP contact on Democratic search Pagc.Z of Z
Cc: Newson, Reggie - DOT·

SUbject: AP contact on Democratic search
Toda Richmond from AP (255-367~) is calling to confirm what law enforcement aqency is
'responsible for tracking down Democratic legislators per MJ5 sentence below and wants to know if
state Patrol Is involved. I'll try to get information, but do you want to provide this response?
MJS: La'w enforcement are now searching for Democratic' senators boycotting a Senate vote on '
Gov. Scott wetker's budget-repair plan Thursday in an attempt to bring the lawmakers to the' floor'
to allow Republicans to move forward with action on the bill.
Peg Schmitt
, Office of Public Affairs
Phone:
E-mail: peg.schmitt@dotslale,wLus
-:' , .~'.
. Schrimpf, Chris> GOV.
From: 'WelWie, Cullen J - GOV
To; Schmitt, Peg - DOT; Schrimpf, Chris" GOV
Sorry J Just missed your call. That statement you read is fine.
Thanks Peg,
Cullen Werwie
Press Secretary
Press Office: (608) 267-7303
Email: Cullen. WelWie@WI.Gov
http:Uwww.facebook.com/pages/Governor-Scott-Waiker/175220979161820http://twitter.com!govwalker
www. walker. wi.(Jov . .

To:.Schmitt, Peg - DaTi Schrimpf, Chris - GOV; Werwie, Cullen J - GOV
Cc: Newson, Reggie - DOT ..
Now have Don Walker from MJS ~• • • • • Iooking for same confirmation
From: Schmitt, Peg. - DOT

.• -.' ·Sent:-'fhursdaYi-Februaryl'l;'201l:12:24H1 - . -.~ _:
To: schrimpf, Chris - GOVi Werwie, Cullen) - GOV

Cc: Newson, Reggie - bOr
<_
Subject: AP contact on Democratic search
Todd Richmond from'AP is calllnq toconflrrnwhat law enforcement agency is responsible for tracking
down Democratic legislators per MJS sentence below and wants to know if State Patrol is' involved. I'll try to get
information, but do you want to provide this response?
\ ' . .
MJS: Law enforcement are now searching for Democratic senators boycotting a Senate vote on Gov. Scott Waiker's
budget-repair plan'Thursday in an attempt to bring the iawmakers to the fioor to ai/ow Republicans to move forward
with action on the bill.
Peg Schmitt
Phone:
FAX:
E-mail: peg.schmitt@dol.state.wLus
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From: Vigue, Caria J • DOA

Sent: Thursday;February 17,2011 1:14 PM
To: Jensen, Jodi - DOA; Werwie, Cullen J • GOV; Schrimpf, Chris - GOV
Subject! Fw>Qall-of the house
From: Richmond, Todd <. " >

To: Vigue, Carla J • DOA; Associate Press, Scott Bauer
sent: Thu Feb 17 13:02:09 2011
SUbject: Call of the-house
Carla:
We're hearing rumors that Capitol Police have refused to go after Democratic senators. Canyou say what role, if
any, Capitol Police have in a call of the house? The general belief here is the State Patrol is responsible for
_tracking lawmakers down, but we don't know for sure.
If Capitol-PO does have a role ina--call-ofthe·ho~se;-canyou'Say·ihhey-have-refused·to-go·after

lawmakers or
have otherwise refused to carry out their duties?
Ap~Pross
Todd Richmond
P.O. Box 962
Madison, WI 53701-0962
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( View} Workers across Wisconsin have continued to pour into Madison today to protest Gov.
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Wis. Gov.'Scott Walker 'On the Record'

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Brewer) is counterclaiming (suing ... Get Greta's daily update, .,.
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Democratic Senators hold up budget bill by hiding from Capitol

Milwaukee Sma]1 Business Times . .
Scott Walker's budget repair bili today, but at the last ininute, the Democrats in the Senate chose
not to .show up for the session, leaving the chamber.without a quorum and putting the proposal in
at least temporary limbo. Twenty Senators are needed to ..•
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Paul Rvan Wisconsin protests Egypt

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Scott Walker's budget plan to the pro-democracy movement in Egypt· Ryan, a Republican from
Janesville, made his comments on MSNBC's Morning Joe program. In the Wisconsin state capital,
teachers and labor union supporters swarmed the Senate chambers ...
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Walker budget proposal calls for nearly a billion in cuts to schools

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The School Boards' Association says Governor Scott Walker will propose $900 dollars less in
general state school aid for the next two years. MADISON - While unions are upset about the -
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Wisconsin'public employees stage second day of protests
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ONe playing role in Wisconsin protests

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Hundreds rally against Walker's bill at UWcEC

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. Scott Walker that wouid curb state.workers' coilective barqalnlnq rights. Speakers took turns
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Cc: Newson, Reggie - DOT -
Now have Don Wal~er from MJS"~ looking for same confirmation
From: Schmitt, Peg" DOT

Sent:'Thursday, February 17, 2011.12:24 PM
To: Schrimpf, Chris - GOVi Werwie, Cullen J - GOV
Todd Richmond from AP _ is calling to con"Fi;m what law enforcement agency Is responsible for tracking
down Democratic legislators per MJS sentence below and wants to know if State PatrolIs involved. I'll try to get
Information, but do you want to provide this response? .
MJS: Law enforcement are now searching for Democratic senators boycotting a Senate vote on Gov. Scott Walker's
budget-repair plan Thursday in an attempt to bring the lawmakers to the floor to allow Republicans to move forward
with action on the bill.
Peg.Schmit!
Wisco~sin De t of Transportation
Phone:
FAX: .
E-mail: peg.schmitl@dotstate.wi.us
.' . " - ".. - .~. ~ '. " ...
·1

To: Schrimpf, Chris - GOV; Werwie, Cullen J - GOV .
Todd Richmond from AP ( ~ is caliing to confirm what law enforcement agenCy is responsible for tracking
down Democratic legislators per MJS sentence below and wants to know if State Patrol is involved. I'll try. to get
information, but do you want to provide this response?
MJS: Law enforcement are now searching for Democratic senators boycotting a Senate vote on Gov. Scott Walker's
budqet-repelr pian Thursday in an attempt to bring the lawmakers to the floor to allow Republicans to move forward
with action on the blll. .
Peg Schmitt
Office of Pubiic Affairs
Phone: 608-266·7744
FAX: 608-266-7186
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From WisPolitics;r;om ..,
-- Republicans Issued a call of the house this morning in an attempt to bring back at least enough lawmakers for a
quorum for a final vote on the guv's budget repair bill.
Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgeraid said he was caught"off-guard that Dems refused to come to the floor.this
morning for a quorum.He said Republicans would wait until at least one Dem. could be found to proceed..
With a 19-14 majority, Republicans need 20 members present for a quorum.
"Clearly they just deoided tocheok-out today,"·F1tzgeraldsaid.
Fitzgerald. said at some pointrif needed, Republicans will use the State Patrol to round up Democrats to bring
them to the floor. . .
There's a tense scene inside and out of the Senate to begin the day. Protesters jammed the hallway sometimes
banging on the outer Senate doors and chanting ,"Shut it .down."
Members of the Capitol Police, State Patrol and DNR stood.guard at the Senate doors and wandered the hallway
just outside the chamber. '-,:.
Following a roll call, members-of the public began to chant "Freedom. Democracy. Unions," over and over,
drowning out Senate President Mike Ellis. Ellis continued despite the chants until Fitzgerald asked five Senators
to rise and declare a call of the house. .
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MEDIA
• Todd Richmond with the Assoc. Press and Don Walker with the Milw. Journal Sentinel contacted Peg
Schmitt (OPA) asking if the State Patrol has any role in tracking down missing Democratic state senators. Atter
chscklnq with esp, Peg indicated there had been no request for the State Patrol to play· a role. Robin Colbert
with WIBA radio in Madison spoke with Maj. Dan Lonsdorf (DSP) on the same topic.
,
• Reporters with nt;7 inWausau,.KSTPJn Minneapolis and the Marshfield News spcke.with Capt. Jeff
Frenette (DSP/Eau Claire) regarding a multi-vehicle crash along WIS 29 near Owen this morning. Fog and driver
behavior are likely factors behind three separate crashes involving nine vehicles arid at least one fatality. The
State
, Patrol is investigating
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and reconstructing the crash scenes.
• Laurel Walker with the Milw. Journal Sentinel spoke with Andy Smieja, Bob Gutierrez, Wafa Elqaq and Mic·aela
Morin (SE Region) regarding the 1-94 East-West repaving project. Discussed tlie project limits and directions of
work in each county, the M?rch 1st start date for long-term lane closures on the freeway, and that east-bound
lanes in Milwaukee County are scheduled for 2012 due to Mitchell Interchange construction coordination.
• Jeff with WTAQ.radio:in.Gr~enBay spoke with Michael Panosh (BaTS) regarding a grant,funding·an OWl law
enforcement initiative in Brown County.
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in an interview today with the Journal Sentinel about Gov. Walker's push to curtail the collective
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John Boehner: I Stand With WI Gov. Scott Walker

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, "Republicans in Congress - and reform-minded GOP governors like Scott Walker,
, John Kasich [OHj and Chris Christie [NJ] - are darinq to speak the truth about the
dire fiscal 'challenges Americans face at all levels of government, and daring to,
commit... '
Wis; Gov. Walker calls Democrat boycott a 'stunt'

WRAL.com
.Scott Walker to meet with them to discuss concessions after three straight days of protests that'
brought tens of thousands of people to the Capitol bUilding. Walker says Democrats can offer
amendments to change the bill and talk with him, ... , '
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Oems Expand Organizing Effort In Midwest Labor Protests

Huffington Post
SC,ottWalker's effort to strip collective-bargaining rights from the state's public-employee unions,
President Barack Obama's campaign organization is mobilizing its followers in Ohio and Indiana,
where similar measures are being considered ....
Photos, video: Bay Port students walk out to protest budget bill
Green Bay Press Gazette
Scott Walker's proposed budget repair bill, which would eliminate collective bargaining for most
public workers. Students carrying signs with slogans such as "Stop the attack on workers rights,"
walked in a massive Ihie from the school to Bay View ...
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Speaker Boehner praises Wis. Gov's"Courageous Action," Rips President's ...

ABC News (blog)' , '
Speaker of the House John Boehner today credited Wisconsin's Republican Governor Scott
Walker for taking "courageous action" and "dar[ng to speak the truth" about his state's financial
difficulties and ripped President Obama for criticizing Walker's '"
, BREAKING NEWS: Walker warns 12000 could be laid off if bUdget bill fails:
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Scott Walker said late Thursday between 10000 and 12000 local and state workers could be laid
"'offunless'his-'budget repair' billwins passage, Speaking for sboutze minutes at a 4:45 prn news
conference' amid the protests of thousands inside and outside ...
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Walker: Willingto talk to Democrats

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (blog)
Scott Walker said Thursday he was Willing to talk to Democrats oveer the impasse on his
proposed cutsIn public employee bargaining rights, But he also said the Democrats, who left the
state Thursday in a bid to delay action on Walker's measure, .;.
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400 Holmen student could face punishment

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. Holmen, WI· (wxoW) - Oil Wed'nesday, News 19 told you thatHotrnen High School studentswere
aliowed to,protest GovernorScott Walker's proposal without punishment if a parent calledthe
school and excused them from class-News 19" spoke with Principal Dr....
University students and staff walk out of class to protest bill

WEAU-TV 13'
. Studentsand staff at UiN-Eau Claire are taking part in a second day of walk-outs in protest of
Govern Scott Walker's budget bill. Thursday, around 10 in the morning, students and staff walked
out of classes and gatherecl. on the campus mall. ...
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Hoffa Praises Wisconsin Demonstrators

PR Newswire (press release) ' .
Scott Walker's budget proposal. "It's inspiring to see middle-class workers coming together to say
they've had enough of this one-sided class war," Hoffa said, "Government workers didn't cause
Wisconsin's budget problems and they don't deserve to be ...
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. Intense protests coritinued in Wisconsin 'on Thursday as state lawmakers prepared to.vote on
Governor Scott Walker's controversial budget bill, which would strip most public workers of nearly
a,1I union bargaining rights, Walker's "budget repair bill" ...
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Hundreds stage union-rights rally at UWM campus
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel . . . .
ScottWalker's budget repair bill. The raliy, organized by the Students for a DemocraticSociety,
W1;lS one of a-dozen at UW campuses around the state, said Matt Guidry, communications director
for the United Council of UW Students in Madison....
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Opponents'of Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker's budget repair bill march around
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demonstrations Wednesday, February 16,2011. (AP PhotolWisconsin State Journal,
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Scott Walker announced his plans to replace democratic rights with autocratic controls. The need
.... -forfruqailtyisunquestloned; it is the emergence of unnecessary, mean-spirited proposals aimed
not at the deficits, but <;lirectly at public sector workers '" . .
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University of Wisconsin-Madison
Scott Walker Kicks off the process of crafting the two-year budqet while addressing a more than
$3 billion deficit with his budget address on Tuesday, Feb. 22. UW-Madison has a number of
experts who can discuss the speech and Waiker's proposals. ... .
Kudlow's Money Politic$

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Scott Walker's budget cuts. The.teachers union is going on strike in-Milwaukee and elsewhere.
They ought to be fired'. Think Reagan PATCO in 1981. Think Calvin. Coolidge police strike in 1919.
oovernor Walker is facing a $3.6 billion .budget defiCit, '" . .
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Wisconsin Lawmakers Flee to Rockford to AV6id Vote'

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changes for city workers. For the third day in a row, protesters took to tile streets and the capitol
lawn to show their opposition to his plan ....
WKBT News 8 - La Crosse, WIChe'ryl Hancock announces run for 94th Assembly
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leaving the.94th Assembly seat open. Hancock and La.Crosse County Board Chair Steve Doyle
are the two democrats to have announced they are running for the, seat."..: .. . .
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ScottWalker's budget repair bill. I've reported on school board members and state and district
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From WisPofitics.com ...
-- Gov. Scott Walker .is calling on Senate Oems to come back tothe Capitol. But Sen. JOn,
. .Erpenbachone of the Derns who left tile state rather than tale up'Walker's budget repair bill,
said.he and his colleagues want Republicans to agree on changes to the legislaiion first.
"We have time," Erpenbach said .
•- Walker said 'at a.late afternoon press conference that he's been ';hard' at work aliday"
,and urged "the state Senate to show up and do their jobs as well." '
Walker said the, protesters outside his office "have ~very right to.be heard. But we need to .
, makesure they're not drowning out the voices of the millions of taxpayers of Wisconsin:" '
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The guv 'said he would be willing to talk With Oems about the bill "- but only if they were at
work. He said they also had the right to propose amendments to the bill and seek to get their
colleagues
.. on board. with their desired
. '. chanqes.
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"They can't do those things unless they show up for work. The people of this stilts pay I,lS to.
I show up for our Jobs," Walker said. . ''
Walker predicted after Oems "do their stunt for a day or two"they'li come back and do their
jobs. . '. . , ' .. . ..
-- Senate Minority Lead~r Mark Miller said Oems who have left thestatear~ not all in one
, place and will likely be on the move as they continue their protest of the guv's budget
repair bill. -
. Miller wouldn't say where he was and said lie hasn'tyetreached out to: Senate Republicans to .:
talk about a possible resolution. "
He said Dems wanted to let the impact of their actions sink in at the Capitol and give the media
and public more time to delve into the "so-called budget repair bill."
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,He and his caucus remain concerned largely over the guv's aim to strip public employees of
.almost all collective bargaining rights as well as Walker's call to give his administration
"unilateral" powers to change the' MA program.
Miller said Oems will monitor developments before deciding what to do next,
"This is Wisconsin. We should sit down and talk to each other," Miller said, adding the guv
hasn't shown signs he's listening to opponents. "We've figured out how to do that over
generations. You can't throw that away lightly."
-- Senate Oems' decision to flee the Capitol halted the Senate this morning, leaving ,
Republicans one lawmaker short of. the 20 they need for 'a quorum to allow a final vote
on the bill.
Following a call of the house in the Senate, Sergeant at Arms staff searched Dern offices for
-the lawmakers. As of late this afternoon, no decislons had been made on whether to send
State Patrol outside the Capitol to begin looking for lawmakersand bring them back to the
Capitol, accordirig to a spokesman for Senate'"Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald.
Sources-teld WisPolitics {his afternoon-at least some of the Oems were in Rockford,1I1. But the
sources ~aid they may be on the move before long.
-- Laura Rose, deputydirector of the Legislative Council, said the state constitution
-allows each house to compel the attendance of absent members under penalties that
. 'each house can provide. Any such penalty would be covered by Senate rules, and Rose said
she was unaware of any penalties included in those rules. '
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Rose said the State Patrol doesn't have jurisdiction outside the state and there would be no
extradition issue for the missing lawmakers because there's no criminal violation involved in
their-absence. " . " , ,.
, Asked how,long Oems were willing to stay away, Erpenbach demurred. He said Republicans
should look at how the proposed changes are tearing the state apartand realize a different
path is needed. " "
"This isn't anything that we do lightly at ~II. This isn't a prank. This isn'tajoke. this is'
Democrats standing together saying slowdown." '
-. The Senate Oems' absence recalled a story from theTexas Legislature.
More than 50 Democratic legislators fled to neighboririgOklahoma for four days in a dispute
overa redistricting bill, ' '
See a Houston Chronicle story from May 2003:

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpllspecial/03/legislatLlre/1912638.html.
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· . -- Going into today, the plan had been for the Senate to go first before the Assembly-
.takes
. up the .bill.
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" A spokesman for Assembly Speaker Jeff Figgerald, R-Horicon, said nothing has changed on
that front at this point.
-- The Department of Administration estimates today's crowd swelled to 25,000, almost

twice its estlmate of yesterday's crowd. .
DOA pegged the number of protesters outside the buildinq at 20,000 with another 5,000 inside..
DOA also announced the first arrests this week, saying nine people were taken into custody.
The agency didn't immediately respond to a requestfor details on those arrests.
Dane County Sheriff Dave Mahoney said law enforcement officers from his department,
Capitol Police, DNR, UW-Madison, State Patrol,Madison, Fitchburg, Sun Prairie, Monona,
Oregon; Stoughton and McFarland were assisting with keeping the peace.
He said today's arrests were mostly for disorderly conduct and citations were issued.
· Mahoney said-he instructed his-efficers-te exercise "extreme measures. of tolerance."

. : :
· "What w~'ve seen here is probably the most dramatic exercise of the Democratic process,"
Mahoney said. . .
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' .•-.A flier was handed out to protesters in the Capitol, advising them of what to do in the
event of law enforcement officers clearing the building.
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The flier says protesters who don't lawfully exit the building would likely be charged with
'. disorderly conduct, details the process of potential criminal proceedings and advises protesters
that they don't have to answer. questions.
-- Wisconsin's U.S. senators came down on opposite sides of the issue.
U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Oshkosh, said he stands "ready to do anything I can to assist the
men and women in the.Wisconsin Assembly and Senate."
. "Showing this kind ofleadership deserves our respect," Johnson said. "I'm encouraging the
citizens of Wisconsin to also voice their support for those people showing leadership and
courage. They are doing what has to be done and they should be commended."
. U.S: Sen. Herb Kohl, D-Milwaukee, said public workers deserve fair treatment and "their
. interests should be taken into consideration as these issues are resolved."
"I'm concerned about the well-being of their families and hope these matters can be settled in
a respectful and balanced way," Kohl said.
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-- Building a Stronger Wisconsin, which has backed Oems in recent elections, today
.. relElased .~. pQII tt)gtf9.und a r:n.~j9.~iW .pt rEl~p.Qn.dElntl:l.opP()l>eJ.!Wguy'l; .l:!!.tq9..~tx~.plli.rJ~ill,..
One-third ofthos.e surveyed last night said they backed Walker's proposal to increase how
much public employees pay for their health care and pensions .:
Almost 27 percent said they b~liev~d public employees should pay more for their health care .
and retirement benefits, but Walker's plan went too far. Another 35 per.cent said they opposed'
the proposal as "an attack on unions and Wisconsin workers."
The survey of 602 voters had a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points.
See the press release and poll: . .

http://w\Nw.wispolitics.com/1006/BSW POLL PRESS RELEASEJEB 17 2011.pdf
. -- The state GOP is using the. protests over Walker's bill as a fundraising tool.
RPW Executive Director Mark Jefferson issued an e-mail this afternoon saying: "Governor
.. Walker's budget repair bill is under attack! Liberal film maker Michael Moore has called on
union activists' to "shut down Wisconsin" and to recall Governor Walker. Thousands of far lett
special interest-qroups 'and union radicals are protesting the Capitol parading signs which
compare:our Governor to Hitler. And just lasfnight, even President Obama called the bill an
"assault on unions." '. .
Added Jefferson: "The Republican Party of Wisconsin needs your contribution today to support
.Governor Walker. ..'.(lt) will provide us the tools needed to combat the union's strong-armed'
.tactics."
Follow tonight's developments in the. Budget Blog: . . ,,' ,.' .~. " • F ... ~ ~ . ~ ... : ....,... ,~.~ -, .
. -- Tributes to Bill Bablitcti are pour.ing in after the former-Supreme Court

, justice died, . ,
. Dane County Exec Kathleen Falk today hailed Bablitch as a particularly skilled and articulate
. ··environmentalle.ader in the state Senate and a highly respected jurist and legal scholar.
.-. , Bablitch passed away last night at his winter home in Hawaii, He was 69...
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Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett today-endorsed Chris Abele for Milwaukee County... '
exec.
See more:
http://www.wispolitics.comlindex.iml?Article=227272
From WisOpinion.com ...
· --Bloggers are weighing in on Gov. ScottWalker's budget repair bill, the decision by
: teachers to skip school, to protest in the Capitol and the political implications of it all.
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.OTHER HEADLINES .
· wiSN: WiscoAsin Senste Democrats-leave Madison ......

htlp:llwww.iNisn.com/news/26896913/detail.htmI
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AP: Wis. police cuff Capitol protester
htlp:llhost.madison,com/news/state and regional/article 1f62bd97-d219-5d91-bcc2-
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AP: Protesters cheer Wis. Assembly Democrats

,:,,"htll3:lfheslomadison.com/news/state· and regional/articlec1407c22-91.87-5341-ac7b-.
516195gedd6e.html
Wisconsin State Journal: UW-Madison tuition would need to rise 26% over 2 years to offset
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WRN: Rural school reform requires reshift in thinkinq

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Appleton Post-Crescent: Former state Supreme Court Justice Bablitch dies

http:Hwww.postcrescent.com/article/20110217/APC01 01/11 0217085/Former-state-Supreme-
Court-Justice-Bablitch-dies
CNN: Showdown over a government shutdown .

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shutdown-battle-Ioomsl
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From: Evenson, Tom - GOV

Gover-norScott Walker - Television February 24

Manitowoc Herald Times Reporter

Racme Journal Times

Wis. to end debate,

Wall,e!"" Bill a Pass

Leadership Shlilldis Wisconsin G')Vt,rn,or

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approved in earlv-mor-ntng vote

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School districts prepare layoffs ahead

Semite gives preliminary approv,,1 to photo ID hill

Risser says 14 Dem back today'

Schultz compromise still best

Madison School District orenarinu hlII'<I"edls of teacher

Lawmakers approve rule that Capitol

Koch vow to in Wis"or",in

Budget bill colIld cost Sheboygan$1.4M transit

Health care costs at heart

Republicans outside Wi,sconsin soften tough talk on unions

Assembly away urnor; "'i"h'ts

Green Bay Press-Gazette

Walker says he'll Madison

shows Walker not about to budge

Stevens Point mayor delivers to Madison

Nationwide Insurance to lay Qff 40 in Wausau

Moore, Dorothy J - GOV

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WEEKLY HEADLINE GOAL: GOVERNOR WALKER'S BUDGET LAYS FOUNDATION FOR

Daily Headline Goal: Governor Walker Introdnces Biennial Budget

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Milwaukee city attorney claims W"lk"r's bill i~ Imc'm~titutional

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Senate Democrats call on debt r-cstruetur-ina

Constttutionallv questionabfee DOA

Sen. Dale Schultz mum on for budget reuatr

budget local gover-nments m-euare

is,,,!'.sin Gov. Scott out of Capitol

Senate Democrats InUSt:~Om~

Our Drop policy changes from budget

Murricipafifies, schools likely targets of Gov. Scott .. In••,,,.

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_. Many Wisconsin schools, including many in southern Wisconsin, are closed.

Madison schools are closed for the third straight day.