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From: GOV Press

Sent: Monday, February 21, 20111 :50 PM
To: GOV Press
S'llbJect: TimellneofUnion & Senate Democrats BudgetRelated Events
February 21, 2011

For Immediate Release
Contact: Cullen Werwie, 608-267-7303
Timeline of Union & Senate Democrats Budget Related Events
Madison-Today Governor Walker's office released a timeline 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 is-Senate Democrats ram the bill through the Legislature, without a public hearing.
(http://legis.wisconsin.gov/2009/data/SB66hst. htm I)
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 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 Bell, executive director of AFSCME calls Walker, "master of the plantation and
we're supposed to be his slaves."
([1ttp://www.channeI3000.com/politics/26049415/detail.html)
December 10-The contract negotiations, which were notcompleted in the first 17 months ofthe
contract period, were suddenly finalized.
(http://www.channeI3000.com/politics/26114651/detail.html)
December 16-State employee contracts fail to pass the Legislature. Marty Bell, executive director of
AFSCME calls a Legislator "not a prostitute, a whore. W-H-O-R-E."
(http://host.madison.com/wsj/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-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 Democratsflee 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 $1,91S 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 lS-Public employee unions claim to support having their members pay 5.8% a pension
contribution and 12.6% ofthe 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.
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/SSDC/Home.html)
Along with this timeline Governor Walker's spokesman, Cullen Werwie, released the following
statement:
Senate Democrats need to come backto work the jobs that they are getting paid to do: 24'hours was
enough time for them to increase taxes by $1 billion doilars 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-avoidingdebate 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 fiil their campaign coffers, Senate Democrats should do their
job.
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Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2011 2:51 PM
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Subject: Walker Calis DernocratLeqlslators Back Ihto State
February 17, 2011

Walker Calls Democrat legislators Back Into State

" "
Madison-Today Governor Walker released the following statement:
Out of respect for the institution of the Legislature and the democratic process, I am calling on Senate
Democrats to show up to work today, debate legislation and cast their vote. Their actions by leaving
the state and hiding from voting are disrespectful to the hundreds of thousands of public employees
who showed up to work today and the millions of taxpayers they represent.
Governor Walker will be holding a press conference at 4:45p.m. CSTtoday in the Governor's
. Conference room to discuss the day's events. It will only be open to credentialed members ofthe
media.
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'-- In protest of the budget repair bill that will strip public union workers of almost all of their
collective bargaining rights, Senate Democrats walked away from a floor session.
Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald said Oems are refusing to come to the floor to debate
and vote on the bill.
Fitzgerald said at some point, if needed, Republicans will use the State Patrol to round up
. Democrats to bring them to the floor.
Senate President Mike Ems is calling the roll, but no Derns are present.
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-- 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 budqet repair bill:
Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald said he was caught off-guard that Oems refused to come to the floor this
morning for a quorum. He said Republicans would wait until at least one Oem could be found to proceed.
With a 19-14 majority, Republicans need 20 members present for a quorum.
"Clearly they just decided to check out today," Fitzgerald said.
. Fitzgerald said at some point, if 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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Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2011 11:40 AM
To: GOV Press
Subject: I'CYM!: Indiana Democrats Flee Their House
ICYMI: Democrats across the country are fleeing rather than casting votes
http://www.indystar.com/article/2011 0222/NEWS/11 0222004/House-Democrats-flee-lndiana-

stop-votes?odyssey=modjbreakingltextjllldyStar.com
House Democrats are leaving the state rather than vote on anti-union legislation, The
Indianapolis Star has learned.
A source said Democrats are' headed to Illinois, though itwas possible some also mIght go to
Kentucky. They need to go to a state with a Democratic governor to avoid being taken into
police custody and returned to Indiana.
The. House was. came into session this morning,.with..only. two. of the 40 Democrats.present,
Those two were needed to make a motion, and a seconding motion, for any procedural steps
Democrats would want to take to ensure Republicans don't do anything official without
quorum.
With only 58 legislators present, there was no quorum present to do business. The House
needs 67 of its members to be present.
Rep. Terri Austin, D-Anderson, told House Speaker Brian Bosma, R-Indianapolis, that
Democrats "continue to be in caucus" to discuss potential amendments. to several bills.
Bosma said he was "flummoxed," adjoured until noon, and labor union members watching in
the gallery and hallway outside cheered the work stoppage.
Today's fight was triggered by Republicans pushing. a bill that would bar unions and
companies from negotiating a contract that requires non-union members to kick-in fees for
representation. It's become the latest in what is becoming a national fight over Republican
attempts to eliminate or limit collective bargaining .
. House Minority Leader B. Patrick Bauer, D-South Bend, "has taken a page out of the
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Wisconsin Senate playbook apparently" by keeping his caucus in hiding, Bosma said. "They
are shirking the job that they were hired to do."
In Wisconsin, Senate Democrats have fled to Illinois to deny Republicans the quorum they
need to pass legislation limiting collective bargaining for many public employees.
Asked at what point he would call in the Indiana State Police to attempt to round up the
Democrats, Bosma said: "We'll see how the day goes."
Gov. Mitch Daniels had said he supports the policy his party is pursuing in this legislation, but
said earlier that this is not the year to do it with so many other critical legislation in the works,
including his education reform agenda.
Bosma said he spoke to Daniels and said the governor is "very supportive of our position to
come in and try to do our work. He was not pleased that the Democrats weren't here to do
their work. And like me is just waiting to see how the course of the day proceeds."
Austin told reporters that "it doesn't matter where they (Democrats) are at this point. What
matters is that they're trying to figure out a way to save the state from this radical agenda."
Asked if they were in the state, Austin said only: "They're working hard."
The last time a prolonged walk-out happened in the Indiana legislature was in the mid-1990s,
when Republicans were in control and tried to draw new legislative district maps, eliminating a
district that likely would have been a Democrat one, in the middle of the decade. Democrats
won that standoff, staying away several days until Republicans dropped the plan.
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Sent: Saturday, February 19, 201112:18 PM
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Subject: Senate Dems should come to Madison
February'19,2011
Forlmmediate Release
Madison-Today Governor Walker's spokesman, Cullen Werwie, released the following statement:
Senator Erpenbach, Senator Miller, 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 situation is for the
Democratic Senators to stop shirking their responsibilities and debate the bill in Madison. We continue
to call on them to come to Madison and do their jobs.
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From: Murray, Ryan M- GOV

Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2011 3:09 PM
To: Hogan, John - LEGIS
Subject:' FW: Collective Bargaining is a Fiscal Issue: Part 2
Ryan Murray
Director of Policy and Legislative Affairs
Office of the Governor
Mai/F 608-266-1212 ,
Email: r.murray@wisconsin.gov
From: GOV Press

Sent: Tuesday, February 22,2011 9:05 AM
To: GOV Press
Subject: Collective Bargaining Is a Fiscal Issue: Part 2
February 22, 2011

Collective Bargaining is a Fiscal Issue: Part 2

Madison-Today Governor Walker's office released more specific examples to show how collective
bargaining fiscally impacts government.
Example #1 Paid-Time Off for Union Activities

In Milwaukee County alone, because the union collectively bargained for paid time off, fourteen
employees receive salary and benefits for doing union business. Of the fourteen, three are on full-time
release for union business. Milwaukee County spent over $170,000 in salary alone for these employees
to only participate in union activities such as collective bargaining.
Example #2 Surrender of Management Rights

Because of collecting bargaining, unions have included provisions in employee contracts that have a ,
direct fiscal impact such as not allowing management to schedule workers based on operational needs
and requiring notice and approval by the union prior to scheduling changes. As county executive,
Walker attempted to reduce work hours based on budget pressures and workload requirements by .
instituting a 35-hour work week to avoid layoffs, which the union opposed: Additionally, government
cannot explore privatization of functions that could save taxpayers money.
Along with this release Governor Walker's spokesman, Cullen Werwie, released the following
statement:
Urfortunately for the millions of taxpayers who are currently paying these Senators' salaries and
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benefits, Senator Julie Lassa and her 13 colleagues decided to take a 6 day vacation to Illinois to get 'to
know a lot of riw fellow caucus members.'
While Senate Democrats are getting acquainted with each other in another state, Governor Walker is in
Wisconsin working to balance the state budget. Senators should return to Wisconsin and make their
voice heard through the democratic process by casting their votes..
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Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2011 5:10 PM
Subject: (WisPolitics) WED PM Update -- 23' February 2011
WisPolitics PM Update
23 February 2011
From WisPolitics.com ..•
-- The Assembly could be in for another long night.
So far, the Assembly has worked through only a couple dozen amendments in the 30-plus
hours since the floor session began yesterday. Oems say they have a hundred more, and an
attempt between the GOP leaders and Oems to reach a compromise on an end time for the
session fizzled.
Republicans have successfully shelved each proposed Oem change, including one this
afternoon to wipe outa provision to sell state-run power plants in a no-bid process.
Oems tried to tie the provision to the Gov. Scott Walker's alleged links to the Koch brothers.
"Something doesn't smell right," Rep. Mark Pocan, O-Madison, said.
But Rep. Robin Vos said if the Oems are going to make allegations, they should offer proof. He
pointed to a statement from Koch Industries earlier this week saying the corporation has no
interest in acquiring state-owned power plants.
"There is no conspiracy," Vos, R-Rochester, said.
Follow developments in the Budget Blog:
http://budget.wispolitics.com/
-- Walker said today there is "absolutely nothing" to the suggestion he's proposing the
sale of state-owned power plants as payback to campaign contributors.
Questions about Walker's alleged ties tobrothers,Oavicil,anEl- Charles,' Koch·intensitiedteday

after the guv was recorded in a prank call speaking with someone he thought was Oavid Koch.
Koch Industries, which has holdings in Wisconsin that include Georgia-Pacific paper mills in
Green Bay, donated $43,000 to Walker's campaign through its PAC, and some are now raising
questions if the energy company could benefit from a provision in the budget repair bill .
allowing the sale of state-owned power plants without soliciting competitive bids.
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Walker told reporters the idea was originally proposed by his former Assembly GOP colleague
Mark Duff and promised an open process on any sale. .
"We're only going to move forward on this if it's good for the taxpayer and good for the
ratepayers in the state," Walker said.
Koch Industries also issued a statement yesterday saying it had no interest in purchasing any
state-owned plans in Wisconsin.
See the Koch statement:

http://www.wispolitics.com/index.iml?Article=227813
-- The guv also addressed questions over the prank call.
On the recording, the guv can be heard saying he has considered bringing in agitators to rile
up protesters. But Walker said the tape clearly shows he rejected that option and said it was
one of many ideas that have been suggested to him by staff, lawmakers and residents around
the state.
"The thing I said are things I've said publicly all along," he said.
*Listen to the news conference:

http://www.wispolitics.com/1006/11023Walker.mp3 ..
*Listen to Brett Hulsey's comments after he took over the guv's podium following Walker's
news conference:
http://www.wispolitics.com/1006/110223Hulsey.mp3
See more on the prank call, including audio:
http://www.buffalobeast.coml?p=5045.·
-- Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald said today he's never discussed with the guv
the possibility of trying to dupe Demsto return to the Capitol under the guise of
negotiations.
During a prank call with someone posing to be conservative businessman David Koch, Walker
says he thought about trying to trick Senate Oems to return to the Capitol. He also said he
considered planting agitators among protesters in the Capitol to stir up trouble.
"I've never spoken with the governor about that," Fitzgerald told reporters today when asked
about reports on the call.
. -- Fitzgerald, R-Juneau, also dismissed a proposal from Sen. Dale Schultz to amend the
guv's budget repair bill to sunset some provisions as nothing more than political cover
for back home.
Fitzgerald said Schultz, R-Richland Center, wasn't necessarily being disingenuous. But he
suggested some times conversations people have in the caucus are different from those they
have with people in the district:
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"He's in a tough spot," Fitzgerald said.
Fitzgerald acknowledged some members would like another option than what's before them.
But he insisted they were "rock solid" in their support for the bill and said he expected Schultz
would join his Republican colleagues in voting for passage when the bill comes to a final vote.
The GOP controls the chamber, 19-14, so Schultz and two other Republicans would have to
join Oems in a compromise vote.
Listen to Fitzgerald's Q&A:

http://www.wispolitics.com/1006/110223SFitzgerald.mp3
-- The Senate quickly finished its calendar today, voting 19-0 to repeal requirements that
law enforcement collect racial data from traffic stops and unanimously supporting a
resolution praising the Wisconsin Badgers football team.
-- Fitzgerald announced this afternoon that Senate Republicans will no longer recognize
absent Oems who call in to participate in committee hearings.
Fitzgerald made the announcement after Senate Org approved scheduling voter 10 for a vote
tomorrow and dipped the bill in Finance.
See a memo Sen. Jon Erpenbach requested on the fiscal impact of the amended voter 10 bill:
http://www.wispolitics.comI1006/20·1.1 02 22 Erpenbach.pdf·
-- Republicans continue to push. ahead with other.ltems.on.thele agenda.·
The Joint Committee for Review of Administrative Rules has scheduled an exec session
Tuesday on the wind farm siting rules.
See the hearing notice:

http://committeeschec;lule.legis.state.)NLus/files/Hearing Notices/11-0;3-01-1 030-2011JAOMc
15196.html
-- The Joint Committee on Legislative Organization chairs have sent a ballot to

members asking them to sign off on a policy that would prohibit anyone other than
a
legislators or their staff from being in legislative office or hearing room between the
hours of 6 p.m. and 8 a.m.
Assembly Minority Leader Peter Barca, a member of the committee, brought the ballot up on
the floor of the Assembly and asked the GOP leadership Why it's being proposed. There hadn't
yet been an answer to his question. It would take effect Feb. 26.
-- A D.C.-based watchdog group has requested that the Government Accountability

Board investigate whether Walker broke state laws by sending state troopers to look for
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absent Democratic senators.
. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington says Wisconsin law prohibits "troopers
from taking part in any dispute between an employer and employee over wages, hours, labor,
or working conditions -- the subject of the governor's bill."
The group also referenced.the.recent appointment of Stephen Fitzgerald, the father of GOP
legislative leaders Scott Fitzgerald and Jeff Fitzgerald, to head the Wisconsin State Patrol.
"Superintendent Fitzgerald should be devoting his time to the WSP's stated mission enforcing .
traffic laws, helping motorists in need, inspecting trucks, school buses and ambulances and
assisting local law enforcement agencies with natural disasters and civil disturbances, not
illegally intervening in disputes. at.his, son's behest," said CREW Executive Director Melanie
Sloan in a statement. "Would Sen. Fitzgerald have had the nerve to suggest the WSP get
involved if his father wasn't running the agency? And wouldn't a more independent
superintendent have refused the request?".
See the press release:

http://bit.ly/fcyjxE
-- The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee announced today it's targeting

GOP U.S. Reps. Sean Duffy, Reid Ribble and Paul Ryan for backing education cuts to
support subsidies for oil companies.
The efforts includes robocalls, Web ads and s-malls, the Dem group said.
See DC Wrap for the text of the call targeting Duffy:

http://dc.wispolitics.com/
-- Sen. Glenn Grothman is circulating three bills among his colleagues.
Among the West Bend Republican's proposals: repeal last session's employment
discrimination legislation, change the membership of technical college system boards and
allow certain retailers to sell beer and liquor beginning at 6 a.m.
See more below.
From WisBusiness.com ...
--Gov. Scott Walker and Congo Paul Ryan received a warm reception at today's Business
Day in Madison event at the Monona Terrace convention center.
In his speech, Walker touted the budget repair bill measure that allows union members to
withhold dues.
The guv said "we give them the true freedom of choice .., to decide whether or not they want
those union dues automatically deducted from their payroll, which in many cases is up to a
$1,000 a year, that instead they can keep in their pockets."
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See a report and video of Walker in the Budget Blog; timed at 1:58 p.m.
http://budgef.wispolitics.com/
-- Rep. Paul Ryan drew cheers from a crowd of nearly 1,000 attendees of the WMC's
. Business. Day in. Madison.. when he asserted that "the path to prosperity is through
entrepreneurship" and warned that government spending must be brought under
control and regulations reduced to "release the entrepreneur to be the entrepreneur,"
Ryan also knocked Oem state senators who fled the state to stall a vote on the guv's budget
repair bill.
"I didn't like cap and trade; I didn't like Obama care, I didn't like the stimulus, but I didn't walk
out," he said. "We stayed and did our jobs." .
See more in tomorrow's WisBusiness.com.
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WISN: Walker victim of prank phone call

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WISN: State Senate votes to repeal racial profiling law

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Channel 3000: Local officials organize against governor's bill

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AP: Indiana deputy AG 'no longer employed' after urging cops to shoot Wisconsin protesters
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AP: Governor sets special Assembly election for May 3

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CNN: Fiscal discipline or the end of unions?

http://www.cnn.com/2011/POLlTICS/02/23/unions.futurefindex.html
CNN: Obama drops defense of law against gay marriage

http://www.cnn.comf2011/POLlTICSf02f23fobam·umy.marriagS.lfindex.html
CNN: Obama will speak on Libya

http://www.cnn.com/2011/POLlTICS/02/23/obama.libya/index.html
THURSDAY'S CALENDAR
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Business Events
-- 8 a.m. -- MOSES 22nd annual Organic Farming Conference, La Crosse Center, 300
Harborview Plaza, La Crosse
http://www.mosesorganic.org/conference.html
-- 9 a.m. -- DBA Expansion Symposium, Lambeau Field, Green Bay

http://www.widba.com/2011~-.S.ymILBrocb!-lreJLdl
-- 11:30 a.m. -- The Business Council: Strategic Partnership Luncheon, Italian Community
Center, 631 E. Chicago St., Milwaukee .
http://www. mmac.orgf/index.php?src=events&srctype=detail&category=Ann ual&refno=181
-- 7 p.rn, -- UW Energy Institute presents 'Beyond the Climate Wars,' Fluno Center, Howard
Auditorium, 601 University Ave., Madison
http://www.energy.wisc.eduf?p=3521
Other
-- 8:30 a.m. -- Evidence-Based Health Policy Project Breakfast Briefing, Edgewater Hotel,
Madison
http://wispolitics,C..Qmfin@x.iml?,A,..rtic:le=226264 .
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-- 10 a.m, -- Save BadgerCare Coalition, Medicaid Matters Alliance press conference Penfield
Children's Center, 833 N. 26th St., Milwaukee
http://wispolitics.com/1006/110222 MA Matters.pdf
-- 10:30 a.m. -- Public Service Commission Flambeau River Conference Room, 610 N.
Whitney Way, Madison
http://wispolitics.com/1006/110224 psc ag.pdf
-- 2 p.m. -- PSC telephone hearing, Washburn City Hall, 119 W. Washington Ave., Washburn
http://wispolitics.comlindex.iml?Article=227490
.BILLS CIRCULAtiNG
Sen. Grothman, LRB 0294/1, to require technical college district boards to be comprised of six
business persons, one school district administrator, one elected state or local official and one
additional member
Sen. Grothman, LRB 0322, to repeal 2009 Act 20 regarding employment discrimination
Sen. Grothman, LRB 1044/1, to change the morning closing hours for Class "A" and "Class A"
retailers from 8 a.rn, to 6 a.m.
Sen. Moulton, LRB 1307/1, to streamline regulations for architects, builders, designers, code
officials and other members of the construction industry.
'" Sen. Grothman, LRB 0555/1, to make parking on-the Capitol Square avallaele-tothe public
after 6 a.m. to 6 p.m, work hours
Rep. Pridemore, LRB 1116/1, to clarify the language for failure-tc-yield.traffic-viclations
Sen. Darling and Rep. Kestell, LRB 1007/1, to prohibit Milwaukee Public Schools from
imposing residency requirements on teachers
Sen. Wirch, LRB 047'3, to allow the public sale of the ,executive residence
BILLS INTRODUCED
AB 25, relating to: increasing the credit amount and allowing the transfer of the angel
investment tax credit. Referred to Committee on Jobs, Economy and Small Business.
AB 26, relating to: the use of race-based nicknames, logos, mascots, and team names by
school boards. Referred to Committee on Homeland Security and State Affairs.
AB 27, relating to: requiring political subdivisions to pay health insurance premiums for
survivors of a law enforcement officer who dies, or has died, in the line of duty..Referred to
Committee on Urban and Local Affairs.
AB 28, relating to: reporting of information by nonresident registrants under the campaign
finance law. Referred to Committee on Election and Campaign Reform.
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AB 29, relating to: collective bargaining unit assignments under the State Employment Labor
Relations Act. Referred to Committee on Labor and Workforce Development.
AJR 13, relating to: commending law enforcement officials for keeping order at the capitol.
AB...30" relating tocdeleqation.by a parent, guardian, or legal custodian of a child of"powers

regarding the care and custody of the child by a power of attorney. Referred to Committee on
Children and Families.
AB 31, relating to: allowing retailers the ability to offer discounts equal to the state and local
sales taxes. Referred to Committee on Homeland Security and State Affairs.
SB 21, relating to: authorizing the town of Brookfield in Waukesha County to create a tax
incremental district for a retail project. Referred to Committee on Economic Development and
Veterans and Military Affairs.
SB 22, relating to: creating a Charter School Authorizing Board, Referred to Committee on
Education.
SB 23, relating to: preemption of city, village, town, or county ordinances requiring employers
to provide employees with leave from employment to deal with family, medical; or health
issues. Referred to Committee on Labor, Public Safety, and Urban Affairs.
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From: Murray, Ryan M - GOV ..

Sent: ~. Febru.ary 23, 2011 10:31 AM
To,: ~ Reed, Margaret- DOA
Subject: Fw: Legislative and Policy Update
Forgot to forward this to you last night
From: Kitzman, Nick- GOV

To:· Murray, Ryan M..- GOV
Sent: Tue Feb 22 18:25:07 2011
". SUbject: Legislative and Policy Update
Legislative Update
""'Sent around New York Times article to all GOP members and staff.
http://www.nymnes.com/2011/02/22/us/22union.htm1? r=l&hp
Assembiy Session
o SS AB 11- Budget Adjustment Bill and amendments have' been debated on the Assembly floor most of the
day and will continue into the night.
Senate Session
o Secretary Anderson received final' confirmation; 19-0'

0' SJR 12- commending of the Green Bay Packers passed; 19-0
o SB 9- dairy and livestock farm investment credit passed; 19-0
Senate Committees
o SB 7- Voter ID passed the Senate Transportation Committee as amended; 3-0 (Senator Lazich did not let
Senator Erpenbach vote via phone). Pianned for Thursday's session.
o SB 15- data collection repeal passed the Senate Committee on Public Safety; 4-1 Oem support: Wirch.
Scheduled for tomorrow's floor session.
Legislative Contacts
o Senators Leibham, Darling and Galloway, along witli Representatives A. Ott and Petrowski contacted our
office with concerns of federal funding continuation with the changes of collective bargaining for mass
transit workers.
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Economic Development and Regulatory Reform Team
Commerce
o Met with Graymont Company executives
o Lime manufacturer in Superior, privately-owned
o Would like to be considered as a host site if the governor is visiting Superior
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DOT
o Met with Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers
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o Concerned with motor vehicle franchise contract issues with the dealers
• Retroactive application statute
o Dealers support a bill that is currently being drafted and going to be introduced by Sen. Leibham,
that will get dealers higher reimbursement rates on franchise agreements and adjust the general
terms of the contract agreement
o Sen. Leibham's Office will send the Governor's Office a copy of the drafted legislation when it is
completed
• Transit Aid
o WI Urban and Transit Assoc. legislative representative, Gary Goyke is holding a press conference
on Wednesday to alert the pubhc of the potential cuts in fed. transit funding as a result of Budget
Repair Bill
o Spoke to Tim Fiocchi in Rep. Petrowski's (Chair Assembly Transportation Committee) on the federal
transit issue
. Venture Capital
• Submitted two proposals to the State Budget Office for drafting, both a modified CAPCO and a Fund of
Funds'
DNR
• Spoke with Matt Moroney on a number of items
o Town of Hubbard (Rusk Co.) Digital Flood Insurance Rate Maps (DFIRM)
1. Town took issue with the outcome of DNR/FEMA's maps .
2. Matt said DNR would support them in their appeal to FEMA
o Rainbow Springs Golf Course
1. DNR has not determined what to do With the golf course, there are a number of options they
are considering
2. Could remain a golf course, could be turned into a park! might be sold, might be retained
Human Services and Education Team
Education Meetings .
The Board of Regents is holding an emergency meeting on Friday to discuss the UW-Madison Authority.
Michael attended the DPI monthly meeting with the Educator Effectiveness design team. They reviewed a list of
questions that will need to be addressed in order to implement an effective teacher evaluation system.
Justice and Local Governments Team
Local Governments:
• Wisconsin Rapids Tribune. Local Walker supporters say it's time to make cuts
Verna Bidgood, vice chairwoman of the Wood County RepUblican Party, said she received 40 to 50 e-mails a day
from residents who support Walker's plan.
"We cannot continue to kick the can down the street; things have to be faced," Lippert said. "As for the senators
who left, I think it's an abdication of their responsibilities, I·understand they.feeUh&outcome.might not-be in their
favor, but that's what elections are about, and they have an obligation on the flOor in Madison. "
• The City of Kenosha passed a resolution in opposition to the Budget Adjustment Bill.
Voter ID:
• The Senate committee passed voter ID bill amended to include tribaIID's, a DOT card receipt, a
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passport, or a certificate of nationalization. The amendment creates a 28 day residency requirement to vote
(previously 10), a voter must sign the ballot, and a provisional voter who has no 10 on Election Day has
until Friday.at 4pm after an eiection to provide identification. The amendment also allows DOT to issue
10's at no cost to electors if they request. The amendment also allows voters to vote until spring 2012
without an 10 requirement however they would be given information explaining it would be required in the
future. The initial applicability date was also deleted by the amendment which means it would go into
effect immediately. The amended bill is scheduled for a vote in the Senate on Thursday.
• League of Women Voters of Wisconsin. Opposition to vote on S8-6
• Common Cause Wisconsin. Senate Republicans poised to pass unconstitutional voter 10 legislation'
Justice:
• The Senate committee passed a repeal of traffic stop data reporting requirements Which were included in
2009 Act 28. This is scheduled to be voted on In the Senate Wednesday.
Corrections:
• I spoke to Dennis Schuh (EA at Corrections) about John Chisholm's 'Community Justice Reinvestment
Act' idea which would give counties $15,000 to keep offenders out of prison. Dennis said corrections
supports treatment options and other diversion programs however they do not support the $15,000 idea.
Unless, enough offenders were kept out of prison to shut down a prison this idea would not save money
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Ristow, Nate - GOV
From: Evenson, Tom - GOV

Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2011 9:29 AM
To: GOV DLAll Staff
Subject: Morning News Update for 02.23.11
Office of Governor Scott Walker - Morning News Update for February 23,2011
News Summary:
• Video: Gov. Walker speaks to taxpayers about the budget repair bill in his first fireside chat last evening.
• Assembly Democrats hold filibuster overnight, call Governor's fireside chat "The King's Speech."
• Senate Democrats say they've "given up on the governor" - now targeting moderate Republican senators to
switch their votes.
• Senate Republicans are attempting to lure Dems back by holding paychecks in Madison, bringing Voter ID
to the floor.
• Fmr. Gov. Tommy Thompson praises the Governor in an interview with Politico.
Governor Walker - Television Clips for Feb 22

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Wisconsin's Front Pages:

Appleton Post-Crescent
Bau Claire Leader-Tel~m
Greeu Bay Press Gazette
La Crosse Tribune
Manitowoc Herald Times Reporter
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Oshkosh Northwestern
Racine Journal Times
Sheboygan Press
.Stevens Point Journal
Wisconsin State Journal
Nation/World
Back my union rights bill by Friday or 1,500 public workers will lose their jobs, warns Wisconsin's
governor
Daily Mail- United Kingdom
Gov. Scott Walker said up to 1,500 workers could lose their jobs by July, but failed to say which workers would be
targeted. The warning came as protests over union rights bills blew up in Indiaua and Ohio.
Class war in Wisconsin

The Guardian - United Kingdom
The unions have taken a heroic stand against Governor Scott Walker. But if internal rifts are not solved, it could
be labour's last.
;8attle of )VIadisQILtest1l_US s.!:mnach fo!, longJ>tr1!ggl~

Financial Times - United Kingdom
Wisconsin's elegant State Capitol building in Madison resembles a college dormitory.
Thompson praises Walker, remains silent on labor law

Politico
Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thonipson was, in his way, the Scott Walker ofthe late 1980s and early 1990s, one of
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a cadre of young Republican governors who overturned a longstanding status quo and whose policy innovations --
welfare reform first of all v- transformed the nation.
Wisconsin Democratic Senators Have 'Pretty Much Given Up On The Governor'

Huffington Post
"We had a Senate Democratic caucus last night, and we've pretty much given up on the governor," said state Sen.
Jim Holperin (D). "I think this is a governor who is a very stubborn individual and maybe does not understand
fully the collateral consequences of his stubbornness. So we've decided to refocus on the people we believe may be
flexible to some degree, and that's Senate Republicans. A lot of those Senate Republicans have been around a long
time, and I think understand the gravity of eliminating rights from people."
The Means of Coercion

Wall Street Journal
The privileged are revolting in Wisconsin.
. .(video) Wis. governor refuses to give in to protests

USA Today
MADISON, Wis. - Huge crowds gathered at the Capitol for an eighth day Tuesday to protest Republican Gov.
Scott Walker's plan to cut union benefits and end most public workers' collectivebargaining rights as the state
Assembly debated the bill and Senate Democrats stayed in exile.
Our view: In Wisconsin budget battle, bad behavior all around

Editorial - USA Today
Iu Wisconsin, today's Grouud Zero for state budget battles, it is not hard to see bad behavior all around. Teachers
are playing hooky to protest Gov. Scott Walker's plan to trim their benefits and clip back the power of their union.
Democratic lawmakers are hiding out in illinois to prevent a GOP majority from working its will.And Walker, a
newly elected Republican, has chosen this moment of fiscal crisis to pursue questionable tax cuts and a risky
attack on collective bargaining.
Wisconsin Republicans Try to Lure Back Dems by Movin~ControversialVoter ID Bill

Fox News
Wisconsin Republicans are trying to lure Senate Democrats back to the state capital by moving ahead with a
controversial bill that would require voters to show photo ID before casting a ballot.
Wisconsin governor signs bill to make tax hike votes tougher

Reuters .
The measure, which was proposed by the Republican governor, requires a two-thirds majority vote in the Senate
and Assembly to raise income, sales or franchise tax rates instead of a simple majority vote.
Bob McDonnell: I stand with Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker

CBS News
"We made tough choices, what I think the president failed to do this time," McDonnell said. "That's what Scott
Walker and many other governors, Republican and Democrat, are doing is to say we can't afford to do things the
same way. II
Union Leader Minces No Words When Labor Issues Are at Stake

New York Times
MADISON, Wis. - As executive director of the main union of Wisconsin state employees, Marty Beilis at the
vortex of the hurricane here - and that makes some union members gulp.
Wisconsin Power Play

by Paul Krugman - New York Times
So it's not about the budget; it's about the power.
It's Crunch Time for Organized Labor

Wall Street Journal
Labor unions are facing the most direct challenge to their political and financial clout since Ronald Reagan broke
the air-traffic controllers union 30 years ago.
Inside Capitol, Wisconsin protesters create a city

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Associated Press - Reuters

For more than a week now, several hundred protesters have spent the night sleeping inside the Capitol building, a
vigil that has turned the rotunda into an indoor campground.
What Wisc!!nsin Has~ro]JghtL.LJillorUm:~tSprel!~s

TIME Magazine
As demonstrations in Wisconsin over Governor Scott Walker's efforts to limit collective bargaining for many state
employees entered a second week and national media swarmed Madison, similar protests swelled in state capitals
across the nation.
Wis. Democratic senators still hiding out despite threat of recalls, having paychecks withheld
Associated Press - Minneapolis Star Tribune
MILWAUKEE- Wisconsin state Sen. Chris Larson packed just his toothbrush and one extra shirt as he and 13
fellow Democrats fled the state to avoid near certain passage of the Republican governor's contentious plan to
strip government workers of their collective bargaining rights.
<Video) Wisconsin Democrats stage overnight filibuster

Associated Press - MSNBC
MADISON, Wis. - Democrats kept the Wisconsin Assembly up overnight with a droning filibuster in another
desperate attempt to block the Republican governor's bold plan to strip public sector workers of nearly all oftheir
bargaining rights.
Making sense ofWisconsin's union showdown

Steven Pearlstein - Washington Post
A dirty little secret about column writers is that we each have a handful of road-tested templates that we use all
too frequently to make sense of something that has happened and demands our wise opinionation.
Union battles in 3 states escalate

LA Times
Democrats in Indiana's House flee to block anti-union legislation, and protesters rally in Ohio against a bill that
would curb public employees' collective bargaining rights. In Wisconsin, Gov. Walker threatens to lay off workers
if his proposal doesn't pass.
Busting the unions

Op-Ed - LA Times
The manufactured budget 'crisis' in Wisconsin is being used as cover for an assault on the rights ofAmerican
working people.
Scott Walker's BigBpeech That Didn't ChJIDg~.hiJl~

Slate Magazine
"Given the size of his power grab," said Democratic Rep. Jon Richards, "maybe we should call it The King's
Speech." '
How the GOP Can Win the Budget Battle

Fred Barnes - WallBtI'eet Journal
Republicans won a blockbuster victory in November's election after a campaign focused on cutting government
spending and reducing debt. Then they got the bad news: Americans are leery of cutting specific programs.
Milwaukee
One small step... is all it takes

Editorial- Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Gov. Scott Walker sat down Tuesday night for a heart-to-heart talk with the people of Wisconsin, and he gave it to
them straight: We're in a real fix. We have a big budget hole to fill.
Walker in middle of perfect storm

Calm and unflappable in the wake of daily demonstrations at the state Capitol, Walker has emerged as a new face
on the national scene and a new political hope for the national Republican Party.
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Senate Republicans to withhold Democrats' pay

Madison -- Senate Republicans voted Tuesday to make Democrats hiding out in illinois come back to Wisconsin
to pick up their paychecks.
Walker praises civil debate, stresses budget realities

Madison - In a televised speech Tuesday, Gov. Scott Walker called for civilityand declined to back down from his
tough stance with public employee unions.
Indiana House at standstill after Democrats walk out

All but two of the Indiana Legislature's 40 House Democrats walked out of the statehouse Tuesday in a bid to
delay action on three bills that would curtail collectivebargaining rights.
Senate - without Democrats - breezes through limited agenda

Madison - Name by name, their absence was noted, the clerk efficiently reading the roll call, the words met by
silence.
Asse.mbly member accep.tll re.'i.l!.onsiQility for ticket in massa~lliU'lorcase

State Rep. Gordon Hintz, ticketed this month as part of an investigation into prostitution at an Appleton massage
parlor, said Monday he would take responsibility for his actions.
UW Hospital surprised to find its workers in budget-repair bill

University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics- which doesn't receive state money directly - would be barred from
collectivelybargaining with its roughly 5,000 union employees under Gov. Scott Walker's proposed budget-repair
bill.
Time to come home

Editorial- Racine Journal Times
Senate Democrats have made the point. Now it's time for them to go back to Madison.
COUll!:)' resolution 01U2osing Walker's bill sent to committee

RACINECOUNTY - A resolution asking the governor to handle collectivebargaining aspects of a budget repair bill
that would essentially eliminate unions' rights separately is going to a committee.
Wisconsin lawmakers take up billto weaken unions

Associated Press - Racine Journal Times
MADISON, Wis. CAP) - With their Senate colleagues still in hiding, Democrats in the Wisconsin Assembly began
introducing a barrage of 100 amendments Tuesday to tty to stymie the Republican governor's plan to strip
.unionized public employees of most of their bargaining rights.
Capitol capaci!:)': Lawmaker voices concern about buildhlg's structural integrity

Daily Reporter - Milwaukee
State lawmakers Tuesday took measures to reclaim portions of the Capitol building from protesters who have
crowded inside for more than a week.
Harley-Davidson, union reach contract settlement

Harley-Davidson Inc. has reached a tentative contract settlement with the labor unions at its Kansas City, Mo.,
manufacturing plant.
Public school districts advised to decide on layoffs

Public school officials are being advised to approve preliminary layoff notices for staff by the end of the month,
before many of them usually contemplate workforce reductions and before they know how much money they can
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raise for the next school year.
State reviewing complaints over doctors' eXCUSe notes

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel .
Staff at the state Department of Regulation and Licensing have begun to review roughly 300 e-mail complaints
about doctors issuing excuse notes for protesters at the state Capitol over the weekend, officials said Tuesday.
Madison
Civil debate shines on Square

Editorial- Wisconsin State Journal
It's no small thing that only a handful of people have been arrested for minor offenses during the huge and
ongoing rallies at and around the state Capitol in Madison this past week.
Labor group calls for general strike if budget bill is approved

The 97-union South Central Federation of Labor of Wisconsin is laying groundwork for a general strike if Gov.
Scott Walker succeeds in enacting legislation that would strip most bargaining rights from most public employee
.unions,
Localle!!-<l!,rs from throughout 1h~~ate ask GOP tJLnot end collective bargl!ini]!g
Gov. Scott Walker says sweeping changes to collective bargaining in the state budget repair bill can help local
officials absorb looming cuts in state aid, but many local officials aresaying "No thanks."
Legislative stalemate continues into pre-dawn hours as talk goes on

Wisconsin State Joumal
The stalemate continued late into the night Tuesday as the state Assembly attempted to work through dozens of
amendments proposed by Democrats - most of them meant to stall the progress of Gov. Scott Walker's
controversial budget repair bill.
Let it breathe. Separate issues.

Editorial- Beloit Daily News
WHETHER EITHER SIDE wants to admit it or not, there are two separate issues in play regarding the showdown
in Madison.
GOP staying on message

The Capital Times
Assembly Republicans didn't stray from the party message Tuesday, telling dozens of reporters packed inside a
Capitol hearing room that the state is broke and, despite the tens of thousands of protesters, say a majority of
Wisconsin is behind them.
Walker's plans not what local governments asked for

Editorial- The Capital Times
A non-compromising Gov. Scott Walkerinsists that he must strip away the bargainingrights of public employee
unions so that local governments and school districts have the flexibility to deal with their own budgets, which he
has promised will be hit by huge cuts in funds they now receive from the state.
Governor's budget repair bill ushers in health care changes

Wisconsin Reporter
MADISON - More than 60,000 individuals could find themselves without state government-backed health
care next year if lawmakers approve of Gov. Scott Walker's budget repair bill.
Green Bay/Appleton
Municipal leaders await impact of Gov. Scott Walker's budget repair bill on self-insured health
'programs
APPLETON - Will Gov. Scott Walker's push for higher employee contributions for health care cause teachers to
drop their coverage and seek benefits through family members working in local government?
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In an eleventh-hourscheme designed to block passage of Gov. Scott Walker's budget repair bill, 14 state Senate
Democrats fled to Illinois and deprived the 19 Republicans of the zo-vote threshold needed to take up the fiscal
measure.
~Jl~itol di~I!ute I!J'~ve.s_that vote~~ou.nt

Editorial- Sheboygan Press
If you're a public employee or the spouse of a public employee and you didn't vote, you know now that elections
lead to consequences.
Walker states his case

Sheboygan Press
MADISON - Gov. Scott Walker says failing to pass a bill stripping union rights for Wisconsin public workers
would have "dire consequences."
Transit funding needs to be sustained

Editorial- Appleton Post-Crescent
Delaying passage of Gov. Scott Walker's budget repair bill has allowed legislators to uncover more of its
ramifications.
Wausau/Rhinelander
Metro Ride faces $lM loss in federal aid

Wausau Daily Herald
Wausau's Metro Ride program could lose more than $1 million in federal transportation grants if Gov. Scott
Walker's controversial budget repair bill makes it through the Legislature unchanged.
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Ristow. Nate· GOV
From: Hagedorn, Brian K - GOV

Sent: Thursday, February 17, 20112:01 PM
To: Gilkes, Keith - GOV; Schutt, Eric - GOV; Murray, Ryan M - GOV
SUbject: JS says Larson is in his office
http://www.jsonline.com/newswatch/116381289.html
Brian K. Hagedorn
Chief Legal Counsel
Office of Governor Scott Walker
Offic~
Ce11: _ _ _ _ _
brian.hagedorn@wisconsin.gov
4/13/2011
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From: Hegerfeld, Kathy - DOT

Subject: Today's Reader Review
Senate committee advances voter 10 bill; phoned-in vote by Oem not

counted
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http://www.gazeltextra.com/weblogs/latest-news/2011/feb/22/w is-senate-c omm ittee-passes-voter-id-
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DEBORAH ZIFF
February 22, 2011
A Senate committee voted to advance a controversial voter 10 bill Tuesday after the chairwoman angrily refused
to allow a Democratic member - one of 14 taking refuge out of state - to vote over the phone. The bill could go
to the Senate floor by Thursday.
The meeting got testy as Sen. Jon Erpenbach, D-Middleton, attempted to participate in the meeting by phone
from an undisclosed location. He and 13.other senators are refusing to return to the.Capitol until Gov; Scott
Walker gives concessions on a plan to limit collective bargaining rights for public employees. Their absence has
prevented the Senate from reaching the 20-member quorum needed to act on fiscal bills.
"I'm not going to take your vote, Sen. Erpenbach," said Sen. Mary Lazich, R-New Berlin, chairwoman of the
Senate Transportation and Election Committee. "This is unethical."
Lazich. said it's a courtesy to allow senators to participate from afar, but she wouldn't extend it to Erpenbach
because he "refuses to be here." .
She proceeded to call roll and a vote, ignoring Erpenbach's voice piping in over the phone.
"I voted no. Did you get my vote?" Erpenbach yelled over the phone while Lazich ignored him. The bill passed 3-
0, without Erpenbach's vote. Committee member Spencer Coggs, D-Milwaukee, also was absent.
Because the bill is estimated to cost $2.1 million over the first two years to implement,at least one Democrat must
be present for the full Senate to take it up. Lazich said Republicans may introduce amendments to remove the
cost of the bill by delaying the implementation of the law to 2012.
The costs involve modifying a statewide voter registration system, training local election officials, revising forms
and conducting public outreach, according to the Government Accountability Board .
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Bill could wreck mass transit; millions in federal aid at stake

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By Chris Hubbuch
February 23, 2011
Public transit could come to a halt in La Crosse if the deadlocked Legislature passes Gov. Scott Walker's budget
repair bill as written.
Federal funding accounts for about 35 percent of the Metropolitan Transit Utility's operating budget, and that $1.9
million in aid requires a collective bargaining agreement with employees.
Walker's proposal, which prohibits collective bargaining for most state and local government workers, could
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jeopardizethat funding, according to analysis by the state's Legislative Fiscal Bureau.
"You take that kind of hit ... and what do you have left?" said Keith Carlson, La Crosse's transit manager. "That's
just on the operating side." .
The city could also lose as much as $1.2 million for three buses scheduled for replacement, Carlson said. The
federal governmentprovides 80 percent matching grants for capital projects like the recently completed Grand
River Station, which was built-wlth-the help of $11· million· in federal money.
"I can't replace any of that," Carlson said.
Cuts to the MTU would affect bus service to Onalaska as well, though funding to that city's shared-ride service
would likely be untouched.
.... ··"We have three routes that run extensively through the city or touch the city," said Mayor Mike Giese. "We depend
on that a great deal."
The MTU has signed a contract for 2011 with the union that represents 31 full-time and six part-time drivers, but !
the budget bill, if passed, could affect funding for 2012.
An amendmentproposed by two Assembly Democrats seeks to add transit workers to the unions - currently
police, fire and state patrol- exempted from the proposed restrictions on collective bargaining, a move they say
would save nearly $47 million in federal aid.
Walker's office did not respond Tuesday to a request for commenton the concerns or the amendment.
One alternative solution could be privatizing the bus system.
Milwaukee County contracts with a private corporation, which in turn bargains with the bus drivers' union. That
arrangement means about $27 million in federal funds to the Milwaukee area would be unaffected by the changes
in the budget repair bill, according to the fiscal bureau report.
-That's the case with Onalaska's shared ride program. Carlson said he has not studied options-forcontracfinq the
MTU service.
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Rock County road closes due to flooding

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by Stan Stricker
Feb. 22,2011
The Rock County Highway Departmenthas closed a section of Beloit Newark Road, in Lhe Town of Avon, due Lo
flooding.
Highway Commissioner Ben Coopman says water is about six inches deep, and safety concerns prompted the
closing. Coopman says it's not unusual for the Sugar River to flood the road later in the spring, but recent rains
and a rapid snow melt, accelerated the problem. The stretch of road closed is from Avon Stores Road to County
Highway T.
Coopman predicts it will reopen in the next few days.

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Lane closures planned on US 41

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Feb. 22, 20111
GRAND CHUTE - The state Department of Transportation says lane restrictions will be in place Thursday on
U.S. 41 southbound where it crosses. College Avenue (State 125).
The center and right southbound lanes will be closed from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. These lanes will reopen and the
southbound left lane will then be closed from 9:30 to 11 p.rn, All lanes are expected to be open after 11 p.m.
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These lanes are being closed for deck repairs and there is the potential for traffic backups.
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Editorial: Transit funding needs to be sustained

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Feb. 22, 2011
Delaying passage of Gov. Scott Walker's budget repair bill has allowed legislators to uncover more of its
ramifications.
We have our concerns about the bill, including the elimination of collective bargaining rights and giving a state
agency more power to change rules of medical
assistance programs.
But It also threatens mass transit systems throughout the state. The provision that takes away collective
bargaining on anything except salary would cost the state
$46.6 million in federal transportation funding:
That means the budget for Valley Transit, which runs the Fox Cities' public bus system, drops from $8.5 million to
$6 million.
Lawmakers cannot let that happen. Walker cannot let this happen.
Bus systems connect workers to employers.. They-conneet-students-te-sehocls. They connect shoppers-to

retailers. They're a vital part of the economy that Walker wants so desperately to stimulate.
We've said before the bill has problems, and this bolsters our argument. The state's budget is a mess and
benefits should be cut, but the elimination of collective
bargaining must be debated in a bill separate from the financial issues.
Rep. Penny Bernard Schaber of Appleton and fellow Democrat Rep. Tamara Grigsby of Milwaukee have
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introduced an amendment that would exempt transit

workers from the bill's bargaining restrictions.
The Federal Transit Act "requires the continuation of any collective bargaining rights that were in place when the
employer started receiving federal funds."
Since the budget repair bill is still alive, all legislators must understand the amendment's importance and approve
it. Riders, employers, agencies and families
are counting on it.
Deborah Wetter, Valley Transit's general manager, speaks for those who are begging for a transit funding
solution."Whatever lawmakers come up (With) to fix
this, we are happy," she said. "Please just don't let us die."
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Nearly half of annual revenue comes from Washington, D.C.
by charlie mathews
Herald Times Reporter
February 23, 2011
MANITOWOC - Maritime Metro Transit buses will be running their regular six routes in Manitowoc and Two
Rivers through the end of 2011, manager Derek
Muench said Tuesday. .
But provisions in Gov. Scott Walker's budget repair biil may threaten operations in the future, Muench said.
"We fear federal dollars might be lost, but the true impact is not defined, yet," Muench said of the nearly 50
percent of the annual $2.3 miilion in revenue needed to operate MMT.
"The local and state dollars Which remain in place would be enough to keep us operating until year's end,"
Muench said.
Walker's proposed budget fix calls for eliminating all collectivebargaining.powers.of.municipa\'workers.-'-

including the local transit system's 19 bus drivers, 1.5 clerical staff members, and two mechanics - except wage
negotiations.
A federal Department of Labor mandate requires approved labor agreements protecting transit workers be in
place before federal funds can be released to public transit systems.
Any chanqes in the agreements, such as altering collective barqaininq rights, might jeopardize federal funds,
according to federal officials ..
"We contract with the state Department of Transportation as a 'Tier C' system operating in an urbanized area of
less than 50,000 people," Muench said of the relationship that flows federal money through Madison to
Manitowoc.
Riders contributed $205,000 of the Maritime Metro Transit's annual budget, about 10 percent. In 2010, Muench
said the "operating deficit" was approximately $2.1 million.
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Fifty percent of the deficit was covered by U.S. taxpayers in the form of the federal government, 21 percent from
Wisconsin and 29 percent from Manitowoc County, primarily the cities of Manitowoc and Two Rivers. '
Riders
Last year, Muench said the system provided 310,000 rides of passengers taking one-way trips and transfers on
the buses that run from 5 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Friday, and 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturdays.
Along with its fixed routes, part of Maritime Metro Transit's operating expenses is linked to its mandated
paratransit service under the Americans with Disabilities Act, some 9,000 rides annually.
This is curb-to-curb van transportation for people with disabilities who have been certified as unable to use
Maritime Metro's accessible ramp-equipped bus service for some or all trips.
'Affordable, dependable'
An adult cash fare is $1.50, students pay $1, and senior and disabled citizens pay 75 cents to get on the bus, with
a monthly bus pass priced at $20 offering unlimited trips.
"The long-term philosophy of public transit is not to break even but be affordable and dependable and at Maritime
Metro Transit ... and we are."The communities of Manitowoc and Two Rivers have a high elderly and disabled
population, often dependent on fixed route or ADA services, and those are the ones that would be greatly
impacted" by any loss of federal funding, Muench said.
He fears a "domino effect" if possible lost federal funding hinders Maritime Metro's operations.
"We provide transportation to Holiday House for many of its clients," Muench said. "If those individuals can't get
there it would put a burden on that treasured organization to get them there or function without them."
Muench said that for adults that don'tor can't drive and for many studentaanydstmlshrnent'of Maritime Metro
Transit's services "jeopardizes the welfare of those individuals."
Muench said he and other transit system managers would like any future state legislation to exempt municipal
transit systems from the proposed collective bargaining changes.
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February 23, 2011
BROKAW -- The Highway 51 northbound ramp at Highway WW in Brokaw is closed indefinitely after the roadway
buckled late Monday.
A 12-foot-wide bubbie a foot high in the middle formed in the ramp when water between the oid concrete roadway
and the asphalt surface froze and pushed the asphalt upward, said Mike Wendt, a Department of Transportation
maintenance engineer. The DOT and Marathon County Highway Department officials met Tuesday and will meet
again today to determine how to fix the damage, Wendt said.
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Motorists planning to use the northbound ramp now must exit at Highway K in Wausau and follow Highway K
north to Hig hway VVVV.
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Kathy Hegerfeld
WisDOT
Office of Public Affairs
Rm. 1038 Hill Farms
Madison, WI
(6q8)261-5895
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Ristow, Nate - GOV
From: Kitzman, Nick - GOV

Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2011 6:25 PM
Subject: Legislative and Policy Update
Legislative Update
·····Sent around New York Times article to all GOP members and staff.
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Assembly Session
• SS AB 11- Budget Adjustment Bill and amendments have been debated on the Assembly floor most of the
, day and will continue into the night. '
Senate Session
• Secretary Anderson received final confirmation; 19-0

• SJR 12- commending of the Green Bay Packers passed; 19-0
• SB 9- dairy and livestock farm investment credit passed; '19cO
Senate Committees
• SB 7- Voter 10 passed the Senate Transportation Committee as amended; 3-0 (Senator Lazich did not let
Senator Erpenbach vote via phone). Planned for Thursday's session,
• SB 15- data collection repeal passed the' Senate Committee on Public Safely;'* t Derrrsupport; Wirch.
Scheduled for tomorrow's floor session.
Legislative Contacts
• Senators Leibham, Darling and Galloway, along with Representatives A. Ott and Petrowski contacted our
office with concerns of federal funding continuation with the changes of collective bargaining for mass
transit workers.
Economic Development and Regulatory Reform Team
Commerce
• Met with Graymont Company, executives" '
c: Lime manufacturer in Superior, privately-owned
a WOUld like to be considered as a host site if the governor is visiting Superior
DOT
• Met with Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers
a Concerned with motor vehicle franchise contract issues with the dealers
• Retroactive application statute
a Dealers support a bill that is currently being drafted and going to be introduced by Sen. Leibham,
that will get dealers higher reimbursement rates on franchise agreements and adjust the general
terms of the contract agreement
a Sen. Leibham's Office will send the Governor's Office a copy of the drafted legislation when it is
completed
• Transit Aid
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o WI Urban and Transit Assoc. legislative representative, Gary Goyke is holding a press conference
on Wednesday to aiert the public of the potential cuts in fed. transit funding as a resuit of Budget
Repair Bill
o Spoke to Tim Fiocchi in Rep. Petrowski's (Chair Assembly Transportation Committee) on the federal
transit issue
Venture Capital
• Submitted two proposal's to tlie State Budget Office for drafting, both a modified CAPCO and a Fund of
Funds
DNR
• Spoke with Matt Moroney on a number of items
o Town of Hubbard (Rusk Co.) Digital Flood Insurance Rate Maps (DFIRM)
1. Town took issue with the outcome of DNRIFEMA's maps
2. Matt said DNR wouid support them in their appeal to FEMA
o Rainbow Springs Golf Course
1. DN R has not determined what to do with the golf course, there are a number of options they
are considering
2. Could remain a golf course, could be turned into a park! might be sold, might be retained
Human ServiCes aud Educatiou Team
Educatiou Meetings
The Board of Regents is holding an emergency meeting on Friday to discuss the UW-Madison Authority.
Michael attended the DPI monthly meeting. with the Educator Effectiveness.design. team. They reviewed a list of
questions that will need to be addressed in order to implement an effective teacher evaluation system.
Justice and Local Governments Team
Local Governments:
• Wisconsin Rapids Tribune. Local Walker supporters say it's time to make cuts
Verna Bidgood, vice chaitwoman of the Wood County Republican Party, said she received 4.0 to 50 e-mails a day
from residents who support Walkers plan.
"We cannot continue to kick the can down the street; things have to be faced," Lippert said. "As for the senators
who left, I think it's an abdication of their responsibilities. I understand they feel the outcome might not be in their
favor, but that's what elections are about, and they have an obligation on the floor in Madison."
• The City of Kenosha passed a resolution in opposition to the Budget Adjustment Bill.
Voter ID:
• The Senate committee passed voter ID bill amended to include tribaIID's, a DOT card receipt, a
passport, or a certificate of nationalization. The amendment creates a 28 day residency requirement to
vote (previously 10), a voter must sign.the.ballot,. and.a, provisional. voter.who has. no 10. on Election Day
has until Friday at 4pm after an election to provide identification. The amendment also allows DOT to
issue ID's at no cost to electors if they request. The amendment also allows voters to vote until spring
2012 without an ID requirement however-they would be given information explaining it would be required
in the future. The initial applicability date was also deleted by the amendment Which means it would go
into effect immediately. The amended bill is scheduled for a vote in the Senate on Thursday.
• League of Women Voters of Wisconsin. Opposition to vote on SB-6
• Common Cause Wisconsin. Senate Republicans poised to pass unconstitutional voter ID iegislation
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Justice:
• The Senate committee passed a repeal of traffic stop data reporting requirements which were included in
2009 Act 28. This is scheduled to be voted on in the Senate Wednesday.
Corrections:
• I spoke to Dennis Schuh (EA at Corrections) about John Chisholm's 'Community Justice Reinvestment
Act' idea which would give counties $15,000 to keep offenders out of prison. Dennis said corrections
supports treatment options and other diversion programs however they do not support the $,15,000 idea.
Unless, enough offenders were kept out of prison to shut down a prison this idea would not save money
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Ristow, Nata- GOV
From: Elizabeth Toomey:

To: Childrens Scholarship Fund
SUbject: Feb n clips
Lawmakers to take up decisive ed issues in session - AP (FL)
Ind. Senate OKs parts of Daniels' education agenda - AP (IN)
Philadelphia schools say voucher bill could cost them millions - Philadelphia Inquirer
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Vouchers violate state constitution - Patriot News CPA)
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P A. PUBLIC WORKERS KEEPING EYES ON WISCONSIN - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
N.J. education officials continue to worry despite Christie's proposed increase of school aid - Newark
Star-Ledger .
A Quiet Family Fund Creates a Loud Buzz - Chronicle of Philanthropy
The Associated Press State & Local Wire
February 23,2011 Wednesday 10:01 AM GMT
Lawmakers to take up decisive ed issues in session
BYLINE: By CHRISTINE ARMARIO, Associated Press
SECTION: STATE AND REGIONAL
LENGTH: 1191 words
DATELINE: MIAMI
Major cuts to school budgets as federal stimulus funding dries up. Tying teacher evaluations to student
performance on standardized tests. Expanding vouchers and virtual school programs.
The upcoming legislative session is likely to be a pivotal one in shaping the future of education in
Florida
On the table again this spring will be the issue of how teachers are paid and evaluated. Jacksonville
Republican Sen. Stephen Wise has introduced a bill that would make 50 percent of a teacher's evaluation
based on student growth on tbe Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test. The legislation would also get
rid of tenure for new teachers and provide performance pay for tbose hired after July 2014 that are rated
highly effective or teach in a school tbat is low-income or under performing.
The legislation is similar to tbe controversial Senate Bill 6 that was vetoed by Gov. Charlie Crist after
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outcry from teachers last year. It's also comparable to the evaluation plan outlined in the state's Race to
the Top application, the $4.35 billion U.S. Department of Education competition that Florida and 10
other states, and the District of Columbia, won last year.
Wise and others supporting his legislation believe the state, with a new governor and Republican-
controlled Legislature, is ready to take up the issue again. If passed, Florida would join a handful of
other states that have enacted reforms tying teacher pay and evaluations to test scores and weakening the
protections of tenure.
"I see a more humane approach to implementation of a very good idea," state Sen. David Simmons, R-
Altamonte Springs, said in a recent interview. "We're getting more consensus, so we feel good about
that."
But teacher unions have already pledged to fight the bill.
"It does not appear it's going to be good enough to get our support," said Andy Ford, president of the
Florida Education Association, the statewide union that represents more than 250,000 teachers and
education staff.
"The fact a teacher would spend her entire career as an at will employee in a vulnerable situation is just
unacceptable," Ford said. "You can't fire your way to excellence. You're going to have to build a
teaching force. And if you find you can't remediate a teacher, then you need to make a decision to let
them go."
He said the current process. of-getting.rid of ineffective teachers is "not.that.hard,"
"Basically, it's due process," Ford said. "Can we do it quicker? Probably. That's usually a result of
hearing officers not being available. And delays in not producing the documents on time."
Teacher merit payis being pushed by the Obama administration and a number of lawmakers around the
country, but the verdict is still out on how it works most effectively and whether it has an effect on
student achievement, at all..
A three-year study by Vanderbilt University's National Center on Performance Incentives found that
offering big bonsues to teachers failed to raise students' test.scores. Teachers in the metropolitan
Nashville school system who were offered bonuses of up to $15,000 a year had the same gains on
standardized tests as those without the incentive.
But supporters oflooseuing tenure and tightening teacher accountability say the current laws are too lax.
"Anyone who is being paid with taxpayer dollars should not be guaranteed ajob," Sen. Mike Fasano, R-·
New Port Richey, said. "We all should have to be accountable and regardless of if it's an elected official,
police officer, firefighter, librarian, clerk of court."
Karen Aronowitz, president of United Teachers of Dade, said an annual contract would make it too easy
to fire teachers, especially those who have been teaching for many years and have higher salaries,
"The system would not want to keep long-term teachers because they could cost the system more," she
said. "So that is very simply a way to always keep the bottom line low. And it has nothing to do with
education and nothing to do with effective teaching."
Wise said teachers would not be let go indiscriminately.
"We don't have enough teachers as it is," Wise said in a recent interview. "I don't see us firing teachers
for no reason. I think we're putting together an evaluation package that will also take in peer review and
other measurements that will be decided on and a plan developed by teachers and administrators and
others by 2014.
"I'm not here to destroy the teaching profession," Wise added. "I'm here to make sure they get paid."
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During his campaign, Gov. Rick Scott called for greater school choice and performance-based pay for
teachers. His transition team which included Michelle Rhee, the former D.C. schools chancellor who
instituted a new evaluation system there and became a nationwide figure on education reform put
forward a number of bold ideas, including creating accounts parents could use to pull the money used
for their child's public education and put it toward private tuition instead.
The transition team also proposed expanding existing voucher programs, merit-pay for teachers and
eliminating tenure. The most radical of their ideas the "education savings accounts" are not likely to be
taken up by the Legislature.
Scott did not include it in his budget recommendation to the Legislature. Instead, he proposed increasing
school choice by expanding charter schools and allowing more parents the freedom to select which
public school their childrem would attend.
Several lawmakers and education observers said they saw Scott, in some ways, as taking up where Gov.
Jeb Bush took off.
"I think Gov. Scott is truly a reform minded, conservative man," Patricia Levesque, a member of Scott's
transition team and deputy chief of staff for education under Bush. She now heads Bush's Foundation for
Florida's Future, which advocates for his education policies.
"And so his philosophy on accountability, on competition, on choice, on rewarding effective teachers,
all of those are things 1 think Gov. Bush would applaud him for," Levesque said.
'Any changes will take place in the backdrop of cuts to education spending, as.federal stimulus and jobs
money dries up. Under Scott's proposed budget, spending would decline by at least $300 per student and
as much as $700. That will leave districts with the difficult task of trying to meet the state's class-size
amendment with less money for teacher salaries.
Voters rejected a proposal to ease the requirements, and 35 districts are facing fines for violations.
The fines range from $1,308 for Walton County to $16.6 million for Pahn Beach County. Sen. Miguel
Diaz de la Portilla, R-Miami, has proposed a bill that would eliminate all fines.
Lawmakers are again expected totake up legislation that would' make thelaw mordlexible:-'
In order to get in compliance this year, districts had to recall laid-off teachers, increase the number of
students taking online virtual courses and even put kids from two grade levels in the same classroom.
"I don't think anyone is happy to have gone through the process," said Raquel Regalado, a Miami-Dade
County School Board member. "But I think it has become one ofthe best things about our system and
it's something we should continue to uphold."
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The Associated Press State & Local Wire
February 23, 2011 Wednesday 3:46 AM GMT
Ind. Senate OKs parts of Daniels' education agenda
BYLINE: By DEANNA MARTIN, Associated Press
SECTION: STATE AND REGIONAL

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LENGTH: 658 words
DATELINE: INDIANAPOLIS
The Republican-led Indiana Senate approved several key pieces of GOP Gov. Mitch Daniels' aggressive
education agenda Tuesday, including a bill to limit teachers' collective bargaining rights and a bill
linking teacher pay to student performance.
Minority Democrats have objected to the proposals and teachers have protested, saying they're under
attack from Republicans who control the Statehouse. Union workers protesting a labor bill at the
Statehouse on Tuesday held signs urging senators to vote against the education proposals, but
Republicans pushed the bills through the chamber and they now move to the Republican-ruled House"
where they are expected to meet a friendly audience.
State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Bennett, also a Republican, said in a statement that the
bills advanced what he called education reform.
"I am encouraged by our lawmakers' resolve to advance these much-needed proposals despite vocal
minority opposition," Bennett said. "If we are able to maintain this momentum, Indiana will emerge
from this legislative session as the nation's leader in education reforms that put students at the center of
every decision."
The Senate voted 30-19 for the collective bargaining bill, which would limit collective bargaining
agreements between local districts and teachers' unions to wages and wage-related benefits"Supporters
said teacher contracts shouldn't include details that do little to improve academics, such as requiring
comfortable teachers' lounges. '
Sen. Luke Kenley, R-Noblesville, said' current rules give too much power to teachers unions and that the
bill is a fair way to recognize the importance of teachers as well as local districts.
"We have struck a balance here," Kenley said.
But critics said the bill erodes union power, and argued that local districts should determine what's in
contracts. Sen. Earline Rogers, Devilry ;said'clianges made to the billas if moved'through the legislative
session improved it slightly but she compared the efforts to putting lipstick on a pig.
"This bill is still a pig," she said, adding that she hopes it eventually dies in a slaughterhouse.
The Senate later voted 29-20 for the merit pay bill, which would require yearly teacher evaluations.
Teachers would be ranked into one of four categories, and those who fall into the lowest two categories
wouldn't get any automatic pay raises. Local districts would create their own evaluation systems but
would have to include objective measures of student achievement.
Supporters say the bill aims to recognize and reward-outstanding-teachers. '
"I want to have teachers honored," said bill sponsor Sen. Dennis Kruse, R-Auburn. "I'm not a teacher-
basher. I want them to excel and improve as a teacher. That's what this bill is designed to do." .
Critics say test scores shouldn't playa heavy role in evaluations, and also opposed a provision in the bill
that allows up to 50 percent of teachers at a charter schools to be unlicensed.
"I don't understand the dumbing down ofthe teaching profession.t'saidSen. TimSkiimer, D-Terre
Haute. "I don't see how that's going to improve student performance."
The Senate also voted 39-10 to approve Daniels' proposal to give high school students a $3,500 post-
secondary scholarship if they graduate from high school a year early.
The votes Tuesday add to the legislative success Daniels has had in advancing his education agenda.
The House previously approved a bill expanding charter schools legislation that supporters say would
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give families more options but opponents say would siphon money away from traditional public schools.
However, one big part of Daniels' education agenda appears to be in jeopardy. The voucher bill would
use taxpayer money to help parents send their children to private schools. The bill would have to pass
the House by Friday to stay alive, and minority Democrats have fled to Illinois to prevent a vote on the
voucher bill and a so-called right-to-work bill.
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The Philadelphia Inquirer
February 23, 2011 Wednesday

CITY-C Edition
Philadelphia schools say voucher bill could cost them millions
BYLINE: By Adrienne Lu; Inquirer Staff Writer
SECTION: PHILADELPHIA; Pvcom News Local; Pg. B02
LENGTH: 685 words
Philadelphia's public schools could lose $40 million in state funding next year if a school-voucher bill
being considered by state lawmakers is approved, School District officials said at a hearing Tuesday.
The figure assumes that 10 percent of the students who would be eligible for the vouchers would use
them.
Such a funding loss would seriously hurt a district already facing a gap of $400 million to $500 million
in a $3 billion budget, said Deputy Superintendent Leroy Nunery, who testified before the General
Assembly's House Democratic Policy Committee at the Independence Visitor' Center:
Besides the potential voucher loss, Nunery said, the district anticipates losing $300 million in federal
funding.
According to Nunery, $40 million could pay for all the School District's nurses and interscholastic
athletic programs, and 20 percent of its librarians.
The hearing came as lawmakers in Harrisburg continue to debate a bill to create a voucher program,
which would let students from low-income families attend private or parochial schools with the aid of
government-funded vouchers. The Corbett administration has- expressed support for-school-choice
programs in general, although it has not declared its support for the bill being discussed. Senate Bill 1,
which has support from Republicans and Democrats, is expected to be voted on by the Senate Education
Committee next month.
Under the legislation, the first two years of the program would allow low-income students in the 144
worst-performing public schools in Pennsylvania (excluding charter schools) to apply for vouchers.
Ninety-one of those schools are in Philadelphia, and 51,000 students would be eligible for vouchers the
first year, Nunery said; 23 percent ofthe state's low-income students are educated by Philadelphia.
In the third year of the voucher program, low-income students anywhere in the state could apply for
vouchers.
Nunery and the School District's chief financial officer, Michael Masch, said the district could be left
with funding equivalent to what it received in 2007.
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"If tens of millions of dollars of additional funding are diverted at the same time ... that will make it
enormously difficult for us to malntain the momentum of the last eight years," said Nunery, who urged
lawmakers to change the legislation so Philadelphia schools would not lose funding for every student
who took advantage of the voucher program.
The amounts of the vouchers would vary from district to district, depending on the amount of state aid
, .sent to the district; in Philadelphia, the vouchers would work out to about $7,900 per student.
Masch said the district's costs would not decrease proportionately when students left through the
voucher program. If three students left one school, for example, the district could not get rid of a
teacher, a principal or a librarian, and would still have to pay to heat the school building, he said.
Proponents argue that vouchers give parents more options for their children's education and spur public
schools to improve by creating competition. Opponents say vouchers may hurt districts that lose .
students and funding.
Lawmakers wondered how much choice the voucher program would give parents if private and
parochial schools could choose which students they accept. .
"I don't see anything in here that guarantees that a kid with a voucher gets the opportunity," said Rep.
James R. Roebuck Jr. (D., Phila.).
Joe Watkins, chairman of Students First, which advocates for school choice, responded that for parents
desperate to send their children to better schools, vouchers represent hope.
"People are so desperate in our cities and towns around the commonwealth that even the hope, the
possibility, of doing better than they're doing now is good enough," Watkins said. .
Mary Rochford, superintendent of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia, which has lost
thousands of students with the rise of charter schools, said the archdiocese had 13,748 empty seats in
Philadelphia and 19,135 empty seats in the suburban. counties...'
Contact staffwriter Adrienne Lu at 215-854-2624 or alu@phillynews.com.
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Patriot News (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania)
February 22, 2011 Tuesday

FINAL EDITION .
Vouchers violate state constitution
BYLINE: Robert Speel
SECTION: OPINION; Pg. All
LENGTH: 753 words
There is another movement afoot in the General Assembly to establish a school voucher program in
Pennsylvania.
It would allow low-income students in poorly performing public schools to use their school's per-pupil
state subsidy as a voucher to attend a private school, including sectarian schools run by religious
groups.
There is debate about whether school vouchers are sound public policy. But the state constitution is
clear: School vouchers for religious schools are unconstitutional in Pennsylvania unless the constitution
is amended. According to the state constitution, "no money raised for the support of the public schools
of the connnonwealth shall be appropriated to or used for the support of any sectarian school." This
. clause, known as a Blaine Amendment, is cited in the part of.the.constitution that describes the powers
of the General Assembly and therefore is intended as a direct limit on state govenunent. The Blaine
Amendments are named for former congressman-James-Blaine of Maine, who was the GOP presidential
candidate in 1884 ..
In 1875, Blaine proposed a federal constitutional amendment similar in wording to that in the current
state constitution. The federal amendment passed the House ofRepresentatives easily, but failed to
achieve two-thirds support in the Senate. Followirig that failure, a majority of states, including
Pennsylvania, added such amendments to their state constitutions.
.Part of the motivation behind the Blaine Amendments was anti-Catholic attitudes among Protestants at a
time of increased Catholic immigration to the United States. For this reason, perhaps the Blaine
Amendment here should be reconsidered.
However, a state constitutional amendment would require approval by voters, something that supporters
of school vouchers in the state might want to avoid.
California and Michigan voters have rejected school voucher systems proposed through voter initiatives
on the ballot. After the Utah state Legislature approved school vouchers in 2007, voters overturned the
law in a ballot measure. In Florida and Colorado, their state Supreme Courts ruled that school voucher
systems were a violation of the state constitutions, both of which contain Blaine Amendments.
Today, the only states that have similar programs to what is being proposed for Peunsy1vania are
Wisconsin, Ohio and Louisiana.
The Blaine Amendments in the Wisconsin and Ohio state constitutions have different wording than that
found in Pennsylvania's-allowing their courts to uphold school voucher programs. Louisiana's
constitution has no Blaine Amendment. .
The state constitution has not always stopped the General Assembly in the past. Legislators in
Harrisburg in the 1980s, 1990s and, most recently, in 2005, voted themselves an immediate pay raise in
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direct violation of the state constitution.

Nevertheless, state courts upheld the pay increase laws, which also included pay raises for state judges,
but voters issued a different verdict in 2006 by voting out several incumbent legislators who had
approved the unconstitutional pay increase.
Pennsylvania is not the only government that sometimes ignores its constitution. At the federal level, the
constitutional requirement for Congress to declare war before presidents send American troops overseas
into harm's way has long been abandoned.
The Fourth Amendment's requirement that police get a warrant issued by a judge when presented with
probable clause in order to search homes and property has been ignored in legislation such as the Patriot
Act.
Most famously, the U.S. Supreme Court during World War II upheld the federal government's program
to deprive U.S. citizens of Japanese ancestry of their liberty and property without due process oflaw as
required by the Fifth Amendment. More recently, some have questioned President Obama's view that
forcing all Americans to purchase private health insurance is constitutionally permitted through
Congress's power to regulate interstate commerce. .
In my Introduction to American National Government course, I explain to students that constitutions
have three basic functions. Constitutions set up a government, they say what a government can do, and
they say what a government cannot do.
The Pennsylvania Constitution says thattaxpayer money raised for public schools.cannot be used to
support religious schools. Our legislators in Harrisburg must acknowledge that in their attempts to create
a school voucher program.
. Robert Spee1, Ph.D., is an associate.professor of political science at Penn.State Behrend.
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (Pennsylvania)
February 22, 2011 Tuesday

SOONER EDITION
PA. PUBLIC WORKERS KEEPING EYES ON WISCONSIN;

UNIONS EXPECT SMALL FIGHTS WITH STATE'S GOP LEADERSHIP
BYLINE: Timothy McNulty, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
SECTION: STATE; Pg. A-I
LENGTH: 603 words
Though Republicans have taken over the Capitol and the state faces a massive deficit, Pennsylvania's
public sector unions do not seem headed for a Wisconsin-style budget brouhaha with GOP leadership.
But they do expect smaller fights on a number of other fronts this year.
Teacher unions see the first bill introduced to the state Senate in2011 -- a school tuition voucher
proposal -- as an attack on their members. Unionized clerks for the Liquor Control Board have declared
"war" on impending efforts.to privatize state stores. In Pittsburgh, transit workers are steeling
themselves for a bill from House Speaker Mike Turzai to open Allegheny County transit services to the
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private sector.
When Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker proposed eating away at his state's $3.6 billion deficit partly by
increased pension and health care contributions -- matched with it rollback of collective bargaining
rights -- it-triggered mass protests and a walkout by Democratic legislators. Pennsylvania faces a similar
$4 billion budget deficit this year, but leaders from Gov. Tom Corbett on down have avoided such talk,
saying their eyes are on budget rather than labor matters.
"Our focus has been really just tightening our belts and being fiscally responsible," Mr. Turzai said
Monday. "The taxpayers are demanding more. We need to tighten our belts like the private sectoris
doing."
Labor groups are largely keeping a lid on their rhetoric, too, saying they have a better relationship with
GOP leaders in Pennsylvania than counterparts in Wisconsin, Ohio or other states primed for fights.
"We have our Republican friends unlike some of these other states, but that doesn't mean we don't have
to be vigilant," AFL-CIO spokesman Marty Marks said.
To that end a variety of public workers -- including firefighters, bus drivers and school crossing guards -
- are expected at Pittsburgh City Council this morning to receive a council proclamation praising them
for their service and pushing back on national talk about rolling back union rights.
"Public employees are getting the brunt of the criticism, when the conversation should be so much
bigger than bus drivers earning $45,000 a year," said Councilwoman Natalia Rudiak. "This isn't just
about unions, it's what it means to be middle-class in.the United States ... Or trying to maintain what
used to be a middle-class lifestyle."
Another rally among union groups in support of Wisconsin workers is expected Thursday at the U.S.
Steel.Building Downtown..
In addition to the bills already introduced that could affect nnionized workers, the budget package Mr.
Corbett presents March 8may have to tackle other loomirig contract costs facing the state. His transition.
team in December rebuffed three of state government's largest unions when they floated a trial balloon
about a contract extension, and contracts expire this year for 17 of the state's 19 employee unions.
In addition, there are underfunded municipal pension plans in Pittsburgh and elsewhere across the state
facing major difficulty.
Union agreements "are part and parcel to the fiscal challenges we're facing, because labor costs are such·
a big part of government spending," said Matthew Brouillette ofthe Commonwealth Foundation, a
conservative think tank in Harrisburg. Funding for pensions "is going to be the juggernaut going
forward, because it pays for no government services at all. They're just big old massive checks."
Mr. Marks conntered that public employees bear most pension costs and governments have not been
living up to their funding commitments.
Get ready for a lot of such back-and-forth through 2011 and beyond.
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N.J. education officials continue to worry despite Christie's proposed increase of school aid
Published: Wednesday, February 23, 2011, 6:30 AM

By Jeanette Rundquist and Kelly Heyboer/The Star-Ledger
TRENTON - Something is better than nothing.
That was the reaction in many New Jersey school districts Tuesday to Gov. Chris Christie's proposed
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$249.3 million increase of state school aid, one year after the governor slashed spending for schoolsby
$820 million.
"Is this better than cutting? Absolutely. Did we all worry that it (aid) would go down? We did. We are at
.the precipice; if aid had been cut further, there would be no way to protect all of our programs," said
Julia Walker, school board president in Westfield, where state aid was slashed by $4.5 million last year.
In Perth Amboy, School Superintendent John Rodecker said he also worried that aid might be reduced
further in the coming budget. His large, urban district lost $8 million in state aid last year. .
"Anything that's additional would be welcome," he said. "Until I see what our figures are, I can only
hope for the best."
Christie's proposed budget includes a total of $8.1 billion in state aid to schools, an increase from last
year's $7.8 billion. The bulk of the increase would come in formula aid- money that goes to districts
for things such as teachers' salaries and supplies.
Christie, in his budget speech, said every district in the state - there are about 600- will receive
increased aid. -,
The governor handed some of his largest percentage increases toward school choice and charter schools.
Aid for charter schools was increased by about 50 percent to $13.1 million. School choice aid - which
allows children to attend schools in other districts - was more than doubled to $22.3 million.
Department of Education spokesman Alan Guenther said individual districts today are expected to
receive aid figures. None will receive an increase larger than 1 percent of its total budget, he said.
In many districts, where budget preparation is in full swing, officials were hesitant to count any
increased dollars untilthey see their own aid numbers. "Until we see how it comes down, 'an increase of
$249 million' can mean many things," 'saiclMontgomery School Superintendent Earl Kim.
Christie's budget did not include any overhaul of the school funding formula, something he has hinted
at, nor did he endorse a proposal by Senate Republicans to slash funding for preschool in poor districts,
in order to boost funding in suburban districts.
The funding formula is currently before the state Supreme Court, in a motion brought by the Newark
school advocacy group Education Law.Center, which could force Christie to spend.even more on
schools. .
David Sciarra, executive director of the Education Law Center, said Christie's budget shows "another
year in which our formula remains underfunded,", and called the $249 million increase "not nearly
enough." He also rued the lack of expansion of preschool in nonurban high-needs districts.
The president of the New Jersey Education Association, meanwhile, said she was "very happy" about
the $249 million. But union president Barbara Keshishian expressed concern that it would "end up being
paid for by some other increase in the amounts that school employees are going to have to pay."
Christie's budget also covers higher education. After their budgets were slashed last year, the state's
public college presidents were relieved to hear the state's four-year public colleges wouldn't be cut
again this year. The governor's budget proposal calls for $714 million in operating aid for the four-year
schools, the same as last year.
Unlike last year, Christie does not plan to impose'atuitioncap··onthepublicJoupyear·colleges. Last
year, the schools were forced to keep their toition hikes to 4 percent or less, a number college officials
complained was chosen arbitrarily. Earlier this year, Christie conceded the tuition caps may have been .
unwise and the four-year schools should set their own toition.
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
February 20, 2011
A Quiet Family Fund Creates a Loud Buzz
BYLINE: Caroline Preston

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SECTION: NEWS; Giving
LENGTH: 1356 words
The Walton Family Foundation has the deep pockets of a philanthropy big-leaguer but the public
profile of a much smaller institution. .
Second only to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in its spending to overhaul schools, the
Bentonville, Ark, grant maker has long shunned publicity. The 23-year-old foundation, which also
gives big sums to environmental issues, published its first annual report in 2007 and rarely grants
interviews.
But at a philanthropy conference last year and in an interview with The Chronicle, Carrie Walton
Penner, a trustee and granddaughter of Sam Walton, founder of Wal-Mart and co-founder With his
wife, Helen, of the philanthropy, spoke about the fund's approach to grant making.
Ms. Penner, who. is one of 11 board members (all family members) to lead the foundation,
described how the grant maker has been taking a more advocacy-oriented approach to education in
recent years-and how its footprint on environmental causes is growing, too.
The Walton Family Foundation gave out $378-million in 2009, the most recent year for which data
are available. Of that amount, $134-million went to education and $55-million to freshwater and
marine conservation, its two environmental concerns.
The Walton fund also makes grants to nonprofits that seek to improve life in Arkansas and the
Mississippi Delta and gave $lOO-million to the Walton Family Charitable Support Foundation, a
separate fund that supports colleges and university scholarships.
The family foundation has a staff of 30 and, as oflast year, an endowment of $2.2-billion. (Its
assets could grow if it received money from the estate of Helen Walton, who died in 2007. That
year, Forbes estimated her net worth at $16.4-billion. A foundation spokesman declined to discuss
.. Ms. Walton's estate.)
Choice in Education
The Walton philanthropy's biggest push has focused on changing the education system. Its leaders·
have long been driven by the belief that giving low-income parents a choice of where they send
their children to school is key to improving U. S. education. The foundation has backed charter
schools and vouchers and, in recent years, has been putting more money into research on such
efforts and projects that persuade parents and policy makers to adopt its education strategies.
About five years ago, the Walton foundation expanded its giving to back environmental causes. It
seemed a natural decision because many Waltons were supporting environmental groups on their
own, says Ms. Penner.
"We all grew up floating down lakes and spending a lot of time outside," she says.
After inviting a broad range of environmental experts to talk about their work, the family settled on
two grant-making priorities-conserving marine-life-globally and preserving freshwater in-the
Colorado and Mississippi river basins. Board members chose those priorities over climate change
and other global issues because they felt they could make a bigger difference. They were also
convinced that Wal-Mart, which has no official relationship with the foundation, was doing more to
fight climate change by reducing its carbon footprint than a private foundation could.
Says Ms. Penner of climate change: "There was a lot of focus on it and it's a tough one to get your
arms around."
Family members also deepened their understanding of environmental challenges by visiting
projects. Sylvia Earle, explorer-in-residence at the National Geographic Society and a former staff
member at Conservation International who worked with the family, describes diving in Baja
California and the Galapagos with several family members. "They literally take the plunge and get
wet."
Maintaining the Fish Supply
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Experts say the Walton foundation has chosen environmental concerns that have had trouble
attracting private money.
It is by far the biggest backer of an effort by Conservation International and other environmental
charities to encourage local people, governments, and businesses in Indonesia and the Eastern
tropical region of the Pacific to protect ocean life. In the United States, the Walton foundation is the
largest private donor to efforts by a group of charities to restore the Mississippi River Delta's
disappearing.wetlands..
Ms. Earle says oceans have traditionally received less attention and money than efforts to save
animals and the earth, but they are starting to draw more attention, in part thanks to the Waltons'
giving.
The foundation is sometimes drawn to market-based solutions. For example, it is helping the
Environmental Defense Fund develop catch-share programs, which allocate to fishermen a certain
share of fish and eliminate their financial incentive to catch more than their share.
Ms. Penner says that the trustees. also look for programs that empower people, an analogy that takes
a literal turn when talking about fishing.
"Instead of handing out fish, we're growing the pool of fish," she says. "We're trying to find an
impact not by handing out anything but by assisting."
Lagging in Disclosure
While the Walton fund has a much smaller staff than most of its peers, grantees say the foundation
seems much more like a professional grant maker than a family-run operation.
"Originally our founder would get John Walton on the phone and he'd talk to him and they'd make a
.. decision together;" .saysDerrcll Bradford; executive director of Excellent Education for Everyone,
in Newark, N.J., referring to Ms. Penner's uncle, who led the fund's education work until his death
five years ago. "It's not like that anymore."
Grantees say the foundation is focusing more and more on measuring the results of its work.
"It's becoming increasingly important to them," says Keith Lawrence, seascapes director at
Conservation.International's global marine division.
Some describe the fund as fairly hands-off. Others, however, say foundation employees work
closely with them on shaping and carrying out their projects.
"They are very intentional," says Peter C. Groff, president ofthe National Alliance for Public
Charter Schools. Susan Kaderka, regional executive director of the South Central Regional Center
of the National Wildlife Federation, says: "They are pretty involved, in a good way."
Nonprofit leaders say they are unsure if it would help their causes if Walton's leaders were vocal,
like Bill and Melinda Gates and Eli Broad have been about their vision for a better education
system.
"There are obvious benefits to having that kind of advocacy and public support," says Frederick M.
Hess, an education scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. But he adds that it can also fuel
concerns about billionaires' influence over the public agenda.
. Some philanthropy watchdogs, however, criticize the fund's approach; AarorrDorfman; executive
director of the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy, in Washington, notes that the fund
doesn't share on its Web site information on its employees, board members, conflict-of-interest
policies, or commitment to diversity.
"They were late to adopt even the most basic method of transparency used by foundations, the
annual report," he says. "They still lag far behind the field in virtually all measures of
transparency. "
The foundation, however, disputes that claim, saying it demonstrates transparency by providing
annual reports and descriptions of all its grants online.
Board Relationships
A board with 11 family members could produce friction. But Ms. Penner says trustees avoid
disagreements because they work with a consultant and tiptoe into new program areas.
For two years, the foundation made some small, experimental grants in the environment, an
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approach it takes when considering a new program area. Supporting a new issue isn't out of the .
question, Ms. Penner says, although nothing is on the horizon now.
"We have a good process for communicating," she says. "At the end of the day, these issues that we're
trying to address and the changes we're trying to be part of helping to come to fruition are bigger than
anyone of us."
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•• The Assembly pulled an all-nlghter 'on the budget repair bill, as members slowly waded DC Wrap
through a slew of Oem amendments that could reach 200. Budget Blog
Quorum Call
All the Oem amendments were tabled. At our deadline, the body had dispensed of 14 WisOpinion.com
amendments. . WisBusiness.com
Derns say they have as many as 200 amendments, and the session is expected to stretch well
into the day and maybe into tomorrow. .
See more in the Budget Blog:

•• Gov. Scott Walker told Wisconsinites last night tnat: his' austerity measuresfor state' .
employees were needed for the state to finally put its fiscal house in order and avoid the
mistakes of his predecessor in punting the problem into the future.
As a standoff with Senate Oems finished its sixth day, Walker also warned of dire consequences
if action isn't taken soon on his budget repair bill, including layoffs.
"What we need now more than ever, is a commitment to the future," Walker said in what he bilied
as a fireside chat with Wisconsin citizens broadcast live on statewide TV.
Walker is to speak later this afternoon at WMC's annual Business Day in Madison at the Monona
Terrace convention center. .
See Walker's prepared remarks:

http://www.wispolitics.comlindex.iml?Article=227823
•• Senate Minority Leader Mark Miller called on the governor to accept the concessions
offered by public employees, saying it's a compromise that "any'good'leadershould' be-
able to recognize and seize."
In the official Oem response to the guv's fireside chat, Miller, D-Monona, said the budget repair
bill was a "railroad" and Senate Oems left the state to use a "constitutional procedure" to allow the
public's voice to be heard on the proposal.
"They have spoken loud and clear. They want to keep the rights that they have had for so long,"
Miller said from lIIinois. .
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Assembly Democrats, meanwhile, called Gov. Walker's address tonight "misleading," and said the
governor still refuses to acknowledge that union leaders have agreed to the benefit concessions
proposed in the budget repair bill.
'We haven't seen that the governor has been willing to listen to the tens of thousands of people
that have come to this building," said Rep. Donna Seidel, D-Wausau, in a press conference
responding to Walker's address.
See Miller's prepared text:

http://wispolitics.com/1006/110222Miller speech text.pdf
•• The Senate has another short calendar on tap today as Dems continue to boycott the
Capitol.
With Dem senators still hiding in Illinois, Republican senators are due to convene at 11 a.m.
The chamber is scheduled to vote on a resolution to commend the Wisconsin Badgers football
. team for their Rose Bowl appearance and legislation that would repeal a racial profiling law Dems
approved last session. .
Republicans yesterday made several moves to Increase pressure on Dems to return.
See the calendar:

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•• Former Green Bay Packer Gilbert Brown is scheduled today to speak at a rally of
opponents to Walker's budget repair bill.
Brown and SMWIA National President Mike Sullivan Will march to the Capitol Rotunda at 11:30
a.m. accompanied by IAFF bagpipers and SMWIA and UFCW members. Brown and Sullivan are
scheduled to speak to the crowd at 11:50.
International Brotherhood ofTeamsters President James P. Hoffa will also address the crowd
tomorrow at a time to be determined.
Meanwhile, union protests spread to other states, most notabiy Ohio.
-. Just more than a month into his first term, GOP U.S. Rep. Reid Ribble is holding a kickoff
eventfor his 2012 re-election campaig n.
U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan, R·Janesville, is listed as the special guest for this evening's event.
See more in the calendar below.
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Mark your calendars for luncheons with Joint Finance Committee co-chairs Rep. Robin Vos and
Sen. Alberta Darling (March 24), and U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan (April 18).
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- Walker makes case to state: address reiterated his collective
bargaining limits are about balancing budgets, avoiding thousands of
layoffs, not "a battle with unions ... our partners in economic
development," called Dem senators to return and vote. Senate Minority
Leader Miller said "unions are willing to make concessions on pension
and heaith care costs In order to help close the deficit," should keep
bargaining rights.
http://www.wrn.com/2011/02/walker-makes-case-to-state-audi01#more-37632
- Wis. governor refuses to give in to protests: Dem Rep. Mason to

protesters, "They're trying to portray you as rioters .... They're
afraid of what you have to say," says Waiker may yield. Walker: "You
can't negotiate in good faith if you don't have anything to give,"
expects layoff notices will pressure Dems to return. Sen. Miller gave
Dem response. "Once you have rights, theyshoutd-beprotected." WI,
OH protesters comment. [by Keen]
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- Committee advances voter ID bill, without Dems: Chair Sen. Lazich

Insisted Dem Sen. Erpenbach be present to vote, "If you are in
liiinois you can be here in two hours; I can wait." Erpenbach asked
Lazlch to extend a courtesy phone-vote, as he haddone for her.
Lazlch held vote and adjourned meeting, over Erpenbach's voice, "i
vote no. Erpenbach votes no." Dem Sen. Coggs also absent. Bill could
, hit Senate floor as soon as Thursday.
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- Legislative staiemate continues into pre-dawn hours as talk goes on

... Assembly attempted to work through dozens of amendments proposed by
Democrats -- most of them meant to stall the progress of Gov. Scott
Walker's controversial budget repair bill.... As of about 6:30 a.m,
Wednesday, the Assembly had made it through 13 of 78 amendments. '
Walker, Speaker Fitzgerald, Dem Reps. Barca and Clark comment.
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- Senate standoff continues: Senate Org Chair Fitzgerald permitted

Dem Sens. Miller, Hansen to attend by phone, but no speeches, "It's
not a place for a statement about why you're out of state, why you're
in Chicago." Miller asked for 30 minute notice on Committee
meetings. Fitzgerald: "I don't think you're going to get 30 minutes
notice, I'm just wondering If I'm going to let you participate any
more."
http://www.wrn.com/20 11/02/senate-stand\:>ff:continues-audiol
- Recall launched for eight Democratic Senators: Utah-based American

Patriot Recall Coalition began recall of Risser, Miller, Holperin,
Taylor, Coggs, Wirch, Lassa, Hansen, alleging "gross dereliction of
duty." Has 60 days to collect roughly 16,000 signatures for each
recall.
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- Patriot groups [led by Kim Simac] vow Holperin's recall, Senator

not surprised, says Dems likely to return soon. Holperin: "We will
show up, we will vote and the bill will pass. We have to make surethe
rights of all are protected.... this Is our alternative to the '
filibuster," Dems to meet Monday to decide on when to return. Simac
comments.
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- Tea Party Finds Senate Democrats: police summoned to northern IL

hotel when Tea Partier refused to leave lobby. Dem Sen. Larson: "I
think it's interesting they wouldn't tell me who they were," worried
over safety, threats, no yield on Waiker bill, "other things in this
bill, no bid contracts, things where medicare would be at risk." Dems
left for new secret location, talking with reporters, staff.
http://www.wisn.com/r/26958711/detail.html
- Wisconsin fight surfaces on Beacon Hill where members of Tea Party

and unions clash ... estimated 1,000 union members and allies rallied ...
had pre-printed signs with the words, "Stand Up for Wisconsin
Workers." ... 100 Tea Party protesters. Gov. Patrick late Tuesday
addressed the crowd, "we don't need to attack public sector workers to
make change for the people ... Unions are good ... Keep your chin up."
http://www.boston. com/newsllocal/breaking news/2011/02/wisconsin fight. html
- Wisconsin and Indiana Democrats go on lam: Party in lllinois? 37

of 40 IN House Dems goes AWOL, block quorum on "righHowork" bill·
banning mandatory "kick-in fees." In WI, Assembly Dems plan 100
amendments, doc slips pose ethics problems for protesters, protests in
MI where Gov. Snyder vows "mutual outcome where we can all benefit,"
WI! workers without bargaining rights picketiilg for higher waqes,
http://www.stateline.org/live/details/story?contentld=552634
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-- 5 p.m. -- U.S. Rep. Reid Ribble 2012 kick-off event, Green BayCountry Club, 2400 Klondike
Road, Green Bay ,
State Government
-- 9:30 a.m. -- Senate Committee on Financial Institutions and Rural Issues public hearing, 400
Southeast, State Capitol
http://committeeschedule.legis.state.wi.us/file s/HearingNotices/11-02-23-0930-2011 SF 11-
15194.html
-- 9:30 a.m. -- Supreme Court open administrative conference, Supreme Court Hearing Room,
State Capitol
http://wispolitics.com/index.iml?Article=227297
-- 9:35 a.m. ~- Senate Committee on Financial Institutions and Rural Issues executive session,
400 Southeast, State Capitol
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-- 10 a.m. -- Natural Resources Board, GEF 2; Room G09, 101 S. Webster St., Madison
http://dnr.wi. gov/org/nrboard/2011/February/02-11-NRB-Agenda. pdf
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-- 9 a.m. -- Transit Planning 101, Pyle Center, 702 Langdon St., Madison
http://www.today.wisc.edu/eventslview/37301
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•• Gov. Scott Walker this evening will say his budget measures are about one thing ••
balancing the budget.
"The legislation I've put forward is about one thing. It's about balancing our budget now and in
the future," Walker will say, according to excerpts of his speech his office released ahead of
the 6 p.m. TV address.
Walker also planned to recount how in 1985 he was inspired to public service during the
American Legion's Badger Boys State program by the military veterans and educators who
"showed the honor in service others." .
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•• Sen. Mark Miller will do a Oem response to the guv's speech, according to Oem aides.
Also, U.S. Rep. Tammy Baldwin, O-Madison, will be available in the North Hearing Room
along with Assembly Oems to offer their thoughts.
•- The Assembly late this afternoon was slowly working its way through dozens of Oem
amendments.
Things got off to a contentious start as Assembly Dems drew up a motion to remove Speaker
Pro Tem Bill Kramer, R-Waukesha, after Republteane enFridaytrteo-te-meve-the budget
repair bill to an unamendable stage without them on the floor. The motion was withdrawn, but
Minority Leader Peter Barca, O-Kenosha, said he'll bring back the anti-Kramer motion for a
vote if rules are violated again.
"It is an outrage. It was a stain upon this body," Barca said.

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. Barca said there were four violations of rules on Friday, including open meetings laws by
starting before the. announced 5 p.m. start time and not recognizing members who indicate
they wanted to speak.
"They are expected to hold to the rules, the traditions, the customs of this body," he said.
During.his comments.Barca took offense. to Rep. Kevin Peterson's reaction ..
"You can laugh. Do you think this is funny?" Barca said, and challenged Peterson, R-
Waupaca, to a debate at his local editorial board on the issue.
Peterson said he'd gladly accept the challenge, and said Barca was only engaging in more
stalling tactics.
"I see we're starting off on the rightfoot," Assembly Speaker Jeff Fitzgerald, R-Horicon, said.
Fitzgerald said this was "one more delay" from the bems.
"I did the right thing and apparently I'm not going to get any credit," Fitzgerald said of his
agreement to move the bill back to the amendable stage. "Maybe we did start too early ... but
we took it back to the amendable stage."
-- In the Senate, Republicans began taking a series of steps designed to pressure Oems
to return to the Capitol.as their boycott.moved into its. sixth. day. .
That included a warning·from Majority· Leader-Scott Fitzgerald·thathe·may·nolonger allow

= Oem leaders to participate in Senate Org meetings via phone and a move to require missing
senators to pick up their paychecks in person on the Senate floor.
-- Sen. Mary Lazich this afternoon refused to allow Sen. Jon Erpenbach to vote via
phone in committee on legislation to require voters to show a photo 10 at the polls.
In today's Transportation and Elections Committee exec, the Oem senator tried to ask several
questions about changes to the legislation included in a substitute amendment.
But Lazich, the committee chair, cut him off, asking when he would return to the Capitol and
meet the call of the house issued last week.
Erpenbach reminded Lazich that she had often been afforded the courtesy of participating in
committee hearing while out of state via the phone. But Lazich said this was different because
there was an open call of the house.
'''1 won't extend courtesies to unethical behavior," Lazich said, her voice rising as she went
back and forth with Erpenbach.
She several times pushed him to say when he would return to the Capitol.
"How soon I can get there is up to your governor," Erpenbach shot back.
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The bill was approved 3-0 by the three Republicans present.
-. Senate Org voted by paper ballot today 3-2 along party lines to require any senator
absent without leave for at least two days to pick up their paychecks, per diems or any
expense check in person on the chamber floor.
The ballot also suspends direct deposit for any lawmaker absent and specifies the majority
leader will only provide the checks to the missing senators and only on the Senate floor during
a session day.
See the results of the Org vote:

http:/Lwww.wispolitics.com/1 006/largeL11 0222paycheckresult.pdf
-- Fitzgerald also warned Oem leaders Mark Miller and Dave Hansen that he won't
tolerate any more speeches during Senate Org.
Fitzgerald, R-Juneau, opened Senate Org by telling the two Oems that being allowed to
participate in the meetings via phone during their self-imposed exile was a courtesy. But he
warned he would no longer extend that courtesy if they continued to use the committee as a
platform to make statements about the guv's budget repair bill.
"It's not a place for a statement about why you're out of state, why you're in Chicago,"
Fitzgerald told them today.
, Hansen thanked Fitzgerald for the courtesy, but clarified he's not in Chicago:··
-- Senate Org approved a calendar for tomorrow that includes a resolution

congratulating the Wisconsin Badgers and legislation to repeal a racial profiling law
approved by Oems last session.
•• Republican Rep. John Nygren of Marinette today called on Oem senators to return the
portion of their salaries for the days they've spent out of state boycotting a budget
repair bill vote.
Nygren particularly ripped Hansen, D-Green Bay, saying the "resounding messages" from his
constituents over the weekend were to continue fighting for taxpayers and to tell the Senate
Oems to get back to work.
•• WEAC President Mary Bell says in new radio ads running in the districts of seven
Senate Republicans that "denying workers their voice goes too far."
"We must retain our voice because a teacher's working conditions are a child's learning
conditions," Bell says in the spots.
Bell says if teachers lose their voice, decisions will be dictated by politicians without input from
educations who work with students.
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"Sen. Luther Olsen, you cannot let this happen in our great state," Bell says in one of the
spots. "It's time for you to step up and show leadership to represent the working families of
central Wisconsin on this important matter. Work with us to find a solution. Let's move
Wisconsin forward."
The.spots also.target Terry, Moulton of Chippewa Falls, Van Wanggaard of Racine, Dan
Kapanke of La Crosse, Sheila Harsdorf of River Falls, Mike Ellis of Neenah and Bob Cowles of
Green Bay.
Listen to the spots in AdWatch:

•• The Club for Growth sent out a message to its supporters asking for their financial
help to run two TV ads boosting Walker's austerity measures.
In one, dubbed "Stay the Course," the narrator says Walker campaigned on making
government live within its means and he's delivering on his promise even though the special
interests don't like it.
"Call Gov. Walker;" the narrator says. "Tell him to stay the course, keep his promise and
continue fighting for Wisconsin taxpayers."
In the other, the narrator says people all across Wisconsin are making concession to keep
their jobs, but public employees haven't had to sacrifice. The narrator says public employees
pay "next to nothing" for their pensione-and a fraction-of-their health care-costs. It urges
viewers to call their legislators and support the budget repair bill.
"It's time for state employees. to. pay-thelr, fair share,justlikethe rest.cf.ue," the.spot.concludes.
•- The CFG also is running radio ads targeting Oem Sen. Bob Wirch of Kenosha and is
doing robocalls in some Dem senators' districts.
It declined to release the spots or the robocalls .
•- Rep. Gordon Hintz clarified today that he was never asked to turn over any money for
a bond of the municipal ordinance violation he now faces,
Various media reported yesterday that Hintz had paid a $2,667.50 bond, citing on-line court
records. But Hintz's office pointed out the CCAP page also shows Hintz has paid no deposit
and said the bond is the maximum penalty he could face.
Hintz has a court hearing set for 8:30 a.m. April 27.
*See the updated statement:

htlp:llwww.wispolitics.comlindex.iml?Article=227732
*See the CCAP page:
http://bit.ly/hluh4S
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-- Susan Crawford, Gov. Jim Doyle's chief legal counsel in 2009 and 2010, has joined the
Madison law firm Cullen Weston Pines & Bach.
Crawford will be practicing with the firm's energy and telecommunications and litigation
.practices, focusing. on admlnlstratlve, utility, environmental, lobbying and political law..
See the release:

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Appleton Post-Crescent: Speaker vows to pass bill

http://www.postcrescent.com/article/20110222/APCO101/1102221 08/Speaker-vows-pass-bill
Appleton Post-Crescent: Paychecks to be withheld from absent Wisconsin senators

http://www.postcrescent.com/artic\e/20110222/APC01 01/302230030/Paychecks-withheld-
from-absent-Wisconsin-senators
WISN: State Senate committee passes voter 10 bill

http://www.wisn.com/politics/26956231/detail.html
Wisconsin State Journal: After friendly start, Assembly session turns ugly
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Wisconsin State Journal: UW Regents to hold special meeting on possible UW-Madison split
http://host.madison.eomlwsj/newsllocal/education/on campus/article 472f8b66-3ece-11 eO-
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Wisconsin State Journal: Walker warns state workers layoff notices could come next week if
.. billisn't.passed .
http://host.madison.com/wsilnewsllocal/govt-and-politics/article 551d34c2-3e8f-11 eO-8f91-
001 cc4c03286. html
Wisconsin State Journal: Labor group calls for general strike if budget bill is approved
http://host.madison.com/wsilnews/local/govt-and-politics/article 64c8d7a8-3e8c-11 eO-9911-
001cc4c002eO.html .
AP: Protesters track down Wis. Oems hiding in III.

http://host.madison.com/news/state and regional/article e4c8382e-3bc2-5a4f-8e95-
8fOb96baaff7 .htm!
AP: Democrats don't show up in Wis. Senate

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AP: Utah group begins recall effort for 8 Democrats

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9464253b1bOf.html
CNN: Ohio governor: Collective bargaining bill not meant to kill unions
http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/02/21/ohio.budget.kasichlindex.html
CNN: Obama plugs small business in Ohio

http://www.cnn.com/2011/POLITICS/02/22/obama.business/index.html
CNN: Emanuel aims for Chicago victory

.b.ttP://www.crin.com/2011/POLlTICS/OZ/22/i1linois.elections/index.html
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Road, Green Bay
State Government
-- 9:30 a.m. -- Senate Committee on Financial Institutions and Rural Issues public hearing, 400
Southeast, State Capitol
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-- 9:30 a.m. -- Supreme Court open administrative conference, Supreme Court Hearing Room,
State Capitol .
-- 9:35 a.m. -- Senate Committee on Financial Institutions and Rural Issues executive session,
40.0. Southeast, .State Capitol,
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15195.html .
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Ristow, Nate - GOV
From: GOV Press

To: Bov Press
SUbject: Response to DPWUe
February 22, 2011

Response to DPW Lie
Madison-Today the Democratic Party of Wisconsin held a press conference to spread a lie about
Governor Walker stifling debate. DPW claimed Governor Walker blocked the website
www.defendwisconsin.com from internet access at the Capitol.
... The Department of Administration blocks all new websites shortly after they are created, until they go
through a software approval program that unblocks them. Within 30 minutes of being notified this
website was blocked, DOA circumvented the software and immediately made the website accessible.
In response to DPW's lie, Governor Walker's spokesman, Cullen Werwie, released the following
statement: .
Over the last week and a half Governor Walker has repeatedly talked about protestors having every
.. right to have their voice heard. Hoursfo» the State Capitot-havebeen changed to·allow protestors
extensive access to the statehouse to voice their opinion.
Debate and participation in the democratic process are good for our state. Senate Democrats should
try it out.
The Democratic Party should spend less time lying about Governor Walker, and more time trying to get
their AWOL State Senators back to Wisconsin. Of course DPW won't do that because they are using the
Senate Democrat's taxpayer[untiedvacation to illinoistofitlthetrcampoiqnccffers.
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Ristow, Nate· GOV
From: GOV Press

To: GOV Press
Subject: Text Of the Governor's Address
February 22, 2011

STRICTLY EMBARGOED UNTIL 6:10pm
Text of the Governor's Address

Madison-Below is the text of Governor Walker's conversation about our current fiscal year challenges,
the divisions which have arisen over the past week and his positive vision for moving Wisconsin forward.
Good evening.
Wisconsin is showing the rest of the country how to have a passionate, yet civil debate about our
finances. That's a very Midwestern trait and something we should be proud of. I pray, however, that this
civility will continue as people pour into our state from all across America.
First, let me be clear: I have great respect for those who have chosen a career in government. I really do.
In 1985, when ,I was a high school junior in the small town of Delavan, I was Inspired to pursue public
__ service after I attended the American Legion's Badger Boys State program. The military veterans and
educators who put on that week-long event showed the honor in serving others.
Tonight, I thank the 300,OOO-plus state and local government employees who showed up for work today
and did their jobs well. We appreciate it. If you take only one message away tonight, it's that we all
respect the work that you do.
I also understand how concerned many government workers are about their futures. I've listened to
.their comments and read their em ails.
I listened to the educator from Milwaukee who wrote to me about her concerns about the legislation
and what it might mean for her classroom.
That's why last week we agreed to make changes to the bill to address many of those issues.
And I listened to others like the correctional officer in Chippewa Falls who em ailed me arguing that
bargaining rights for public employee unions are the only way to ensure that workers get a fair say in
their working conditions.
I understand and respect those concerns. It's important to remember that many of the rights we're
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talking about don't come from collective bargaining. They come from the civil service system in
Wisconsin. That law was passed in 1905 (long before collective bargaining) and it will continue long
after our plan is approved.
You see, despite a lot of the rhetoric we've heard over the past 11 days the bill I put forward isn 't aimed
at state workers, and it certainly Isn't a battle with unions. If it was, we would have eliminated collective
bargaining entirely or we would have gone after the private-sector unions.
But, we did not because they are our partners in economic development. We need them to help us put
250,000 people to work in the private sector over the next four years.
The legislationI've putforward. is. about one thing. It's about balancing our.budget now -- and in the
future. Wisconsin faces a 137 million dollar deficit for the remainder of this fiscal year and a 3.6 billion
dol/ar deflcitfor the upcoming budget.
Our bill Is about protecting the hardworking taxpayer. It's about Wisconsin families trying to make ends
meet and help their children.
People like the woman from Wausau who wrote me saying "I'm a single parent of two children, one of
whom is autistic. Ihave been-intimately involved in my schooldistrict, but-t-can no longer afford the
taxes I pay. I am in favor of everyone paying for benefits, as I have to."
It's also about the small business owner who told me about the challenges he faces just making payrol!
each week. His employees pay much larger premiums than we are asking because that's how they keep
the company going and that's how they protect their jobs. '
Or the substitute teacher here in Madison, who wrote to me last week about having to sit at home
unable to workbecauseher untotrhad closed tbescnaordowtrtirpratest:
She sent me an email that went on to say, "I was given no choice in joining the union and I am forced to
pay dues ... I am missing out on pay today... Ifeel like Ihave no voice."
I assure you that she does have a voice.
And so does the factory worker in Janesville who was laid off nearly two years ago. He's a union guy in a
union town who asks simply why everyone else has to sacrlfice except those in government.
Last week, I traveled the state visiting manufacturing plants and talking to workers - just like the guy
from Janesville. Many of them are paying twenty-five to fifty percent of their health care premiums.
Most, had 401k plans with limited or no match from the company.
My brother's In the same situation. He works as a banquet manager and occasional bartender at a hotel
and my sister-in-law works for a department store. They have two beautiful kids.
In every way, they are a typical middle-class family here in Wisconsin. David mentioned to me that he
pays nearly $800 a month for his health insurance and the little he can set aside for his 401k.
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He -like so many other workers across Wisconsin - would love a deai like the benefits we are pushing in
this budget repair biil.
That's because what we are asking for is modest - at least to those outside of government.
Our measure asks for a 5.8% contribution to the pension and a 12.6% contribution for the health
insurance premium. Both are weil below the national average.
And this is just one part of our comprehensive plan to balance the state's 3.6 billion doilar budget
deficit.
.. Now.some have questioned why we have to reform coilective bargaining to balance the budget. The
answer is simple the system is broken: it costs taxpayers serious money - particularly at the local level.
As a former county official, I know that first hand.
For years, I tried to use modest changes in pension and health insurance contributions as a means of
balancing our budget without massive layoffs or furloughs. On nearly every occasion, the local unions
(empowered by coilective bargaining agreements) told me to go ahead and layoff workers. That's not
acceptable to me.
Here's another example: in Wisconsin, many local school dIstricts are required to buy their health
insurance through the WEA Trust (whIch is the state teachers union's company). When our bill passes,
these school districts can opt to switch into the state plan and save $68 million per year. Those savings
could be used to pay for more teachers and put more money into the classroom to help our kids.
Some have also suggested that Wisconsin raise taxes on corporations and people with high-incomes.
Weil-- Governor Doyle and the Legislature did that: two years ago. In fact they passed a budget-repair
bill (injustone day, mind you) that included a biilion-doilar tax increase:
Instead of raising taxes, we need to control government spending to balance our budget.
Two years ago, many of the same Senate Democrats who are hiding out in another state approved a
.biennial budqet that not only included higher taxes - it included more them two billion doilars in one-
time federal stimulus aid.
That money was supposed to be for one-time costs for things like roads and bridges. Instead, they used
it as a short-term fix to balance the last state budget. Not surprisingly, the state now faces a deficit for
the remainder of this fiscal year and a 3.6 billion doilar hole for the budget starting July 1st.
What we need now more than ever, is a commitment to the future.
As more and more protesters come in from Nevada, Chicago and elsewhere, I am not going to ailow
their voices to overwhelm the voices of the millions of taxpayers from across the state who think we're
doing the right thing. This is a decision that Wisconsin will make.
Fundamentaily, that's what we were elected to do. Make tough decisions. Whether we like the outcome
or not, our democratic institutions cailfor us to participate. That is why I am asking the missing Senators
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to come back to work.
Do the job you were elected to do. You don't have to like the outcome, or even vote yes, but as part of
the world's greatest democracy, you should be here, In Madison, at the Capitol.
The missing Senate Democrats must know that their failure to come to work will lead to dire
consequences very soon. Failure to act on this budget repair bill means (at least) 15 hundred state
employees will be laid off before the end ofJune. if there is no agreement by July ist, another 5-6
thousand state workers -- as wefJ as 5-6 thousand local government employees would be also laid off
But, there is a way to avoid these layoffs and other cuts. The 14 State Senators who are staying outside
.. of Wisconsin as we.speak can come home and do their job.
We are broke because time and time again politicians of both parties ran from the tough decisions and
punted them down the road for another day.. We can no longer do that, because, you see, what we're
really talking about today Is our future.
The future of my children, of your children, of the children of the single mother from Wausau that I
mentioned earlier.
Like you, I want my two sons to grow up In a state at least as great as the Wisconsin I grew up In.
More than 162 years ago, our ancestors approved Wisconsin's constitution. They believed in the power
of hard work and determination and they envisioned a new state with limitless potential.
Ourfounders were pretty smart. They understood that It is through frugality and moderation in
government that wewill see freedom and prosperity for our people.
Now is our time to once again seize that potential. We will do so at this turning point in our state's
history by restoring fiscal responsibility that fosters prosperity for today - and for future generations.
Thank you for joining me tonight. May God richly bless you anrJ your family and may God continue to
bless the great State of Wisconsin.
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Ristow, Nate - GOV
From: .Archer, Cynthia - DOA

Sent: Tuesday, February 22,20119:10 AM
To: Schrimpf, Chris - GOV; Werwie, Cullen J - GOV; Gilkes, Keith - GOV; Schutt, Eric - GOV; Murray,
. RyanM- Gml .
Cc: Huebsch, Mike - DOA
Subject: More info today coming.
We will get statewide numbers today for paid union time. I suspect the numbers will be far more impressive.
From: Schrimpf, Chris - GOV

Sent: Tuesday, February 22,2011 08:16 AM
To: Werwie, Cullen J - GOV; Gilkes, Keith - GOV; Schutt, Eric - GOV; Archer, Cynthia - DOA; Murray, Ryan M -
GOV' ,
Subject: RE: Draft release for tomorrow early AM: Collective Bargaining is a Fiscal Issue Part 2
I slightly edited. I think we need to get this out soon. We need to keep up the drumbeat of collective bargaining
being fiscal. Please send any edits asap.
Chris Schrimpf
Communications Director
Office ofthe Governor
Press Office: 608-267-7303
Email: chris.schrimpfiiiiwisconsin.gov
From: Werwie, Cullen J - GOV

Sent: Monday, February 21,2011 8:58 PM
To: Gilkes, Keith - GOV; Schutt, Eric - GOV; Archer, Cynthia - DOA; Murray, Ryan M - GOV; Schrimpf, Chris - GOV
Subject: Draft reiease for tomorrow early AM: Collective Bargaining is a Fiscal Issue Part 2
February 21, 2011

Collective Bargaining is a Fiscal Issue Part 2

Example #1 Paid-Time ofHor Union Activities

employees receive salary and benefits for doing union business. Ofthe fourteen, three are on full-time

Because of collecting bargaining, unions have included provisions in employee contracts that have a
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and requiring notice and approval by the union prior to scheduling changes. As County Executive
Walker attempted to reduce work hours based on budget pressures and workload requirements by
instituting a 35 hour work week to avoid layoffs, which the union opposed. Additionally, government
statement:
Unfortunately for the millions of taxpayers who are currently paying these Senators' salaries and
benefits, Senator Julie Lassa and her 13 colleagues decided to take a 6 day vacation to l/Iinois to get 'to
know a lot of my fellow caucus members.'
,Wisconsin working to balance the state budget. Senators should return to Wisconsin and make their
voice heard through the democratic process by casting their vote.
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Ristow, Nate· GOV

To: GOV DL All Staff
SUbject: Morning News Update 02.22.11
Office of Governor Scott Walker - Morning News Ugdate for Tuesday, February 22, 2011
News Summary:
• Gov. Walker to address the people of Wisconsin tonight at 6 p.m, WISC-lV and Wisconsin Eye will air the
address.
• Union calls fur a general strike if the budget repair bill becomes law.
• Senate Dems have raised over $279,000 on the lam.
• Senate & Assembly in session today.
• Governor.Walker signed bill requiring 2/3s majority vote to increase income, sales taxes.
• Video: Governor Walker on Hannity
• Video: Governor Walker on Morning Joe
Governor Walker - Television Clips for Feb 20 - 21 (438 clips)
Wisconsin's Front Pages:

Anpleton Post-Crescent
Eau Claire Leader-TelegnID!
Green Bay Press Gazette
LlLCrosse Tribune
Manitowoc Herald Times Reporter
Sheboygan Press
Stevens Point Journal
Wisconsin State J oill'llal
Nation/World
The Showdown Over Public Union Power

Wall Street Joumal
Government workers have taken to the streets in Madison, Wis., to battle' a series of reforms-proposed by Gov.
Scott Walker that include allowing workers to opt out of paying dues to unions. Everywhere that this "opt out"
idea has been proposed, unions have battled it vigorously because the money they collect from dues is at the heart
of their power. .
So Much for a 'More Civil' Public Discourse

by Stephen Hayes - Wall Street Journal
When President Obama spoke last month at the memorial serviee-for-victims of the-shooting-inTucscn, his speech
called on Americans to live up to their ideals.
Political Fight Over Unions Escalates

Wall Street Joumal
The clash between Republicans and unions that caught fire in Wisconsin last week escalated Monday: Labor
leaders planned to take their protests to dozens of other capitals and Democrats in a second state considered a
walkout to stall bills that would limit union power.
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Wisconsin Law:makers.Live Life on the Lam

Wall Street Journal
At 8 a.m. Thursday, 14state senators from Wisconsin met upstairs from a coffee shop a block from the capitol and
decided the safest route to blocking Republican Gov.Scott Walker's budget bill was to leave town. Elder
statesman, 83-year-old Sen. Fred Risser, who was first elected in 1956, gave his blessing.
" Wisconsin proJ&~t~..G.ov~mQ)'nQt backingJlQWll over bill

BBGNews - London
"We're willing to take this as long as it takes," GovWalker told US media.
GOP presidential hopefuls rally behind Wis. Gov. Scott Walker

USA Today
As the protests over Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's labor proposals continue, the newly elected Republican is
.finding some support from the politicians who want to replace President Obama.
Wisconsin's fiscal condition

Washington Post
.- The myths about public employees are flying fast and furious, so here's two things to remember ... First,
Wisconsin is among the vast majority of states that have made budget cuts hitting public employees since the
recession began - both furloughs and l(lyoffs. And, as EpI's stu~h' on Wisconsin state worker compensation
shows, public workers in Wisconsin are compensated less well than their private sector counterparts,
Union Bonds in Wisco~in~~gin to Frror

New York Times .
JANESVILLE, Wis. - Rich Hahan worked at the General Motors plant here until it closed about two years ago.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker: No compromise on union rights

Politico
MADISON, Wis. - Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker continued to stand his ground Monday night, challenging the 14
Democratic senators who have fled to illinois to return to "where they belong" so Republicans can move forward
with his budget-cutting plan.
New York's Teamsters Local 237 to bus in support to union protestors in Wisconsin
New York Daily News
The Wisconsin workers who have staged a week-long protest against their union-busting governor are getting
some BigApple reinforcements.
polLticalleft raises mon~forWis. Senate DeDlocrats.

USA Today .
Nearly $279,000 has been raised for the Wisconsin Democratic Committee via ActBlue, a political action
committee that supports Democrats and acts as a clearinghouse for donations. The contributions from more than
10,000 donors go to Democratic groups and ActBlue acts as a conduit.
With Wisc!,nsin's Prot.esteys: 4-ColdNight iJ1.Madis!'n.

TIME Magazine
It's 9 p.m. on Sunday night but the sound of beating drums, saxophones and maracas continue to reverberate
against the Wisconsin State Capitol's stone walls.
Wisconsin protest shows state's evolving political history

Christian Science Monitor
With nearly 70,000 people storming the capitol steps of Madison last week and more expected to fill the city's
. streets in the days ahead, the growing clash between union rights protesters and state legislators bent on fixing
enormous budget holes looks likely to get messier before it is resolved.
High Noon for Democratic Party in Wisconsin

by Bill O'Reilly - FoxNews
The stakes are huge for the Democratic Party in Wisconsin right now. Thousands of state workers are furious that
Gov. Scott Walker is asking for givebacks in their benefits. The governor also wants to cripple labor unions from
negotiating in that state. Workers have walked off the job and many schools are shut down.
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Daniels sticks Vll for. Walker

Politico
Mitch Daniels stood in solidarity with Wisconsin's Scott Walker today, telling a Chicago radio program that his
fellow governor is "only doing what he said he'd do" and denouncing people who compared the protests there to
the ones in Egypt. '
, J'll.hlic Emllloyee Unw»s Failing.!~-'!.dJy~iJ'v.blic ..Relati.9»--"

Forbes
Despite the tens of thousands who have turned up to battle Walker's attempt at taking away collective bargaining
rights, the governor continues to hold most of the cards. With a solid majority behind him in the state legislature,
there is a very strong likelihood that Walker will win this battle and set off a chain of events around the nation that
could deal the union movement a crushing- even fatal- blow. .
Jonah Goldberg: Public unions must go

Los Angeles Times
Public unions have been a 50-year mistake.
As ground zero in bargaining debate. Wisconsin union battle has nationwide rellercussions
New York Daily News
Everyone in New York - especially civil servants, union leaders and lawmakers - should be paying close attention
to the battle being waged in Wisconsin.
Neither side---hudgi.J;!g in Wisconsin union fight

by Scott Bauer - Associated Press - Newsday
(AP) - Republican backers of Gov. Scott Walker's plan to eliminate collective bargaining rights for most public
employees are trying to move the explosive proposal closer to reality, even as Democrats remained on the run and
protesters filled the halls of the Capitol for a second week. '
Wisconsin Democratic aide says gvvernor must comp.romis~

Reuters News Service
Miller's aide Mike Browne said the unions representing those workers have signaled theirwillingness to meet the
governor, and are prepared to increase the amount of money they pay toward their health and benefit plans.
, Wisconsin Governor Asks Democrats to Come Home

Reuters News Service - New York Times
MADISON, Wisconsin (Reuters) - Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker on Monday urged 14 Democratic state
senators who left the state rather than vote on a bill that takes away bargaining rights for state workers to return
to work, but warned a big budget deficit left no room to negotiate.
Audio: Wis. Senate Democrats Stay Away To Avoid Vote

NPR
Protests could spread across U.S., unions say

The Province .
Protests by government workers in Wisconsin and other states will multiply as Republican governors try to
change rules for collective bargaining, a union spokesman said.
Starving Wisconsin's unions

Washington Post
Let's be clear: The high-stakes standoff in Wisconsin has nothing to do with balancing the state's budget.
Wisconsin governor deserves union backlash

San Francisco Chronicle
The masses are rising up against imperious leadership in Manama, Sanaa, Tehran, Tripoli and Madison, Wis.
Madison, Wis.?
Eight over Wisconsin unions heats up
Los Angeles Times
Wisconsin Republicans on Monday turned up the heat on Democratic state senators who fled to Illinois last week
to block passage of a controversial bill that would eliminate collective bargaining for most public employee unions.
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Thousanqs !l!.ke Wisconsin labo.!'-protest intQ.i:ts eighth day

Detroit Free Press
The union supporters withstood an ice-glazing storm that made walking treacherous and temperatures in the
mid-zos that had them gladly jumping up and down during the musical portion ofthe demonstration.
Make Everybody Hurt

byDavid Brooks - New York Times
No place is hotter thau Wisconsin. The leaders there have done everything possible to maximize conflict. Gov.
Scott Walker, a Republican, demanded cuts only from people inthe other party. The public sector unions and
their allies immediately flew into a rage, comparing Walker to Hitler, Mussolini and Mubarak,
Civilil:y lacking in Wisconsin fracas

Chicago Sun-Times
Tea Party protesters must be kicking themselves for being faint-hearted. After all, they showed up only at town
halls and the offices of politicians. Angry unionists in Wisconsin took their complaints to the private home of Gov.
Scott Walker in the Milwaukee suburbs.
Benefits bubble has burst for Wisconsin unions

Chicago Tribune
The crowds mobbing the Wisconsin Capitol in Madison are right: Gov. Scott Walker's budget repair bill is indeed
an attack on organized government workers.
And it's about time.
Wisconsin Protests Draw Thousands Of Workers Fighting For Key Union Rights
Huffington Post
MADISON, Wis. -- On Friday, February 11, at the same hour that the world watched the former Egyptian
president Hosni Mubarak resign his post, the newly appointed Republican Governor of Wisconsin quietly
launched a ferocious attack on public sector unions -- and the very notion of organized labor in America.
What's the matter with Wisconsin?

Baltimore Sun
Wisconsin's public employee unions are doing a lousy job of being villains. They're willing to have their salaries
and benefits cut 8 percent as Gov. Scott Walker has sought, and they're not asking for much in return - just to
maintain the right to collective bargaining.
For Wisconsin unions, a telling concession

Washington Post
Looks to me as if Wisconsin's union leaders have revealed their preference for political power. Theywantto
preserve collective bargaining at all costs, because without it they will lose the flow of dues money. And without
dues money, the unions have no political war chests, and without political war chests, they are nolonger power
brokers in state and local elections.
Wisconsin risks losing its best public eIUployees

CNN
If Walker's bill passes, and salaries and benefits continue to be slashed by local governments with no negotiations
necessary, it will be the most effective teachers, the best managers and the most successful university professors
who will be the first to leave their jobs for the private sector.
DNC Chairman: Wisconsin Governor Waging War on Public Workers

Fox News
"Governors and others in state houses across this country on the Republican side have decided what they want to
do is wage a war against their own employees," Kaine said Saturday night. "Against public employees who are
teaching our kids, who are caring for our parents in nursing homes, who are patrolling our neighborhoods."
Milwaukee
liurling!:.Q!J. r~ideI!.tI!.JQ.Sen~Wirc.h: G.9 ba~ to_Madis.Q!1_,lJJdvote

BURLINGTON - Cheryl Herrick, 51, of Burlington, has a message for her "missing" state senator, Sen. Robert
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Wirch, D-Pleasant Prairie. "Come back and vote," said Herrick, who works in retail. "Elections
have consequences."
Barrett warns of cuts to come (AUDIO)

Wisconsin Radio Network
Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett delivered his state of the city address Monday, and said he understands that
government employees need to make increased contributions to their health care and pension benefits.
Senate Dems have raised $280,000 since they went missing

More than 11,000 donors from around the country have given $280,000 to the State Senate Democratic
Committee via ActBlue.com, a national website that funnels money from various sources for Democratic causes.
The committee supports the campaigns of Democratic candidates for the state Senate.
Game time is over

The game of charades in Wisconsin politics shonld end.
Passionate but peaceful '

The protesters in Madison were loud and insistent - and sometimes colorful. They chanted. They sang. They beat
drums. "
Walkexhas created 'aJ;lide!!illgical Wllr,' Barrett says

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel '
"I think he's loving the fact he's created this ideological war," Barrett said. Barrett was Walker's Democratic
opponent in last fall's governor's race. 'The whole purpose is to pit people against one another," the mayor said in
an interview after his annual "state of the city" speech.
Refinancin~ ofbonds is hug~art ofbudget repair bill

Gov. Scott Walker's proposal to curtail bargaining rights for public-sectorurtiorrs has triggered massprotests and
national headlines but hardly constitutes the biggest part of his budget repair bill.
Doctors' excuses for protesting teachers in Madison draw scrutiny

Protesters in Madison who obtained medical excuse slips to cover their absences from work, and the doctors who
issued them, are likely to be subjected to more intensive examinations.
Teachers ready, but reluctant, to return to classrooms

"But I kept thinking about all the protesters in Tahrir Square, and how they were protesting for what they believed
in even though their lives were indanger, and, I thought, if they can face that, then I can be here facing this,"
Ladopoulos, 40, said Monday on the floor of the rotnnda. "Because I haven't been in school, I feel like it's been my
job to be here."
Teacher retirements up after budget fix proposal

All was quiet on Feb. 1, the deadline for employees at the Hartford Union High School District in Washington
County to submit their requests for retirement, with not a single expected retiree.
GOP raises the stakes

Madison - In a move meant to lure boycotting opposition senators back to Wisconsin, the Republican leader of
the state Senate threatened Monday to force a vote soon on a bill that is abhorred by Democrats: requiring people
to show an ID at the polls.
Home §,al~$Jise lQJ!1",pJl,!:..pri ceUlIg

Sales of existing homes in Wisconsin rose 16.2 % in January compared with a year earlier, but the pickup in
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activitydidn't result in a higher median sale price.
Madison
Walker warns state w<;lrkers that 1000yoffnoticesffiay be forthcoming

Associated Press-« Wisconsin State Journal
MADISON, Wis. CAP) - Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker warns that state employees could start receiving layoff
notices as early as next week if a bill eliminating collectivebargaining rights isn't passed soon.
Ill!Qget BIog: Assembly, Senate head to the floor

WisPolitics
The Assemblyand Senate planned to head to the floor today with very different calendars.
Other states' officials split on Walker's move to repeal collective bargaining

Wisconsin Reporter
MADISON - Wisconsin's fight over collectivebargaining rights is drawing comment from elected officials and
opinion-page writers across the conntry.
WEAC President Mary Bell responds to Governor Walker's Monday Press Conference (PDF)·,
WEAC
Labor group calls for general strike if budget repair bill is approved
The Capital T i m e s ' .
The South Central Federation of Labor is calling for a general strike of close to 100 unions, representing about
45,000 workers, if Gov. Scott Walker's budget repair bill is passed by tile state legislature and signed into law by
tile governor.
Stalemate in the statehouse: Government in limbo as union debate rages

Wisconsin State Journal'
Senate Democrats are still in hiding and protesters are still packing the state Capitol, but Gov. Scott Walker and
Republican lawmakers said Monday they plan to push ahead with efforts to pass a controversial bill to curb
collectivebargaining rights for publicworkers arrdmakesweeping changes toMedicaid;
Running away is irresponsible

Editorial- Wisconsin State Journal
They made their point.
Forcibly returning Senate Democrats may be unconstitutional

The state constitution prohibits lawmakers from being arrested while the Legislature is in session, unless they're
accused of serious crimes.
Union snpporters from other states pom' in to help Capitol protesters

Scores of union members from other states joined the pro-labor rallies Monday at the state Capitol, saying they
fear for their own collectivebargaining rights because of what's happening here.
Wisconsin's local governments never asked to end collective bargaining, as Scott Walker contends
by Joe Torr - Isthmus
"Our position is we've sought significant modifications in bargaining laws, but we've never sought to eliminate
collectivebargaining rights," says Miles Turner, executive director of the Wisconsin Association of School District
Administrators.
Green Bay/Appleton
Green Blw area officials bracing for local cuts with Wisconsin budget situation
Green Bay Press-Gazette
Local officials know their piece of the pie is shrinking again. For the better part of a decade, they've dealt with
reductions in shared revenue and school aid.
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Editorial: It's time to start talking about a solution

So how is this going to end? What's it going to take? If you're Gov. Scott Walker and his Republican colleagues in
the Legislature, you'd say that it'll take the 14 Senate Democrats to come back from hiding in Illinois and do the
job they were elected to do.
Appleton lawmaker Penny Bernard Schaber seeks key exemption in budget plan for transit
workers
MADISON - A Fox Cities lawmaker is helping lead a push to preserve federal funding for transportation services.
Gov. Scott Walker's budget plan may tilt political playing field
Associated Press - Appleton Post-Crescent i
MADISON - The high-stakes fight in Wisconsin over union rights is about more than pay and benefits in the
public sector. It could have far-reaching effects on electoral politics in this and other states by helping solidify
Republican power for years, experts said Monday.
Budget bill impasse continues in Madison

by Scott Bauer - Associated Press - Manitowoc Herald Times Reporter
MADISON - No.resolution appeared imminent Monday to the stalemate over union rights in Wisconsin, leaving
Senate Republicans resigned to forge ahead with less-controversial business such as tax breaks for dairy farmers
and commending the Green Bay Packers on winning the Super Bowl.
Editorial: Snatching..!lefeat from the _hands ofbu~victory

'Oshkosh Northwestern
Ifbalancing the state budget is truly Gov. Scott Walker's aim, the political brinksmanship can cometo an end in
the state capitol. Union leaders agreed to the financial terms in Walker's budget repair bill that sparked massive
protests in Madison and virtually ground the legislature to a halt with 14 Democrat senators fleeing the state to
prevent a vote on the bill.
Hopper: Rolling back bargaining rights at root of fiscal sustainability

Oshkosh Northwestern .
Revoking most collectivebargaining rights for public employees is at the root of stabilizing state, municipal and
school district budgets long term, Sen. Randy Hopper, R-Fond du Lac, said Monday.
1,500 l~yoffs possible if bill not OK'd by Frida)'

As the standoff entered its second week, none of the major players offered any signs of backing down in a high-
stakes game of political chicken that has riveted the nation and led to ongoing public protests that drew a high of
68,000 people on Saturday. Thousands more braved cold winds and temperatures in the 20S to march again on
Monday, waving signs that said "Stop the attack on Wisconsin families" and "solidarity."
La Crosse/Eau Claire
Changes to JYIedicaic;}£riticjzed; UlLN-ZQ,OOQ could lose cO'yer~~

La Crosse Tribune
Overshadowed in Gov. Scott Walker's controversial budget repair bill is a provision that could lead to some
70,000 people losing health insurance.
County approves worker contracts; unions OK one-year wage freeze

La Crosse Tribune
Supervisor Bill Feehan, who is the chairman of the La Crosse County GOP, abstained from voting. "To my way of
thinking this is being rushed," he said. "My concern is we don't rush into a decision that ties our hands once the
budget repair bill passes."
UW Health investigates doctors who wrote sick notes for protesters

Chippewa Herald .
MADISON - UW Health is investigating reports of doctors writing sick notes last weekend to excuse Capitol
protesters from work, and the Wisconsin Medical Societyhas criticized the doctors' actions.
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Wausau/Rhinelander
EDITORIAL: Be honest about protest absences

Wausau Daily Herald
Hundreds of teachers locally called in sick on Friday to participate in protests against Gov. Scott Walker's budget
repair bill. It was intended as a form of protest, and it registered that way. Many local school districts, including
Wausau and Merrill, were closed for the day.
Local Walker supporters say it's time to make cuts
Wisconsin Rapids Tribune

About a week has passed, and some local conservatives still can't believe 14 state senators left Wisconsin to stall a
budget repair bill.
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Ristow, Nate - GOV
From: GOV Press

To: GOV Press
Subject: ColJective Bargaining is a Fiscal Issue: Part 2
February 22, 2011

Collective Bargaining is a Fiscal Issue: Part 2

--
Example #1 Paid-Time Off for Union Activities

employees receive salary and benefits for doing union business. Ofthe fourteen, three are on full-time
release for union business. Milwaukee County spent over $170,000 in salary alone for these
employees to only participate in union activities such as collective bargaining.

and requiring notice and approval by the union, prior.to, scheduHngchanges. As-county executive,
instituting a 35-hour work week to avoid layoffs, which the union opposed. Additionally, government
statement:
Unfortunately for the millions of taxpayers who are currently paying these Senators' salaries-and
benefits, Senator Julie Lassa and her 13 colleagues decided to take a 6 day vacation to JIIinois to get 'to
voice heard through the democratic process by casting their votes.
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Ristow, Nate - GOV
From: GOV Press

To: GOV Press
SUbject: ICYMI: Burlington residents to Sen. Wircn: Go back to Madison and vote
Burlington residents to Sen. Wirch: Go back to

Madison and vote
http://m.journaltimes.com/news/local/govt-and-po liticslarticle_2280Mc8-3e79-11eO-960a-
001cc4c03286.html
~URLINGTON - Cheryl Herrick, 51, of Burlington, has a message for her "missing" state senator, Sen.
Robert Wirch, D-P1easant Prairie. "Come back and vote," said Herrick, who works in retail. "Elections
have consequences."
Wirch, who represents Burlington andmostof-Kenosha County, is-one of-the 14 senate Democrats who
fled Madison lastweek when the state Senate was scheduled to take a vote on Gov. Scott Walker's
proposal to essentially eliminate collective bargaining for public workers.
Wirch has not returned calls for comment for several days.
In downtown Burlington on Monday, the consensus among area residents selected at random was that
Wirch should go back and vote. Many, including Herrick, said they would like to see Wirch recalled for
.' avoiding his vote. By running l1way,he is not doing his job.said Kellie Kerkman, 39, ofBurlington.
"All I see is this teaching our younger generation to run away from problems. It's time to grow up," said
Kerkman, who owns Kerkman's SplitEnds, a hair salon at 316 N Pine St.
Down the street, Carl Schultz, 61, of Twin Lakes, said Wirch should be fired for avoiding "his
responsibility."
He recalled firing a worker from his car part manufacturing business, Five Star Fabricating, for
. repeatedly missing work after receiving multiple warnings, he said.
"If they are hired to do a job, they should be there," said Schultz, who feels that way about his
employees and his state legislators.
And the possibility of a recall may become a reality.
Dan Hunt, 51, of Pleasant Prairie, where Wirch lives, is looking into forming a committee to recall the
senator. So far he has 175 volunteers who have signed up to help circulate petitions to recall Wirch, he
said as of Monday afternoon, but he said he would need about 300 volunteers to successfully launch a
campaign. According to the Government Accountability Board he would need about 15,000 signatures
for a recall election.
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For now, Hunt said, he is waiting to see ifWirch goes back to vote.
"The longer he stays away, the greater the likelihood," Hunt said of a recall effort.
While it appears in downtown Burlington there is support for a recall, Tony Watson, 30, of Burlington,
said he for one would not sign a recall petition for Wirch. Watson said most people in the Burlington
, area support Walker's proposal. But he works at Nestle and among his co-workers there is alot of
concern about the governor's proposal, he said. People wonder what might eventually happen for unions
like theirs, he said.
Instead of recalling Wirch, Watson said he would support recalling Walker. But he would have to wait
until January for that to happen.
Chris Schrimpf
Officeofthe Governor
Email: chris.schrtmpftiiwtsconsin.gov
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Ristow, Nate - GOV
From: Schutt, Eric - GOV

To: Werwie, Cullen J - GOV; Gilkes, Keith - GOV; Archer, Cynthia - DOA; Murray, Ryan M - GOV;
Schrimpf, Chris.- GDV . ,
Subject: RE: Draft release for tomorrow early AM: Collective Bargaining is a Fiscai Issue Part 2
Fine,
Eric A. Schutt
Deputy Chief of Staff
Office of the Governor
Main: (608) 266-1212
E-mail: Eric.Schutt@wisconsin.gov

Sent: Monday, February 21, 2011 8:58 PM
Subject: Draft reiease for tomorrow early AM: Collective Bargaining is a Fiscal Issue Part 2 .
February 21, 2011·

Contact: Cullen Werw'ie, 608-267-7303
. Collective Bargaining is a Fiscal Issue Part 2

bargaining fiscally impacts government, -.
Example #1 Paid-Time off for Union Activities

Example #2 Surrender of Management Right~

statement:
We couldbe engaging in a healthy debate in Madison about the fiscalimpact collective bargaining has
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on al/ levels of government, if the Senate Democrats weren't vacationing in Illinois. Unfortunately for the
mil/ions of taxpayers who are currently paying these Senators' salaries and benefits, Senator Julie Lassa
and her 13 colleagues decided to take a 6 day vacation to Illinois to get 'to know a lot of my fellow
caucus members.'
Wisconsin working to botance the state budget. Senators should return to Wisconsin and make their
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Ristow, Nate - GOV
From: Gilkes, Keith - GOV

To: Schrimpf, Chris - GOV; Werwie, Cullen J - GOV; Schutt, Eric - GOV; Archer, Cynthia - DOA; Murray,
Ryan.M- GOV
Subject: RE: Draft release for tomorrow early AM: Collective Bargaining is a Fiscal Issue Part 2
I am fine - share with Governor before releasing.

Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2011 8: 16 AM
To: Werwie, Cullen J - GOV; Gilkes, Keith - GOV; Schutt, Eric - GOV; Archer, Cynthia - DOA; Murray, Ryan M -
GOV
SUbject: RE: Draft release for tomorrow early AM: CollectiveBargaining is a Fiscal Issue Part 2
Importance: High
I slightly edited. I think we need to get this out soon. We need to keep up the drumbeat of collective bargaining
being fiscal. Please send any edits asap. .
Chris Schrimpf
Email: chris.schrtmpfidiwisconsin.gov
From: Werwie, Cullen J - GOV.

a
SUbject: Draft release for tomorrow early AM:Coilective Bargaining is Fiscal Issue Part 2
February 21, 2011


Example #1 Paid-Time off for Union Activities


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instituting a' 35 hour work week to avoid layoffs, which the union opposed. Additionally, government
cannot explore privatization offunctions that could save taxpayers money.
statement:
benefits, Senator Julie Lassa and her 13 colleagues decided to take a 6 day vacation to l/Iinois to get 'to
know a lot of myfellow caucus members.'
. voice heard through the democratic process by casting theIr vote.
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Ristow, Nate - GOV

To: Werwie, Culien J - GOV; Gilkes, Keith - GOV; Schutt, Eric - GOV; Archer, Cynthia - DOA;
Murray, RyaJ:l M,- GOV ,
Subject: RE: Draft release fortomorrow early AM: Collective Bargaining is a Fiscal Issue Part 2
Importance: High
I slightly edited, I think we need to get this out soon. We need to keep up the drumbeat of coliective bargaining
being fiscal. Please send any edits asap.
Chris Schrimpf
Email: chris.schrimpftiiiwisconsin.gov

Subject: Draft release for tomorrow early AM:'Collective Bargaining is a Fiscal Issue Part 2
February 21, 2011

, For immediate Release
Contact: Cullen Werwie, 608-267-7303'

Madison':""Today Governor Walker's office released more specific examples to show how collective
Example #1 PaidcTime off for Union Activities

in Milwaukee County alone, because the union collectively bargained for paid time off, fourteen
release for union business. Milwaukee-County spent-over' $170;OO(}in'salaryalone'for these employees

direct fiscal impact such as not allowlngmanagement to schedule workers based on operational needs
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statement:
benefits, Senator Julie Lassa and her 13 colleagues decided to take a 6 day vacation to Illinois to get 'to
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Ristow, Nate - GOV

To: Gilkes, Keith - GOV; Schutt, Eric - GOV; Archer, Cynthia - DOA; Murray, Ryan M - GOV; Schrimpf,
Chris - GOV
Subject: Draft releasefor tomorrowearly AM: Collective Bargaining is a Fiscal Issue Part 2
February 21, 2011


, -'
bargaining fiscally impactsgovernment,
Example #1 Paid-Time ofHor Union Activities

. employees receive salary and benefits for doing union business. Of the fourteen, three are on full-time
releasefor union business. Milwaukee County spent over $170,000 in salary alone for these
employees to only participate in union activities such as collective bargaining.

. statement:
We could be engaging in a healthy debate in Madison about the fiscal Impact collective bargaining has
on aI/levels of government, if the Senate Democrats weren't vacationing In lI/1nois. Unfortunately for
the mil/ions of taxpayers who are currently paying these Senators' salaries and benefits, Senator Julie
Lassa and her 13 colleagues decided to take a 6 day vacation to I/Iinois to get 'to know a lot of my
fellow caucus members:
While Senate Democrats are getting acquainted with each other in another state, Governor Walker Is in
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Ristow, Nate - GOV

Sent: Monday, February 21, 2011 9:33 AM
To: Schrimpf, Chris - GOV; Gilkes, Keith - GOV; Murray, Ryan M - GOV; Schutt, Eric - GOV
SUbject: Draft of release for noon
Let me know what you think ofthe release below.
February 21, 2011

Contact: Cullen Werwie, 608"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 lS-Senate Democrats ram the bill through the Legislature, without a public hearing.
(http://legis.wisconsin.gov/2009/data/SB66hst.html)
2010
November Z-County Executive Scott Walker becomes the Governor-elect.
November 10-Governor-elect Walker asked Governor Doyleto suspend contract negotiations so their
fiscal impact could be considered in the context ofthe 2011-13 state budget.
November Z9-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.hls 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.
(htm:1/www.channeI3000.co[Y]Lgolitics/26114651Ldetail~htmJ)
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/wsj/news/local/govt-and-golitics/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 briefthem 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 todraw 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 lS-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://www.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 acting like children playing a dangerous game of htde-
and-go-seek with our states' finances. 24 hours was enough time for them to-lnerease-taxes-by$1 billion
dollars 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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Subject: (WisPolitics) MON' PM Update -- 21 February 2011
21 February 2011
From WisPo/itics.com ..,
-- Both sides in the standoff over the 'guv's. austerity measures dug in even further
today, as Senate Oems and Republicans 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 Repubficans 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 soine 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 theguvto 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:

.; GOP state Sens. Randy Hopper and Dale Schultz have been two of those 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 and 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
that the 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 surqeon from Wausau, said she-would be
encouraging the state Medical Examining Board to undertake its own investigation.
"To hand out an excuse without properlyevaluating.. a-patient is both unethk:al.·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 Holperin, 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 Holperin. 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/entity/fund raisers/16403
, -- 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 for violating 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 of the incident in his statement.
"My concern rigi:lt 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 providing "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
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
.. home.to.73 percent of the region's poor won't matter."
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."
"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.
Walker's plan exempts police, fire, the State Patrol and state inspectors from the austerity
measures.
Read Barrett's prepared remarks:

http://www.wispolitics.com/1006/MilwSOC FINAL022111.pdf
.. From WisOpinion.com ..•
. . --In new posts at WisOpinion, independent Rep. Bob Ziegelbauer says the guv!s budget
repair bill will save jobs.
Other posts debate Walker's bill.
See more:
http://wisopinion.com/
From WisBusiness.com ...
-- Organizers of the annual Business Day in Madison on Wednesday are making some
adjustments due to the protests.
"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.
Legislators most likely will not be available and entry into the Capitol building may be difficult.
"Also, you are encouraged to park at the Alllant Energy Center. Parking is free and tile
Wisconsin Motor Carriers Association and Badger Coaches are providing shuttle service to
and from the Monona Terrace."
See more on Business Day:

http://www.wmc.org/displm'.cfm?JQ=1027.
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Appleton Post-Crescent: Fitzgerald: Vote on budget repair bill won't happen until Democrats
return
http://www.postcrescent.com/article/20.1.10221/APC01Q.1!3.Q2220026/Fitzgerald-Vote-cim-
budget-repair-bill-won-t-happen-until-Democrats-return
Appleton Post-Crescent: Oem who fled state worries vote could be taken away .
http://wwW~RQstcrescent.com/article/2011 0221/APCP1 01/11 0221091/Dem-who-fled-state_c
worries-vote-could-be-taken,
Appleton Post-Crescent: Lawmaker accused of sexual misconduct

http://www.postcrescent.com/article/2011 0221/APC01 01/302220018/Lawmaker-accused-of-
sexual-misconduct
Channel 3000: Key part of Walker's budget plan faces deadline

http://www.channeI3000.com/politics/26939450/detail.html
WISN: Thousands rally in cold, snow outside Capitol

Wisconsin State Journal: Jesse Jackson to return to Madison Tuesday

http:L!host. m",-disoo.,~o!J1/wsi/news/local/ed ucation/local schools/article b7c68f42-3dfe-11 eO-
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Wisconsin State Journal: UW Health investigates doctors who wrote sick notes for protesters
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Wisconsin State Journal: Fledgling faculty unions would dissolve under Walker's bill .
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Capital Times: Regent calls on Martin to oppose split from UW System

http://host.madison.com/ct/news/local/education/campus connection/article a30e06ba-3ddc-
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CNN: Wisconsin gov blasts unions' waste

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

http://www.cnn.com/2011/PQLlTICS/02/21/libya.us.reactionlindex.html
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Sent: Thursday, February 17,20112:03 PM
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Catch him.

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From: GOV Press

Sent: Monday, February 21, 2011 8:00 AM
To: GOV Press
Subject: ICYMI: Running away is irresponsible
FYI-a good editorial about the actions of Senate Democrats.
Running away is irresponsible

A Wisconsin State Jonrnal editorial I Posted: Monday, February 21, 2011 7:00 am
They made their point.
Now it's thne to get back to work - in Madison, not Rockford, Ill., or Chicago.
The Senate Democrats who fled Wisconsin for Illinois last week need to do the jobs they were elected to do at the state
Capitol in Madison. Running away from their problems won't solve them.
All 14 Democrats in the 33-member Wisconsin Senate staged a walkout from the Wisconsin Capitol in Madison on
Thursday.
They bolted to prevent the 19 Republicans who control the Senate- from potentially voting in favor of GOP Gov. Scott
Walker's controversial budget repair bill. The proposal, which the Democrats adamantly oppose, includes sweeping limits to
collective bargaining for public employee nnions..
So the Senate is now stuck because it needs at least 20 members for a quorum before it can vote on fiscal matters.
And that's one more senator than the Republican majority has.
State law allows the Senate to use law enforcement to force absent members back to the Capitol. But because all of the
Democrats are apparently holed up out of state, they're outside the jurisdictiou of Wisconsin law enforcement.
So Wisconsin sits and waits. For how long? Until Walker apologizes for winning the last election?
Like it or not, the majority of Wisconsin voters elected Walker and other Republicans to run the statehouse for the next two
years. The Democrats cau't change that until subsequent elections.
Sen. Jon Erpenbach, D-Middleton, met with the State Journal editorial board late Tuesday afternoon, urging us to urge the
governor to slow down his bill. We agreed with Erpenbach that the public deserves more than a week to consider such a
major piece oflegislation. And we said so in an editorial Thursday moming.
But we don't agree with Erpenbach failing to show up for days to work and, on Sunday aftemoon, suggesting from a hotel in
Chicago that the Senate Democrats might not return until Walker gives in to their demands.
That's irresponsible.
Moreover, Erpenbach has his own history ofrushing legislation. We scolded him back in 2009 for scheduling a public
hearing with barely 24 hours notice. We did so even though we strongly supported the bill he was moving - a statewide ban
on smoking in bars and restaurants.
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The many lawmakers who opposed the controversial smokiog ban didn't head for the hills. They responsibly showed up at
the state Capitoi to represent their constituents as best they could, even though their side didn't prevail.
Erpenbach and his Senate Democratic colieagues hiding out io lIlioois shouid do the same.
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Subject: Re: International AP wire story
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Sent: Sunday, February 20, 201110:24 AM
To: Schrimpf, Chris - GOV; Gilkes, Keith - GOVi Schutt, Eric - GOVi Murray, Ryan M - GOV;
Subject: International AP wire story
Below is the AP story that went up on the international wire this AM.
http://hosted2.ap.org/txdam/54828a5e8d9d48b7ba8b94ba3 8age£22/Article 2011-02-20-Wisconsin%

20Budget%20Wa1ker's%20Moment/id-43b9c7e309d648228e75bf7a9c923baa
Wisconsin governor seizes chance to take on

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unions
S80TT BAUER, Associated Press 0
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -It took Scott Walker only a few weeks to push the Capitol into politicai chaos.
. The newly elected Republican governor of Wisconsin has set his sights on forcing public workers to pay more for benefits as
he looks to balance the state's budget- savings he needs to help cover the cost of tax cuts he demanded the day he took
office.
Democrats, who are no longer in power, have l,ikened Walker to a dictator, and demonstrators protesting a contentious
Walker-backed labor bill have waived signs comparing him to ousted Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak. Even President Baraok
Obama has weighed in, calling the bill "an assault on unions."
Just seven weeks into his term, the 43-year-old son of a preacher has shown no sign of compromising..He has a GOP majority
in both houses of the Legislature that has already helped him make good on campaign .promises.
Walker insists that his push to force concessions from public employees by doubllnq their health insurance contributions and
requiring them to pay half their pension costs Is all about balancing the budget and not busting unions. But the bill also would
strip them of most collective bargaining rights.
"I got elected to get Wisconsin working again and to improve the economy," Walker said in an interview with The Associated
AI1'1/'l{)11
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Press. "At the same time it meant fixing ourbudgetcrisis."
Wisconsin faces a $137 million budget shortfali by Juiy. The concessions Walker seeks from the state workers would save $30
million over four months. He would balance the budget this year mainly through refinancing debt.
The increased pension and health benefit costs Would save Wisconsin $300 million over the next two years, which would help
buy down a projected $3.6. billion shortfall.
Michael Grebe, a Milwaukee business leader who has been a close Walker adviser and friend for the past 20 years, said the
governor's proposal was consistent with his political philosophy and budgets he put forward as Milwaukee County executive
that also targeted unions for concessions.
"If people are at ali surprised by this then they haven't been paying attention;" Grebe said. "He realiy does believe in skinny
budgets and protecting the taxpayers. What he's doing now is completely consistent with that."
As county executive for eight years before elected governor, Walker never proposed a higher property tax levy than what was
approved. To pay for that, he repeatedly sought to impose wage and benefit concessions on county workers, but was blocked
by the unions and Democratic-controlied county board.
Now he has a Repubiican-controlied Leqislature.backlnq. hlm.all the.way.·
"I've always been bold," Walker said. "I've been bold at the county, which is Why there's always been a lot of passion there for
folks who supported me and those who opposed me, and I'm bold here, too. But you gotta be. We have no choice. Again,
we're broke. We don't haveany more opttons."
As proof that unions knew they would be targeted, Walker points to a flier circulated during last fali's campaign by union AFT-
Wisconsin that warned that Walker wanted to curb the unions' power to- negotiate.
In December, weeks after the election, he even suggested the possibility of abolishing unions altogether.
Anyone who didn't see it coming must have been irra'corna; Walker said.- .
Union leaders insist they were blindsided.
''There wasn't any belief he was going to go for the nuclear option," said Gary Steffen, presldentof the Wisconsin Science
Professionals, the union that represents state scientists, inciUdihg crime lab analysts, biologists, chemists and foresters. "We
expected concessions, but we just didn't think there was a mandate for this. We didn'tsee him getting rid of coliective
bargalnlnq."
Union anger over the proposal set off amassive protest not seen in Madison since the Vietnam War era. Walker unveiled the
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Page 3 of4
bill on a Friday and four days later more than 10,000 people came to the Capitol in protest. By the end of the week, the ranks
had grown to nearly 70,000, as schools closed around the state because teachers called in sick to join efforts to defeat the bill.
Assembly Minority Leader Rep. Peter Barca said Walker's goal was to "ram it through in less than a week to avoid scrutiny
and discussion."
Walker has been in hyper-drive, calling the Legislature into special session the day he took the oath of office and asking them
to pass tax cuts for businesses, make sweeping lawsuit reform and other changes. He got everything of consequence that he
wanted.
The business tax cuts he pushed through added about $117 million to the projected two-year deficit, fanning anger among
Democrats and unions that Walker argues he has to target public employees to balance the budget when he's found money
for the tax breaks.
In an effort to slow down the union bill, Democratic senators skipped town on Thursday, delaying action in the state Senate
indefinitely by leaving It one vote short of a quorum. The Assembly adjourned on Friday and didn't plan to take up the bill until
at least Tuesday.
Labor leaders believe public anger at the bill will grow the longer their standoff goes and force concessions from Walker and
Republican legislators. But Walker andRepublican leaders in tile Legislature say they have the votes they needto pass the
bill with everything they want in it.
If anything, they say, the protests are only hardening support. Walker's office says he's getting 1,000 e-rnails an hour, nearly
all of which express support.
"There's a quiet majority out there who want us to do the right thing," Walker said. "This is bold politically, which is why there is
all this attention, but it is stili modest in terms of what we're asking in terms of our government employees."
The concessions amount to an 8 percent pay cut for the average worker.
Unions still could represent workers, but they could not force employees to pay dues and would have to hold annual votes to
stay organized. Only wages below the Consumer Price Index would be subject to collective bargaining, anything higher would
have to be approved by referendum.
In exchange for bearing more costs and losing bargaining leverage, public employees were promised no more of the layoffs or
furloughs they've had to deal with for more than two ye.ars. The next forced unpaid day off was scheduled for Monday,
Presidents Day, and state workers were sure to be out in force protesting at the Capitol.
Grebe, Walker's longtime friend, said he has been in regular contact with the governor since the protests started and he
believes the activity is only reinforcing his belief the bill is the right way to go.
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"I don't think it has affected his resolve at all," Grebe said. "He is committed to this."
Cullen Werwie
Press Secretary
Office of Governor Scott Waiker
Press Office: (60B) 267-7303
Email: CuI/en. Werwie@WI.Gov
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www.walker.wi.qov
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Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2011 10:25 AM
To: .. e I s .. GOV; Gilkes, Keith - GOV; Schutt, Eric .. GOV; Murray, Ryan M .. GOV;"
Subject: International AP wire story
Below is the AP story that went up on the international wire this AM.
http://hosted2. ap.org/txdam/54828a5e8d9d48b7ba8b94ba3 8agef22/Article 2011-02-20-Wisconsin%

20Budget%20Walker's%20Momentlid-43b9c7e309d648228e75bf7a9c923baa '
SCOTT BAUER, Associated Press D
MADISON, Wis. (AP) - It took Scott Walker only a few weeks to push the Capitol into political chaos.
The newly elected Republican governor of Wisconsin has set his sights on forcing public workers to pay more for benefits as
he looks to balance the state's budget - savings he needs to help cover the cost of tax cuts he demanded the day he took
office.
Democrats, who are no longer in power, have likened Walker to a dictator, and demonstrators protesting a contentious
Walker-backed labor bill have waived signs comparing him to ousted Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak. Even President Barack
Obama has weighed in, calling the bill "an assault on unions."
Just seven weeks Into his term, the 43-year-old son of a preacher has shown no sign of compromising. He has a GOP majority
in both houses of the Legislature that has already helped him make good on campaign promises.
Walker insists that his push to force concessions from public-employees-by doubling'their'health"lnsurance-contributions and
requiring them to pay half their pension costs is all about balancing the budget and not busting unions. But the bill also would
strip them ofmost collective bargaining rights.
"I got elected to get Wisconsin working again and to improve the ,economy," Walker said in an interview with The Associated
Press. "At the same time it meant fiXing our budget crisis."
Wisconsin faces a $137 million budget shortfall by July. The concessions Walker seeks from the state workers would save $30
million over four months. He would balance the budget this year mainly through' refinancing debt.
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The increased pension and health benefit costs would save Wisconsin $300 miilion over the next two years, which wouid heip
buy down a projected $3.6 biilion shortfall.
Michael Grebe, a Milwaukee business leader who has been a close Walker adviser and friend for the past 20 years, said the
governor's proposal was consistent with his political philosophy and budgets he put forward as Milwaukee County executive
that also targeted unions for concessions.
"If people are at all surprised by this then they haven't been paying attention," Grebe said. "He really does believe in skinny
budgets and protecting the taxpayers. What he's doing now is completely consistent with that."
As county executive for eight years before elected governor, Walker never proposed a higher property tax levy than what was
approved. To pay for that, he repeatedly sought to impose wage and benefit concessions on county workers, but was blocked
by the unions and Democratic-controlled county board:
Now he has a Republican-controlled Legislature backing him all the way.
"l've always been bold," Walker said. "I've, been bold. at the.county, which Is Why there's always been alot of passion there for
folks who supported me and those who opposed me, and I'm bold here, too. But you golta be. We have no choice. Again,
we're broke. We don't haveany more options."
As proof that unions knew they would be targeted, Walker points to a flier circulated during last fall's campaign by union AFT-
Wisconsin that warned that Walker wanted to curb the unions' power to negotiate.
In December, weeks after the election, he even suggested the possibility ofabolis fling unions altogether.
Anyone who didn't see it coming must have been in a coma, Walker said.
Union leaders insist they were blindsided.
"There wasn't any belief he was going to go for the nuclear option:' said Gary Steffen, president of the Wisconsin Science
Professionals, the union that represents state scientists, including crime lab analysts, biologists, chemists and foresters. "We
expected concessions, but we just didn't think there was a mandate for this. We didn't see him getting rid of collective
barqainlnq,"
Union anger over the proposal set off a massive protest not seen in Madison since the Vietnam War era. Walker unveiled the
bili on a Friday and four days later more than 10,000 people came to the Capitol In protest. By the end of the week, the ranks
had grown to nearly 70,000, as schools closed around the state because teachers called in sick to join efforts to defeat the bill.
Assembly Minority Leader Rep. Peter Barca said Walker's goal was to "ram it through in less than a week to avoid scrutiny
and dlscussion."
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Walker has been In hyper-drive, calling the Legislature into special session the day he took the oath of office and asking them
to pass tax cuts for businesses, make sweeping lawsuit reform and other changes. He got everything of consequence that he
wanted.
The business tax cuts he pushed through added about $117 million to the projected two-year deficit, fanning anger among
Democrats and unions that Walker argues he has to target public employees to balance the bUdget when he's found money
for the tax breaks.
In an effort to slow down the union bill, Democratic senators skipped town on Thursday, delaying action in the state Senate
indefinitely by leaving it one vote short of a quorum. The Assembly adjourned on Friday and didn't plan to take up the bill until
at least Tuesday.
Labor leaders believe public anger at the bill will grow the longer their standoff goes and force concessions from Walker and
Republican legislators. But Walker and Republican leaders in the Legislature say they have the votes they need to pass the
bill with everything they want in it.
If anything, they say, the' protests are only hardening support. Walker's office says he's getting 1,000 s-malls an hour, nearly
all of which express support.
"There's aquiet majority out there who want us to do the right thing," Walker said. "This is bold politically, which is why there is
ail this attention, but it.Is still modest in terms of whatwe're.askinq.ln.terms of our government empioyees."
The concessions amount to an 8 percent pay cut for the average worker.
Unions still could represent workers, but they could not force employees to pay dues and would have to hold annual votes to
stay organized. Only wages below the Consumer Price Index would be subject to coilective bargaining, anything higher would
have to be approved by referendum.
In exchange for bearing more costs and losing bargaining leverage, public employees were promised no more of the layoffs or.
furloughs they've had to deal with for more than two years. The next forced unpaid day off was scheduled for Monday,
Presidents Day, and state workers were sure to be out in force protesting at the Capitol.
Grebe, Walker's longtime friend, said he has been in regular contact with the governor since the protests started and he
believes the activity is only reinforcing his belief the biil is the right way to go.
"I don't think it has affected his resolve at ail," Grebe said. "He is committed to this."
Cullen Werwie
Press Secretary
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Press Office: (608) 267-7303

Email: CuiJen;Werwie@WI.Gav
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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.
*See details of the pro-union rally:

http://wispolitics.com/index:iml?Article=227477
*See a calendar with details on who's impacted by today's state furlough
day:
http://doa. wLgov/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 Bell 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.com/on-air/fox-news-sunday/index.html
.- Walker's office issued a statement this morning arguing collective

bargaining is a fiscal issue, givingthree"examples. '
The guv's office argued many school districts participate inthe 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 district, 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:

httpj/www.wi§pQlitic§l.col]J/index.iml?Ar:tigle=22ZI50(i
•• Democratic senators who fled the state to prevent a vote on austerity

measures for public 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.rnostpubilc 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.
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"It's really hard to come 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 donewlth-tlris-leqislatlon is totally rip the fabric of Wisconsin right

apart," Erpenbach said. "The state's very divided on this issue, and I can't
see him 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 Vos, 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," Vos 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/upfrontlindex.html
-- The Senate and Assembly plan to be in tomorrow.
The Assembly plans to take up the budget 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:

http://budget.wispolitics. com/
-- 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 committeewas

uncomfortable coming to Wisconsin because he has advocated eliminating
the office.
See the press release:

bttp://wispoiitics.com/index. iml?Article=227404
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TOP HEADLINES
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- Wisconsin Puts Obama Between Competing Desires: WH's Pfeiffer:
"False claims of WhiteHouse inVolvementare'attemptsto'distract from "
the organic grass-roots 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.
http://www.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, Dem Rep.
Barca comment. [by AP)
b1tp://www.wiscnews.cpm/portagedailyrJ2gister/ne.ws/local/gJj191e e5aQ.e374-
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- Defiant Dems vow to stay away: Dem 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-v0w-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, Dem Sens. Erpenbach and Miller, DOA Sec.
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Huebsch, WEAC Pres. Bel, JFC co-chair Rep. Vos comment.

http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/116563323.html
_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 Oay. 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, MPO's
OeSpain comment.
httR:llwww.dailycardinal.com/news/bill-protesters-suRPorters-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 Oem 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-
amendments-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.
http://www.thenorthwestern.com/article/20110220/0SH01 01/1 02200365
- 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, PAj. Pres. Obama and his
political machine are offering tactical support, eager to repair
strained relations with some union leaders. Oem US Rep. Bonior,
AFL-CIO's Ackerman, Oem pollster Mellman; Third Way,:s·Bennett·
comment. .
[APj
http://dailyreporter.com/blog/2011/02/20/state-budget-fights-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 $1.8B Medicaid deficit. WCCF's
Peacock, some attendees comment.
http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/health med fit/article 4415fffO-
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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 Wisconsin, Rage against the Machine's Tom
Morello headlines, State Capitol.
http://www.wi§politics.comlindex.iml?Article=2274 7.7
-- 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, 800 Langdon Street, Madison
http://www.commoncausewisconsin.org/2011/02/ccwi-reform-event-at~uw
madison-on.html
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For Wisconsin Governor, Battle-Ov:e~StateFinanGes--Was-LQng.in-the Making-

By MONICA DAVEY
MADISON, Wis. - Just last fall, people here were waving campaign signs. But the blocks around the
State Capitol have been filled for the past week with protesters brandishing signs with a different
message - demanding a recall-of.Gov; Scott-Walker; ealling--him·a-bul1y- and·likening-him to -Scrooge,
Hosni Mubarak, even Hitlel:.
Seemingly overnight, Mr. Walker, a Republican, has become a national figure, the man who set off a
storm of protest, now spreading to other states, with his blunt, unvarnished call for shrinking collective
-bargaining rights and benefits for public workers to help the state repair its budget.
Wisconsin may seem to the rest of the country like an unlikely catalyst, but to people who have watched
the governor's political rise through the years, the events of the week feel like a Scott Walker rerun,
though on a much larger screen and with a much bigger audience.
Critics and supporters alike say Mr. Walker has never strayed from his approach to his political career:
always pressing for austerity, and never blinking or apologizing for his lightning-rod proposals.
He regularly clashed with the Milwaukee County Board of Supervisors over the past decade when he
was that county's elected executive. He pushed to privatize cleaning and food service workers and
sought changes to pension and health contributions and workers' hours. At one point, he proposed that
the county government might want to consider, in essence, abolishing itself. It was redundant, he
suggested.
"All I can think is, here we go again," said Scott Larson, one of 14 Democratic state senators who fled
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Wisconsin last week to block a vote on Mr. Walker's cal1 to cut benefits. Mr. Larson knows the
governor well, having served on Milwaukee County's board when Mr. Walker was the executive. He
says that Mr. Walker is a nice guy on a personal level, "a good listener," but that his politics are another
matter.
"Unions have always been his pinata, over and over," Mr. Larson said. "And this time I think he's trying
to.out-right-wing the right wing on his way to the next lily pad."
Mr. Walker's supporters cheer the governor for what they see as delivering on the campaign pledge of
frugality that got him elected in November and forced a surprising makeover, at all levels of government
in the state, from Democrats to Republicans.
"This doesn't faze me one bit," Mr. Walker said Friday as thousands of protesters from around the
country marched and screamed and filled every unguarded craunyof the Capitol, just as they had all
week.
He said he had seen plenty of labor protesters before. Crowds of them in green T-shirts once even
showed up when he presented a Milwaukee County budget proposal- one of nine proposals in a row,
he boasts now, that included no tax increase over the rate the board had settled on the year before.
"I'm not going to be intimidated," Mr. Walker said, "particularly by people from other places."
Mr. Walker, 43; is the son of a Baptist preacher and a former Eagle Scout. He opposes abortion. He rides
a motorcycle. For years, he has carried the same bagged lunch to work (two ham and cheese sandwiches
on wheat) - a fact he has been fond of mentioning on campaign trails. His political heroesrTommy .
Thompson, this state's former governor, and Ronald Reagan.
"He didn't flinch," Mr. Walker said of Reagan. "Obviously, I take a lot of inspiration from that."
Mr. Walker once lost a bid for class presiderttarMarquettc UnivetSifJ(which he attended but did not
receive a degree from), but won a seat in the State Assembly several years later.
By 2002, when a pension scandal engulfed the Milwankee County government, the county executive
stepped down and Mr. Walker ran on a reform platform to replace him: He was never an obvious fit for
a county that leans Democratic and that, in the view ofMr. Walker, was "addicted to other people's
money."
Mr. Walker describes himself as a fiscal conservative with'a populist approach. It.is.a label that many in
the enormous and angry crowds here would question, but it has won Mr. Walker backing in recent years
from rea P!;!!jy supporters, who planned counterprotests this weekend in Mr. Walker's defense.
Barack Obama won Wisconsin in 2008, but last November, Republicans swept into power in the state,
shocking many who pointed to its long tradition of union power.
Republicans took control of the State Assembly, the State Senate and a United States Senate seat held by
a longtime incumbent, Russ Feingold, in addition to the governor's office. Former Gov. James E. Doyle,
a Democrat, did not seek re-election, and Mr. Walker - who promised to bring 250,000 new jobs to
Wisconsin in his first four-year term - defeated Tom Barrett, the mayor of Milwaukee and a Democrat,
52 percent to 46 percent.
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"This is the one part of the equation people are missing right now," said Scott Fitzgerald, who became
the Republican majority leader in the State Senate after the election and whose brother became the
speaker of the Assembly. "Scott Walker and I and my brother Jeff went into this session with the
understanding that we had to deliver on campaign promises, that people wanted the Republicans to
make change, that the more feathers you ruffle this time, the better you'll be." .
.Within.days of becoming, governor, Mr. Walker - who hung a sign on the doorknob of his.office that
reads "Wisconsin is open for business" - began stirring things up, and drawing headlines.
He rejected $810 million in federal money that the state was getting to build a train line between
Madison and Milwaukee, saying the project would ultimately cost the state too much to operate. He
decided to tum the state's Department of Commerce into a "public-private hybrid," in which hundreds
of workers would.needtoreapply for their jobs.
He and state lawmakers passed $117 million in tax breaks for businesses and others, a move that many
of his critics point to now as a sign that Mr. Walker made the state's budget gap worse, then claimed an
emergency that requires sacrifices from unions. Technically, the tax cuts do not go into effect in this
year's budget (which Mr. Walker says includes a $137 million shortfall), but in the coming two-year
budget, during which the gap is estimated at $3.6 billion.
Democrats here say Mr. Walker's style has led to a sea change in Wisconsin's politicaltradition.
\
"Every other Republican governor has had moderates in their caucus and histories of working with
Democrats," said Graeme Zielinski, a spokesman for the state's Democratic Party. "But he is a hard-
right partisan who does-not negotiate, does not compromise. He is totally modeled after-a-slash-and-
bum, scorched-earth approach that has never existed here before." .
The protests last week have put people in surprising circumstances. Mr. Fitzgerald and other legislators
have needed police escorts to leave their offices. Protesters have swarmed to Mr. Walker's home,
apparently to thedeep-dismayof his wife.Tonette-: .
But Mr. Walker was already preparing the ground for his showdown last fall. While still waiting to take
office, he urged lawmakers, many of whom he already knew from his years in the Assembly, not to
approve new contracts for state workers during their lame-duck session. Once he came into office, he
would need "maximum flexibility," he said at the time, to handle the state's coming budget.
In the end, after emotional fights in both legislative chambers (one lawmaker was deposed by his
colleagues from his leadership rolej.Mr, Walker got his wish. And that gave him his chance to push his
own plan. Last week, he aunounced that he wanted to require state workers to pay more for pensions and
health care; to remove most collective bargaining rights, aside from wages, from discussion; and to
require unions to hold aunual membership votes.
As the battle here grew into a standoff, with the protesters' numbers swelling every day and the
legislation tied up and waiting to be voted on, Mr. Walker said he was feeling.perfectly fine..
To the anger of his critics, who say he thrives on publicity, he has been on television and radio call-in
shows and has taken phone calls of support from some of his Republican friends. He said he was
speaking with Gov. Chris Christie ofNew Jersey on Thursday night while exchanging e-mail messages
with Gov. Mitch Daniels ofIndiana, whom he describes as a "great inspiration and mentor," and Jeb
Bush, the former governor of Florida.
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"Months from now, when this is enacted and people realize it's not the end of the world," Mr. Walker
said, "not all, but I think the vast majority, including the vast majority of the public employees, will
realize this was not nearly as bad as they thought it was going to be. And we'll get back to work in the
Capitol."
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For Wisconsin Governor, Battle Over State Finances Was Long in the Making ,
By MONICA DAVEY
MADISON, Wis. ~ Just last fall, people here were waving campaign signs. But the blocks around the
State Capitol have been filled for the past week with protesters brandishing signs with a different
message ~ demanding a recall of Gov. Scott Walker, calling him a bully and-llkenlag-lsim-te-Scrooge,
Hosni Mubarak, even,Hitler. '
Seemingly overnight, Mr. Walker, a Republican, has become a national figure, the man who set off a
storm of protest; now spreading to other states, with his blunt, unvarnished call for shrinking collective
bargaining fights and benefits for public workers to help the state repair its budget. '
Wisconsin may seem to the rest of the country like uri unlikely catalyst, but to people who have watched
the governor's political rise through the years, the events of the'week feel like a Scott Walker rerun,
always pressing f~r austerity, and never blinking or apologizing for his lightning-rod proposals.
sought changes to pension and health contributions and workers' hours. At one point, he proposed that
the county govermnent might want to consider, in essence, abolishing itself. It was redundant, he
suggested.' ,
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Wisconsin last week to block a vote on Mr. Walker's call to cut benefits. Mr. Larson knows the
governor well, having served on Milwaukee County's board when Mr. Walker was the executive. He
matter.
to out-right-wing the.rightwing on his way to the next lily pad."
."This doesn't.faze me,one bit," Mr. Walker said Friday as thousands of protesters from around the
country marched and screamed and filled every unguarded crauny of the Capitol, just as they had all
week.
He said he had seen plenty of labor protesters before. Crowds of them in green T-shirts once even
"I'm not going to be intimidated," Mr. Walker said, "particularly by people from other places."
Mr. Walker, 43, is the son of a Baptist preacher and a former Eagle Scout. He opposes abortion. He rides
on wheat) - a fact he has been fond of mentioning on campaign' trails. His political heroes: 'Tommy
, Mr. Walker once lost a bid for class president atM'arquette University (which he attended but did not
By 2002, when a pension scandal engulfed the Milwaukee County government, the county executive
stepped down and Mr. Walker ran on a reform platform to replace him. He was never an obvious fit for
a county that leans Democratic and that, in the view ofMr. Walker, was "addicted to other people's
money."
Mr. Walker describes himself as a fiscal conservative with a populist approach. Itis.a label that many in
from Tea :em:ty supporters, who planned counterprotests this weekend in Mr. Walker's defense.
Republicans took control of the State Assembly, the State Senate and a United States Senate seat held by
a longtime incnmbent, Russ Feingold, in addition to the governor's office. Former Gov. James E. Doyle,
a Democrat, did not seek re-election, and Mr. Walker - who promised to bring 250,000 new jobs to'
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the Republican majority leader in the State Senate after the election and whose brother became the
make change, that the more feathers you ruffle this time, the better you'll be."
Within. days of becoming governor, Mr. Walker - who hung a sign on the doorknob of his.office that
" .. of workers would need to reapply for theirjobs.
of his critics point to now as a sign that Mr. Walker made the state's budget gap worse, then claimed an
Democrats here say Mr. Walker's style has led to a sea change in Wisconsin's political tradition.
Democrats," said Graeme Zielinski, a spokesman for the state's Democratic Party:. "But he is a hard-
.. right partisan who does not negotiate, does' not compromise. He is totally modeled after a slash-and-
burn, scorched-earth approach that has never existed here before."
.have needed police escorts to leave their offices. Protesters have swarmed to Mr. Walker's home,
." apparently to the deep dismay ef'his-wifer-Tonette.
approve new contracts for state workers during their lame-duck session. Once he came into office, he
would need "maximum flexibility," he said at the time, to handle the state's coming budget.
. colleagues from his leadership role), Mr. Walker got his wish. And that gave him his chance to.push his
own plan. Last week, he announced that he wanted to require state workers to pay more for pensions and
require unions to hold aunual membership votes.
legislation tied up and waiting to be voted on, Mr. Walker said he was feeling perfectly fine.
shows and has taken phone calls of support from some of his Republican friends. He said he was
with Gov. Mitch Daniels of Indiana, whom he describes as a "great inspiration and mentor," and Jeb
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said, "not all, but I think the vast majority, including the vast majority of the public employees, will
Capitol."
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For Wisconsin Governor, Battle Over State Finances Was Long in the Making
By MONICA DAVEY
MADISON, Wis. - Just last fall, people here were waving campaign signs. But the blocks around the
State Capitol have been filled for the past week withprotesters brandishing signs with a different
message.c-- demanding a recall of Gov. Scott Walker, calling him a bully and likening him to Scrooge,
Hosni Mubarak, even Hitler. '
Seemingly overnight; McWa1ker; a Republican;lras become anationalfigure; the man who set off a
storm of protest, now spreading to other states, with his blunt, unvarnished call for shrinking collective
bargaining rights and benefits for public workers to help the state repair its budget.
Wisconsin may seem to the rest ofthe country like an unlikely catalyst, but to people who have watched
the governor's political' rise through the yearathe events ofthe weekfeetliRe a Scott WalKer rerun,
always pressing for austerity, and never blinking or apologizing for his lightning-rod proposals.
sought changes to pension and health contributions. and.workers' hours, At one,point, heproposed that
the county govermnent might want to consider, in essence, abolishing itself. It was redundant, he
suggested.
Wisconsin last week to block a vote on Mr. Walker's call to cut benefits. Mr. Larson knows the
governor well, having served.on.Milwaukee County?s,board,when,Mr...Walkes was-the executive. He
matter.
to out-right-wing.the right wing on his way to the next lily pad."
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"This doesn't faze me one bit," Mr. Walker said Friday as thousands of protesters from around the
country marched and screamed and filled every unguarded crauny of the Capitol, just as they had all
week.
He said he had seen plenty oflabor protesters before, Crowds of them in green T-shirts once even
"I'm not going to be intimidated," Mr. Walker-said, "particularly by people from other places."
Mr. Walker, 43, is the son of a Baptist preacher and a former Eagle Scout. He opposes abortion. He rides
onwheat) - a fact he has been fond of mentioning on campaign trails. His political heroes: Tommy
Mr. Walker once lost a bid for class president at Marquette University (which he attended but did not
By 2002, when a pension scandal engulfed the' Milwaukee County government, the countyexecutive
stepped down and Mr. Walker ran on a reform platform to replace him. He was never an obvious fit for
a county that leans Democratic and that, in the view of Mr. Walker, was "addicted to other people's
money."
Mr. Walker describes himself as a fiscal conservative with a populistapproach.It is a Iabelthat many in
from Tea Party supporters, who plauned counterprotests this weekend in Mr. Walker's defense.
Republicans took control of the State Assembly, the State Senate and a J]nited States Senate seat held by
a longtime incumbent, Russ Feingold, in addition to the, governor' s.officc.Formec Gov. James.E. Doyle,
a Democrat, did not seek re-election, and Mr. Walker - who promised to bring 250,000 new jobs to
.rthe Republican majority leader in the State Senate after the election and whose brother.became the
make change, that the more feathers you ruffle this time, the better you'll be."
Within days of becoming governor, Mr. Walker -who hung a sign on the doorknob of his office that
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of workers would need to reapply for their jobs.
of-his critics point to now as a sign that Mr. Walker made the state's budget gap worse, then claimed an
Democrats here say Mr. Walker's style has led to a sea change in Wisconsin's political tradition.
Democrats," said Graeme Zielinski, a spokesman for the state's Democratic Pmty. "But he is a hard-
right partisan who does not negotiate, does not compromise. He is totally modeled after a slash-and- "
burn, scorched-earth approach that has never existed here before."
have needed police escorts to leave their offices. protesters have swarmed to Mr. Walker's home,
apparently to the deep dismay of his wife, Tonette.
approve new contracts for state workers during-their-lame-duck session. Once he came into' office, he
would need "maximum flexibility," he said at the time, to handle the state's corning budget.
colleagues from his leadership role), Mr. Walker got his wish. And that gave him his chance to push his
own plan. Last week, he aunouncedthathe wanted-to-require-state workers to pay-more:for pensions and
require unions to hold annual membership votes. '
legislation tied up and waiting to be voted on, Mr. Walker said he was feeling perfectly fine.
. shows and has taken phone calls of support from some of his Republican friends. He said he was
with Gov. Mitch Dan~l~ ofIndiana, whom he describes as a "great inspiration and mentor," andJeb
.said, "not all, but I think the vast majority, including the vast majority of the public employees.will ,
Capitol."
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Ristow, Nate - GOV

Sent: Friday, February 18, 201111:20 PM
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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. Scott Walker this afternoon:
Dear Governor Walker,
.. we've learned that earlier today public employees across the state made very clear their willingness to cooperatively
accept additional 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's deficit going forward.
This development confirms to us that the Capitol demonstrations all this week were not about an unwillingness to
bargain pension or heaith insurance concessions, but rather about the 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 by many 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 deveioped 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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Sent: Friday, February 18, 20115:15 PM
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Subject:' (WisPblitics)'REPORT"· 1'8' February 20'1'1'
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: http://budget.wispolitics.com/
WisPolitics REPORT
18 February 2011
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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'Oems; proclaiming he's confident tie-end 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 Eipenbach; O"Waunake8;"on'the'OemboycottofthestateBenate'vote:' See more in
the Budget Blog: http://budget.wispolitics.coml
That's not democracy. That's not what this chamber is about.

- Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald, R-Juneau.
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.
- President Barack Obama du'ring an interview with Milwaukee TV station this week. Some
liberals, however, knocked Obama for not 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, O-Poplar, phoning home from the road. Jauch said the 14 Oem 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?RIO=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 Oems, 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 party-line approval of the
budget repair bill.
This. is.not about protecting..our pay and our benefits. It is about protecting our right to
collectively bargain.
- WEAc President Mary Bell calling on Wisconsinites to "come to Madison" in support of
teachers and public employees. Many schools were forced to close on Thursday and Friday
because of teacher absences.
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.
- John Matthews of Madison Teachers lric. on Wednesday, the first of three days Madison
, schools closed due to teacher absences. Hear the)nterview with WTMJ-AM
http://www.620wtm;.com/podcasts/wisconsinsaftemoonnews/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.
- UW System President KevinReillyandRegents Chuck Pruitt and Mike Spector ina letter
asking Walker not to split the flagship Madison campus off from the rest of the UW System. See
the letter: http;//wj§politic~.cQm/1006/110216 UW Walker Letter.pdf
The one-size-fits-all does not work, will not work.

- UW-Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin saying that while all UW schools need flexibility, she
wants to see UW-Madison become a new pUblic authority in order to better absorb a state
budget hit.
I would use the word devastating.

- MPS Board President Michael Bonds on forthcoming cuts to public education in Walker's two-
year budget plan.
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 Sul/ivan in
the Milwaukee County executive primary Tuesday.
It's going to be a lot about people being able to deliveron-what-yeu-tatk about.

- State Rep. Jeff Stone, R-Greendale. See more in the WisPolitics Election Blog:
http://elections.wispolitics.com/
We're going to show that you can face your challenges by working with your employees,
working with your workers cooperatively in order to find solution to the challenge that we see as
the opposite to the Walker way, wnieh-iswaqing-war on employees-
- State Rep. Joe Parisi, D-Madison, on his win in the primary to replace Kathleen Falk as Dane
County executive.
My sense of this 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
and who want accountability in government. .
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- Dane Co. Supervisor Eileen Btuskewiiz, 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
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.
- 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.
POLITICAL STOCK REPORT

--A collection of insider opinion--
(February 12-J 8)
Rising
Dave Prosser: The conservative justice says he was a little apprehensive heading into the
primary with heavily Dem 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
with 55 percent of the vote,3D points better than second place finisher JoAnne Kloppenburg ..
Considering the strong performance, insiders now wonder how hard liberals will go after him.
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,
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conservatives are already showing signs they're going to target her as anti-business and anti-
c;
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 Dems admit it will be an uphill battle.
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
philanthropist Chris Abele, now formally endorsed by Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, will be
able to coalesce the Dem 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,
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 conneet-with the-qrassroots. But others argue Abele
will do his due diligence between now and the primary and has the money to cultivate the
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
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-Dem union base, that might be looking-for an
outlet to show its displeasure with Walker and Republicans in general.
Joe Parisi: The Dem 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-
way primary featuring four Dems and one fringe candidate, she pulls in just 22 percent -- not
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exactly a numberthat'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 Dems who will file in behind Parisi. In
addition, there's a contested Madison mayoral contest that should drive up turnout in the heavily
Dem city, giving the Dem candidate an even bigger advantage.
Brad Co.urtney: TheJoyaLSc.ottWalker 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 about to 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 fundraising 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 OOP 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 oppositiorrto'Vvalker 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, calling 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, showing 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 local level. This week's massive protests already have Dems 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
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 friendlies worry Walker's "running ahead of
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
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 Oems. If nothing else, say election watchers, it guarantees some
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
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
a proposal to eliminate public employee unions altogether but was told that would never fly in
the Senate. The Senate Oems' 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 offWalker
and the details of his proposal. But insiders say more heat will be on the way if predictions of
big Walker cuts to school and municipal aid come true Tuesday.
Senate Oems: They fail to show Thursday when it comes time for Senate debate on the Walker
repair bill, providing added drama to Capitol proceedings and denying the. guv a quick victory.
Their flight to Illinois gets them plenty of media attention to their slow-down-the-bill approach.
But insiders wonder about the long-term consequences if the gambit goes too far. Some
observers see attack ads against Oems next year that say, "It's 10 a.m. Do you know where
your state senator is?" But Oems 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
Minority Leader Scott Fitzgerald takes a series of shots at Oems for their behavior, foretelling
difficult relations between the two sides in the coming months.
Pedro Colon: Following his appointment to a Milwaukee Co. court seat by former Oem 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"primarywithjust 36 percent
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
of his own.
Falling
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
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 of turns as public employees look to channel their anger into the April election. Soglin,
some speculate, benefited from the protests that hearken back to Soglin's Vietnam-era entry
into politics. Cieslewicz countered with a post-primary call for an emergency council vote to
..' extend key union.aqreernents 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 downpfays the tuition angle, saying
efficiencies and increased financial aid can keep tuition affordable.
CAPITOL CHAOS SLOWS REPAIR BILL
The state Senate ground to a halt for a second straight day as Oems 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 Oems decided to walk out.
But Democrats have been in caucus since a moming 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 exiting the office saying, "You're not going to trample on our minority rights."
Fitzgerald replied, "You're not goin§tocauGus·klf18·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 Employ:ee Unions chief Marty Beil said unions were willing to meet
C.-
Walker halfway.
"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 half way. 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 B19g:

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 budqet repair bill was still tied up. The gIN, 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 coming in the document.
-- Education groups have been warning this week that the guv will cut education aid by $900
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 asslstance-proqram, ·promptingfears by someDems-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 to make 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 changewill be in the
budget bill despite objections from System officials.
There's talk Walker may try something similar with UW-Platteville with one GOP source
suggesting he may spin it off into 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 Pocan, 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 6.2
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
-Sorne-Republicans have batted around-Tim Sullivan's name as possibly their next Ron-
Johnson.
And the Bucyrus International Inc. 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 argued that it would be difficult for any self-financed candidate to get an upper
edge on Kohl considering the personal wealth of the ry1i1waukee 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-memoer-of-elther 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 Oem Gov. Jim Doyle.
"I 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 largestreferendum on the'springprimary'ballot;a'$9Amilliofl-measurein,
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.
-ln 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 in 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 employees are just the beqinninq," 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 riqht-to-work state' -- something GOP lawmakers actively·talked· about in .
December.
"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- lJutthey· arqued-that nextfiseal-year's-budqet
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 thafgovernment that takes away rights of people," Barca
added. "I think that this is a powder keg for the Republican Party."
Listen to the luncheon:

http://wispolitics.com/1006/110215BarcaMiller.mp3
-Upcoming Luncheons
.Two more monthly luncheons have been scheduled: March 1 with JFC co-chairs Vos and
Darling and April 18 with Congo Paul Ryan.
University Research Park, Wal-Mart, WHO Law, and Xcel Energy.
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;::;
WisPolitics.com interview: DATCP SECRETARY BEN BRANCEL
When Ben Brancel was DATCP 1O-plusyears 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 atthe-structureof the ageney," 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 1
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 fitth-qenetation 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
NEW MULTIMEDIA
**WisPolitics.com Audio
- Sen. Scott Fitzgerald interview

- Gov. Scott Walker press conference
- Protesters chanting outside Gov. Scott Walker's press conference
- Q&A with Gov. Scott Walker
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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
.. Listen to.these and other audio clips at the WisPolitics Audio Archive:
http://www.wispolitics.comlindex.iml?Content=173 .
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/upfronU·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 WTMJ-4 in Milwaukee.
"For the Record" airs Sunday at 10 a.m. on WISC-TV in Madison.
NAMES IN THE NEWS

Send items to staff@wispolitics.com
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:
nttp;//www.wicourts.gov/sc/opinion/DisplayDocument.pdf?content=pdf&§.egNo=600]9.
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/archivej/htmArchive/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: btlp~jwisRoliticS.coD1jindex.inil?

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:
http://www.wisRolitics.com/index.iml?Article=226944
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-mad ison-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: httR://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.m. Thursday at
"" the Fluno Center, 601 University Ave., Madison. See details: httR:/Iwww.energy.wisc.edul?
JE3521
Scheduled presenters at the AAAC quarterly legislative breakfast include Sen. LENA TAYLOR,
Milwaukee County Supv. JOHNNY THOMAS and Milwaukee Ald. ASHANTI HAMILTON. See
details: httR:/IWWW.wisRolitics.com/index.iml?Article=226950
For more Names in the News, see subscriber products from earlier in the week plus the
WisPolitics.com press release page: http://www.wisRolitics.com/index.lml?Content=21
For upcoming events, see the "Week Ahead" ln-this-produet-and- in your e-mail,Monday' "
morning. Click here for the online calendar: http://www.wispolitics.com/index.lml?Content=22
If you have a contribution, e-mail staff@wispolitics.com
LOBBYIST WATCH
(from the state Government Accountability Board)
Authorization tolobby
Organization employing lobbyist Lobbyist name Granted Withdrawn
Columbia-St. Marys Inc Hoven, Timothy 1/19/2011 2111/2011
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Wisconsin County Police Association Zelenkova, Ramie2/1 7/20 I 1

Wisconsin Education Association Council Boyer, Amy 2/17/2011
Wisconsin Education Association Council Engel, Andrew 2/17/2011
Wisconsin Education Association Council Osborne, Patrick 2/17/2011
Wisconsin Society of Radiologic Blumenfeld, 2/17/2011
Technologists Michael
Wisconsin State Council of Carpenters Reihl, Mark -2/17/2011
American Federation for Children Fonfara, Thomas 2/16/2011
American Federation for Children Seitz, Robert 2/16/2011
Boldt Construction Stenger, Scott 2/16/2011
CenturyLink (formerly CenturyTel Service Boyer, Amy 2/16/2011
GroupLLC)
CenturyLink (formerly Century'TelService Engel, Andrew 2/16/2011
GroupLLC)
CenturyLink (formerly CenturyTel Service Fassbender, 2/16/2011
GroupLLC) RobertI
Americash Loans of WI, LLC 'Partenfelder- 2/15/2011
Moede, Peggy
Miron Construction Greer, Jim 2/15/20 II
Miron Construction Morby, Joshua 2/15/2011
Time Warner Cable Flynn, Celeste 2/15/2011
Wisconsin Bio Industry .Alliance - Morby, Joshua- 2/15/2011 -
Wisconsin Bio Industry Alliance Welch, Robert 2/15/2011
Wisconsin Community Papers Kilgore, Kathleen 2/15/2011
Wisconsin Community Papers Swandby, Janet R2/15/2011
Wisconsin Early Childhood Association Inc Schmidt; Ruth 2/15/2011
ARAMARK Correctional Services, LLC Holman, Mark 2/14/2011
Community Health Partnership Inc Blumenfeld, 2/14/2011
Michael
Southeast Dental Associates Schreiber, Martin 2/14/2011
Spaulding Clinical Research, LLC Julius, Buddy 2/14/201'1'
American Resort Development Association Carey, Ray 2/11/2011
American Resort Development Association Childress, Jason 2/11/2011
American Resort Development Association Walby, Kathleen 2/11/2011
Brown County Citizens for Responsible Wind Kussow, Michelle2/11/2011
Energy, Inc,
Brown County Citizens for Responsible Wind Scholz, Brandon 2/11/2011
Energy, Inc,
Wisconsin Automobile & Truck Dealers Hubbard"Gregory2/11/2011
Association Inc
Wisconsin Automobile & Truck Dealers Tyre, Scott 2/11/2011
Association Inc
Wisconsin Automobile & Truck Dealers Wilson,Al 2/11/2011
Association Inc
Wisconsin Automobile & Truck Dealers Zelenkova, Ramie2/11/2011
Association Inc
Wisconsin Library Association Strand, Lisa 2/11/2011
Wisconsin Public Health Association Hoven, Timothy 2/11/2011
Wisconsin Public Health Association Natzke, Ryan 2/11/2011
Wisconsin Public Health Association Welsh, Michael 2/11/2011
Connections Academy Inc Fonfara, Thomas 2/10/2011
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General Motors LLC (formerly General Fonfara, Thomas 2/10/2011

Motors Company)
General Motors LLC (formerly General Seitz, Robert 2/10/2011
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 (AHlP) Langenohl, Tony 2/9/2011
America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) McCoshen, 2/9/2011
William J
AT&T Wisconsin Disch, Kent 2/9/2011
ATC Management Inc. Langenohl, Tony 2/9/2011
ATC Management Inc. McCoshen, 2/9/2011
William J
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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Sent: on d u 21,20115:04AM
To: .. Gilkes, Keith - GOV; Murray, Ryan. M - GOV; Schutt, Eric - GOV; Werwie,
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Subject: AP for compromise 3 senators are needed
FYI Fitzgerald says his caucus remains rock-solidI but something to keep an eye on.
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 prot~sts that have consumed Wisconsin's capital city for a week a~d made the
state the center of.a national debate over the ~ole 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's hiding out
that Schultz was brave for making the proposal. He said Schultz, of Richland Genter, and
five or six other Republican senators who have ties to organ~zed labor are in the best
position to get both sides to negotiate a deal.
'So far,' there'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" "Tock,'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
enemYt" she said the pay cut would hurt, but that's not why she was protesting.
HI 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 collectiv~ bargaining law in 1959.
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It's also the birthplace of the American Federation of Stater County and Municipal
Employees r 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 gover~ments 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 r speaking from nan undisclosed location in northern
Illinois r lf said it's up to Republicans who privately have concerns with Walker's plan to
force the governor to compromise.
"I think it's important those talks begin.because there's a lot of Repuplicans that are
uncomfortable with stripping away the rights of workers," the Monona Democrat said. "They
recognize public workers are their constituents and neighbors and wan~ them respecte~. We
need·to find a way for those Republicaps to be able to ,be part of a solutio
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Ristow, Nate - GOV "
From: Gilkes, Keith - GOV
Sent: Saturday, February 19, 201112:10 PM
To: Schrimpf, Chris - GOV; Werwie, Cullen J - GOV; Schutt, Eric - GOV; Murray, Ryan M - GOV
subject: Re: Revised statement
Good' with Eric's edits'". Have"it come f rom Cullen.
----- Original Message -----

From: Schrimpf, Chris -" GOV
To: Gilkes, Keith - GOVi Werwie, Cullen J - GOVi Schutt, Eric -'GOVi Murray, Ryan M - GOV
Sent: Sat Feb 19 12:06:13 2011
Subject: Re: Revised statement
Keith and eric will send as soon as you guys approve. Quote can be from cullen or me
Original Message -----

From: Schrimpf, Ghris - GOV
sent~.:" "" uary ~9, 2011 ~2:02 PM
To: ( . . ; G1.1kes, Ke.i.th - GOVi .Werwie r Cullen J - GOVi Sohut.t., Eric - GOVi
Murr:ay 1 Rian M -
Subj ect: Revised statement .
Revis~d 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. Jhe 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 their jobs.
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Ristow, Nate « GOV
From: Schrimpf. Chris - 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

To: Sch~impfl Chris - GOV; ~ Gilkes, 'Keith - GOV; Werwie, Cullen J -
GOV; Murray, Ryan M - GOV .
Subj act: Re: Rev.i.s'ed statement
I would add to return to Madi~on in last sentence. Also, add Senator Mille+ts name in
there somewhere
Original Message
Sent~ry 19,2011 12:02 PM
To: ~ Gilkes, Keith- GOV; Warwie r Cullen J - GOV; Schutt, Eric - GOV;
Murray; Ryan M - GOV
Subject: Revised statement
Revised draft statement. Edited to keep the focus on the Senate Oems leaving their jobs.
tax hike in 24 hours with no public input. The quickest· way to resolv&·the 0lirrent
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 their jobs.
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Ristow, Nate - GOV
F'rom: . Schrimpf, Chris - GOV
To: Gilkes, Keith - GOV; WeN/ie, Cullen J - GOV; Schutt, Eric - GOV; Murray, Ryan M - GOV
Keith and' eric will send as soon as you guys apprpve. Quote can be from cullen or me
sent~. . tu da February 19, 2011 12:02 PM
To:~. Gilkes, Keith - GOVi Werwie, Cullen J - GOV; Schutt, Eric - GOVi
Murray, - yan - - . _. ---'
~ubject: Revised statement
Revised draft statement. Edited to keep the focus on the Senate Dems leaving their jobs.
Senator Erpenbach and his fellow Democrats phould come back to Wisconsin to do their joQs.
tax hike in 24 hours with no public input. The quickest way to resolve the 'current
debate the bill in Madison. We continue to calIon them to come and do their jobs.
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Ristow, Nate - GOV
Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2~
To: Schrimpf, Chria- GOV;~Gilkes, Keith - GOV; Werwie, Cullen J - GOV;
Murray, Ryan M - GOV' .
I would add to return to Madison in last sentence. Als?, add Senator Miller's name in
there somewhere
Original Message
Sent~ry 19,201112:02 PM
T o : _ Gilkes, Keith - GOV; Werwie t 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.
These are many of the same Senators who, two years· ago, rammed through a billion dollar
t?X hike in 24 hours with no public input. The quickest ~ay to resolve the current
debate the bill in Madison. We continue to· callan them to come and do their jobs.
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Ristow, Nate - GOV
Sent: '~19,201112:03PM .
To: ~ilkes, 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 Oems leaving their jobs.
These are many of the same Senators who t two years ago, rammed through a.billion dollar
tax hike in 24 hours with no public input. The quickest way to resolve the current
debate the bill in Madison. We continue to calIon them.to come and do their j9bs.
8
Ristow, Nate - GOV
From: Miller, Robert - DOT
To: DOT DL EXEC WisDOT Today
SUbject: WisDOT Today for Thursday, Feb. 17, 2011
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. After
checking with DSP, Peg indicated there had been no request for the State Patrol to playa role. Robin Colbert
with WIBA radio in Madison spoke with Maj. Dan l.onsdorf (DSP) on the same topic.
• Reporterswith TV'7'in Wausau, KSTPin" Minneapolis and the Marshfleld'Newsspoke withCapt, 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 and at least one fatality. The
State Patrol is investigating and reconstructinq the crash scenes.
• Laurel Walker with the Milw. Journal Sentinel spoke with Andy Smieja, Bob Gufterrez, Wafa Elqaq and Micaela
Morin (SE Reqlon) regarding the 1-94 East-West repavinqproject, Discussed the project limits and directions of
work in each county, the March 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 Mitchelf Interchange construction coordination.
.. Jeff with WTAQradio in Green Bay spoke with Michael Panosh (BOTS)'regarding a grant funding an OWl law
enforcement initiative in Brown County.
Rob Miller
WisDOT Office of Public Affairs
Hill Farms state Transportation Building
4802 Sheboygan Ave., Room,103B·
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Madison, WI 53707-7910
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SUbject: Morning News Update OZ:18.11
Office of Governor Scott Walker - Morning News Update for February 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 Q.ther.5iistrictsglosed oc<lclID'.l'd.
• Watch the'Governor's-FoX"& Friends 'interview this morning.
• Governor Walker - Headline on Drudge Report
Governor Walker - Television Clips forJlrid!!y,.Eebruary 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 stillbargain 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.
Gov. Walker's Pretext

Editorial- The New York Times-
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 ofworkers, students and union supporters rose to a boil on Thursday, as state
lawmakers prepared to vote on landmark legislation that would slash collective 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 Up

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 ofunion laws in years, as government workers flooded the statehouse for a third day
seeking to block passage of the bill.
Wis. 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.
Wiscon.sin State Senator ;M:arkMiller C.alls_Governor ScottWall(l~r's1!J,l.1lget Tac!iQ.s 'IIJfl.!Ilting,~

Asks for 'Respect'
ABC News
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 (Update~)

Bloomberg
Feb. 18 (Bloomberg)-- In what union leaders say is becoming a national fight, protests against legislation to
restrict public employees' collective-bargaining rights spread from Wisconsin to Ohio.
Obamajoins 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 Republicanbill that would curb public-worker benefits while planning
similar action in 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
Wisconsin legislators milled about the lobby and parking lot, a news chopper hovered overhead and a TVreporter
... "chased after a leprechaun. .
Milwaukee
The Dems' tantrum

Democrats in the state Senate threw a temper tantrum 'Thursday - essentially they took their ball and went home.
IlliJ).ois ..,arL't fetch Dems, laFYers~

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.
Faith leaders voice support for unions

When MilwaukeeArchbishop Jerome Listeckilent his voice to this week's legislative debate over collective
bargaining by public employees, he was drawing on more than 100 years of Catholic social teaching, which has
endorsed the role of labor unions in creating a just 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

Wisconsin Reporter
With more than a hundred union supporters protesting just outside his office, Gov. Scott Walker on
Thursday 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 of being 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

Thursday was not the first time Wisconsin lawmakers have walked off the job to avoid a painful vote. But it was
one of the most dramatic.
Walker Jll"Qllosal 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 $7.1million in federal transit aid, about a sixth of the utility's $42.4 million budget for 2011, officialssaid.
Green BayjAppleton
As public sector unites against Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker's union plan, private sector split
in Fox Valley
Appleton Post-Crescent ,
For some private sector workers, Gov.Scott Walker's forceful approach with public workers unions isn't at all out
ofline.
Senate Democrats wrong to leave state

Editorial- Appleton Post-Crescent
Today, we criticize the 14 Senate Democrats for using the wrong means to a worthy end.
Wisconsin Democrats make a run for thl" border 1:Q..protest Gov. Scott Walker budg~tbill
Green Bay Press-Gazette '
State Democrats could not stand by and watch the Senate take up a bill aimed at stripping collectivebargaining
rights from public employees, Assistant Senate Minority Leader Dave Hansen of Green Bay said Thursday
evening.
Bill halted by Democrat retreat

Faced with a near-certain Republicarrviotory thatwould end-a halfocenturyofcallective'bargaining far public
workers, Wisconsin Democrats retaliated with the only weapon they had left: They fled.
La CrossejEau Claire
Senate stalemate: Democrats flee 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. Speaking from an "undisclosed location," Vinehout said, "This
was the only choice we had to slow things down."
Protests spread to campus; UW-L faculty to proceed 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'twantto 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."
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 Walker plan

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 state budget repair plan.
Protestors flood Capitol again, Democratic senators flee state

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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.
Wausau/Rhinelander
Lassa: 'We want to slow down' golicv changes

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 suggort recall for lawmakers voting yes on budget 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 grotest 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.
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Gov. Scott Walker's proposal to strip public employees of their collectivebargaining rights, and the social and
political unrest it has created, is like nothing longtime University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point political science
professor Ed Miller has ever seen.
As UWSP students march, faculty and staff members weig1LQp_til!ns for resI!2-J:lse
.Students' at the University ofWis~onsirr-Steverrs·Pointjoined peers' from UWinstitutions'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 sgeak out against Walker's budget gill

Marshfield News-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 grotesters

Marshfield News-Herald
President Barack Obama has weighed in on the side of Wisconsin public employees, as angry protesters in
Madison continued to vent over Gov. Scott Walker's plan to radically restrict collectivebargaining rights.
Superior/Duluth
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 collectivebargaining rights for most public employees.
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SUbject: ICYMI Washington Post Obama 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
Washington Post Staff Writers
Friday, February 18,2011; AOI
MADISON, WIS. - President Obarna 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 in other state capitals.
Obarna accused Scott Walker, the state's new Republican governor, of unleashing 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
officials to mobilize thousands of protesters to' gather inMadison and to plan similardemonstrations in
other state capitals.
Their efforts began to-spread; 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 rights.
By the end of the 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," Obarna 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 our states 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 governor, spoke to union leaders in
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Madison, a party official said.
The group made phone calls, distributed messages via Twitter and Facebook, and sent e-mails to its state
and national lists to try to build crowds for rallies Wednesday and Thursday, a patty 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 stern 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 Americaabout solutions to the fiscal challenges
that are destroying jobs in our country," Boehner said in a statement, alluding to the president's call for
civility in 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 himself 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 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 ofmillions ofdollars 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 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, many states 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
line. '
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
an 11 a.m. quorum call. Republicans hold a 19 to 14 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 employed 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 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 bill down the
potty." "Walker's Plantation, open for business." "You will never break our union."
Many ofthe protesters, including Laurie Bauer, 51, had been on hand since Tuesday, withno 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, but collective -bargaining
'rights are not.
"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-thebudget-choices state

leaders are facing probably will have direct implications for 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 GOP governors perceived as taking on special interests to cut
spending.
Obama, in his comments to the Wisconsin TV reporter, tried to walk a fine line - noting that he, too, has
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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 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 employees and,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 companies I 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 sympathy from these guys in private-sector
, .manufacturing companieswho I think reflect alot 0:& the workers in the state who say what we're asking
for is pretty modest."
dennisb@washpost.com wallstenp@washpost.com
Wallsten reportedfrom Washington. Staffwriter Michael A. Fletcher in Washington contributed to this

report.
Chris Schrimpf
Email: chris.schrimpf@wisconsin.gov
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From: Hogan, John [John.Hogan@legis.wisconsin.gov]

Subject: Re: JS'says Larson is.in his office
He's not in there, tho we couidn't get a trooper in there. Another option we'll reserve is strip out the fiscal part and
just pass the collective bargaining stuff. I'm going to get drafting on this just in case.
From: Murray, Ryan M.- GOv. <RyanM.Murray@wisconsin.gov>.

To: Hogan, John
Sent: Thu Feb 17 14:02:47 2011
Subject: Fw: JS says Larson is in his office
Catch him.

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. Sent: Thu Feb 17 14:01:15 2011
Subject: JS says Larson is in his office
http://www.jsonline.com/newswateh/116381289;html··
Brian K. Hagedorn
Chief Legal Counsel
Office:
Cell:
brian.hagedorn@wisconsin.gov
4/13/2011
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-- Protesters occupied the Capitol for the third straight night and thousands are Today's calendar
expected again today to voice their opposition to Gov. Scott Walker's budget DCWraR
repair bill. Budget Blo-9,
Quorum Call
The Assembly will be on the floor at 9 a.m., A spokesman for Assembly Speaker Jeff WisOpinion.com
Fitzgerald said it's possible the Assembly may take up the bill prior to the Senate. WisBusiness.com
Senate. Dems, who fled the state yesterday in protest of a floor session to vote on the
bill, are saying they won't return before Saturday.
-- This morning in the Capitol there are people scattered on the floor in sleeping
bags.
The area outside the Assembly is roped off in anticipation of the floor session today,
and a heavy law enforcement presence remains.
Assembly Democrats are continuing the listening session that's been going almost
constantly since the Republican-run Joint Finance Committee's public hearing was
suspended at 3 a.m. Wednesday.
-- Many Wisconsin schools, including many in southern Wisconsin, are closed

again today as protests at the Capitol intensify.
Madison schools are closed for the third straight day.
The Department of Administration yesterday said nine arrests were made in the.state.
Capitol yesterday.
The agency estimates that about 25,000 protesters converged on the Capitol
,yesterday -- the highest total reported yet. DOA said 20,000 were outside, with 5,000
more inside.
-- Senate Dems' decision to flee to Illinois to stall Senate action on Gov. Scott
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Walker's controversial budget repair plan brought a spate of national publicity.
Walker appeared on Fox News' "On the Record with Greta Van Susteren."
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Most of the 14 Dem senators appeared from an undisclosed location on MSNBC's

"The Ed Show," where-FreEl·Hisser·and Mark Miller explained the situation. Schultz
broadcast his national radio and TV show live from the Capitol Square and planned to
do it again today.
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. State Sen. Jon Erpenbach was on CNN.

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State Sen. Glenn Grothman phoned into the '''Chris Matthews Show"
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And Bill O'Reilly on Fox had liberal radio talker Sly Sylvester from Madison. Click on
"Insurrection in Wisconsin" http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/oreillylindex.html
-- The national attention has drawn supporting words from Illinois Sen. Dick
Durbin and national AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka..
Trumka is due to address protesters at noon today.
-- And Wisconsin Tea Party.activists plan a rally of their. own.5aturday.at the

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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 Dems disappeared around midday, prior to scheduled
budget repair debate. Sen. Erpenbach called from undisclosed
location, "The plan is to try and slow this down." Sen. Taylor tweet
said Dems were "doing the people's business." Walker called
disappearance "disrespectful."
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41644074/ns/us news-lifel?GT1 =43001
- Senate Dems 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 tiring 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.
Dem Sen. Erpenbach lists bill objections.
ht!p://www.wrn.com/2011/02/senate-dems-hitcthe-road-to-delay-vote-audio/
- Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker: GOP won't be 'bullied': Walker on Fox

News on Dem exile: "I think it'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://www.politico.com/news/stories/0211/49800.html
- Democrats flee Wisconsin to protest union curbs: Sen. Erpenbach to

VVjsPolitics: "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 ..VVe.are.broke..~' UCal"Berkley
Prof. Shaiken comments.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/sns-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 arrivedatthe 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."
hItp://www.rrstar.com/Carousel/x43522562/Wiscgnsin-Democrats-flee-to-Rockford-to-
bloc!s::'1.nti-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 little 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.businessnorth.com/kuws.asp?RID=3784
- [exiled Senate Minority Leader] Miller says Dems will 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. Oresang comment.
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/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/2011/02/17/ryan-equates-wisconsin-protests-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 ONC to suspend these tactics."
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-- Gov. Scott Walker is calling on Senate Dems to come back to the Capitol. But Sen. Jon
Erpenbach, one of the Oems who left the state rather than take up Walker's budget repair bill,
said he and his colleagues want Republicans to agree on changes to the legislation first.
"We have time," Erpenbach said.
-- Walker said at a late afternoon press conference that he's been "hard at work all day"
and urged "the state Senate to show up and do their jobs as well."
Walker said the protesters outside his office "have every right to be heard. But we need to
make sure they're not drowning out the voices of the millions of taxpayers of Wisconsin."
Walker said his office has received 8,000 emails, most of them telling him to hold firm.
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 changes.
"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 said.
Walker predicted after Oems "do their stunt for a day or· two" they'll comeback and do their
jobs.
-- Senate Minority Leader Mark Miller said Oems who have left the state are 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 he hasn't yet reached out to Senate Republicans to
talk about a possible resolution.
He said Oems 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 airn 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 Dems' declsicn 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.
Fallowing a call of the house in the Senate, Serg eant at Arms staff searched Oem offices for
the lawmakers. As of late this afternoon, no decisions had been made on whether to send
State Patrol outside the Capitol to begin looking for lawmakers and bring them back to the
Capitol, according to a spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald.
Sources told WisPolitics this afternoon at least some of the Oems were in Rockford, 'III. But the
sources said they may be on the move before long.
-- Laura Rose, deputy director of the Legislative Council, said the state constitution
allows each house to compel the attendance of absent members-underpenalties 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.
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 Derns were willing to stay away, Erpenbach demurred. He said Republicans
should look at how the proposed changes are tearing the state apart and realize a different
path is needed.
" "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."
-- The Senate Oems' absence recalled a story from the Texas Legislature.
More than 50 Democratic legislators fled to neighboring Oklahoma for four days in a dispute
over a redistricting bill. '
See a Houston Chronicle story from May 2003:

httRJ/~ .cl}ron .com/disRLstoJ:Y~mp IIspeQial/0311§gislature/1912638.htmJ
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-- Going into today, the plan had been for the Senate to go first before the Assembly
takes up the bill.
A spokesman for Assembly Speaker Jeff Fitzgerald, 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 estimate of yesterday's crowd.
DOA pegged the number of protesters outside the building at 20,000 with another 5,000 inside .
..." DOA.alsoannounced the first arrests.this.week, saying nine people were taken into custody.
The agency didn't immediately respond to a request for 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 officers to exercise "extreme measures of tolerance."
"What we've seen here is probably the most dramatic exercise of the Democratic process,"
Mahoney said.
-- 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.
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 of leadership 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
released a poll that found a majority of respondents oppose the guv's budget repair bill.
One-third of those 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 believed public employees should pay more for their health care
and retirement benefits, but Walker's plan went too far. Another 35 percent 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://www.wispolitics.com/1006/BSW POLL PRESS RELEASE FEB 17 2011.pdf
-- The state GOP is using the protests over Walker's bill as a fund raising tool.
RPW Executive Director Mark Jefferson issued an e-mail this afternoon saying: "Governor'
Walker's budget repair bill is under attack! Liberal filmmaker Michael Moore has called on
union activists to "shut down Wisconsin" and to recall Governor Walker. Thousands of far left
special interest groups and union radicals are protesting the Capitol parading signs which
compare our Governor to Hitler. And just last night, 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. ...(It) will provide us the tools-needed-to combat the unlon's-strong-armed
tactics."
Follow tonight's developments in the Budget Bloq:

http://budget.wispolitics.com/. .
-- Tributes to Bill Bablitch are pouring in after the former Supreme Court justice died,
Dane County Exec Kathleen Falk today hailed Bablitch as a particularly skilled and articulate
environmental leader in the state Senate and a highly respected jurist and legal scholar.
Babliteh passed away last night at his winter home in Hawaii. He was 69.
"I could not have had a better friend," Falk said. "In fact, he and his wonderful wife Ann hosted
my wedding at their home -- and even cooked the dinner. I will truly miss his grand story-
telling, astute political advice, and warm friendship."
Chief Justice Shirley Abrahamson said: "He brought to the court a wealth ofknowledge and
experience as a former prosecutor, legislator and Peace Corps volunteer. His diverse interests
- fishing, cooking, gardening - found their way into many of the opinions he authored."
*See Falk's statement:

http..:/lw.ww.wispQ.litics.comfindex.iml?Article=2272Q~
*See a statement from Abrahamson:
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http://www.wispolitics.comfindex.iml?Article=227270
-- Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett today endorsed Chris Abele for Milwaukee County
exec.
See more:
http://www.wispolitics.comfindex.iml?Article=227272
From WisOpinion.com ...
-- Bl0.ggers are.weigl:ting-in on Gov. Scott Walker's budget repair bill, the decision by
teachers to skip school to protest in the Capitol and the political implications of it all.
See more:
http://wisopinion.com/
OTHER HEADLINES
WISN: Wisconsin Senate Democrats leave Madison

AP: Wis. police cuff Capitol protester

http://host.madison:com/news/state and regional/article 1f62bd97 -d219-5d91-bcc2-
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AP: Protesters cheer Wis. Assembly Democrats

http://host.madison.com/news/state and·. regional/article, ~1407c22-918t'-534,1-aG7b
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 thinking

http://www.wrn.com/2011/02/rural-school-reform-requires-reshift-in-thinking/
Appleton Post-Crescent: Former state Supreme Court Justice Bablitch dies

http://www.postcrescent.com/article/20110217/APC0101 /110217085/Former-state-Supreme-
Court-Justice-Bablitch-dies
CNN: Showdown over a government shutdown

hItp://politicalticker.blQg.s.cnn.com/2011L02/17/boehner~-r~ad-m)':lips-pJedgE:!:9overnment
shutdown-battle-looms/
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WisPoliti«s ALERT!
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-- Sen. Jon Erpimbach told WisPolitics this afternoon Senate Oems left the state in an
attempt to force Republicans to negotiate a compromise to proposed changes to the
bargaining rights of public employees. .
Erpenbach would not disclose where he was or how many of the Oem senators were with him..
But he said he believed all 14 were already outof state byearly-thls afternoon.·
"We were left with no choice," Erpenbach said.
Asked how long they were prepared to remain outside Wisconsin, the Middleton Oem
demurred.
"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," Erpenbach said. "When are we going to be
reasonable about this and slow things down?"
"We have time."
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Timeline of Union & Senate Democrats Budget Related Events

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Walker Calls Democrat legislators Back Into State

Madison-Today Governor Walker released the following statement:

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With a 19-14 majority, Republicans need 20 members present for a quorum.

"Clearly they just decided to check out today," Fitzgerald said.

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Collective Bargaining is a Fiscal Issue: Part 2

Example #1 Paid-Time Off for Union Activities

Example #2 Surrender of Management Rights

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-- The Assembly could be in for another long night.

"Something doesn't smell right," Rep. Mark Pocan, O-Madison, said.

"There is no conspiracy," Vos, R-Rochester, said.

Follow developments in the Budget Blog:

Questions about Walker's alleged ties tobrothers,Oavicil,anEl- Charles,' Koch·intensitiedteday

See the Koch statement:

-- The guv also addressed questions over the prank call.

*Listen to the news conference:

"He's in a tough spot," Fitzgerald said.

Listen to Fitzgerald's Q&A:

-- Republicans continue to push. ahead with other.ltems.on.thele agenda.·

See the hearing notice:

-- The Joint Committee on Legislative Organization chairs have sent a ballot to

-- A D.C.-based watchdog group has requested that the Government Accountability

absent Democratic senators.

See the press release:

-- The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee announced today it's targeting

See DC Wrap for the text of the call targeting Duffy:

-- Sen. Glenn Grothman is circulating three bills among his colleagues.

See more below.

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