View: 02.18.11 | Assembly Floor Session (Part 4)
(direct link to video here, thanks, Nick)
Minority Leader Peter Barca gave an impassioned speech and called the move "unprecedented" and "illegal." He said "I know you are just so eager to tramp on peoples' and workers' rights, you can't just wait, can you?" Barca called for the vote to be struck.
Fitzgerald had the Assembly to stand informal while he consulted with his Republican colleagues.
At 5:07 p.m. Barca asked the chair to clarify at what time the voice vote occurred. After two minutes Braca returned to the floor and pointed out that Amendments two and three were bypassed without a vote, which is against Assembly rules.
Braca held up the rules of order and said: "If any of you have a shred of decency you will not let these people up here to allow you to ignore these rules. You took an oath of office. I don't know if you took it seriously or that you think that now that we have a Governor who wants to be a Government-of-One you can do whatever you like. Well, you can't, you absolutely can't. We have two other amendments before us that you did not take up. Did not take up. Never ever in the history of this body has that happened. I doubt it's ever happened in any body. Honest to God, what is wrong with you? Are you really that eager to shut down this process, to strip people of their basic worker rights that you're willing to do anything?"
Hintz addressed the chamber at 5:13 p.m. after Barca and said he had received an email from Republican Rep. Scott Suder telling him to be at the Assembly at 5 p.m. He told Suder that "5 o'clock means 5 o'clock."
He said "if you want to jam through a bill you gotta sit through the messy process that is democracy."

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Actually, Walker was elected into office most likely because the RGA spent a whopping $3.4 million on TV ads and mailers attacking Walker's opponent; in addition to this, add $43,000 from the Koch Industries PAC during the 2010 election.

That donation was his campaign's second-highest, behind $43,125 in contributions from housing and realtor groups in Wisconsin.
Do not forget this: The Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce, Inc. and the Wisconsin Chamber of Commerce Foundation, Inc. made campaign contributions of $950,000.00 to Republicans and conservatives.

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