WI Senate Vote - Actual Footage! MUST SEE!

3/9/2011 Senate hearing in Madison Wisconsin.

Transcript:

Representative Barca: No Wisconsin Court decision will allow meetings unless you have good cause to provide less than 24 hours notice of a meeting. The provision, like all other provisions of the open meetings law must be construed in favor of providing the public with the fullest and most complete information about government affairs...

Chairman: Representative Barca.

Barca: that's compatible with government business...

Chairman: Representative Barca. Clerk, call roll.

Barca: NO EXCUSE ME It says if there's any doubt as to whether or not good cause exists the governmental body should provide 24 hours notice. This is clearly a violation of the open meetings law. You have been shutting people down...

Members: Aye.

THIS MAKES A MOCKERY OF DEMOCRACY! RECALL THEM!

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• senate
• vote
• unions
• workers
• workers rights
• republicans
• recall
• wi
• wisconsin
• madison

[Effedup]

Judge Sumi ruled that the open meetings law WAS VIOLATED this morning and struck down the law's passing.

All I can say is THANK GOD!!!!!!!!!

[johnny5k]

@Effedup That's great news! At least there's still a small sign of integrity in our government!

[johnny5k]

@Maxwedge12000 WI Public workers SHOULD make more than private sector - they're more educated! 59% of full-time WI public workers hold at least a four-year college degree, compared with 30% in the private sector. So when you actually figure in education, public employees are actually paid LESS than private sector for someone with the same education level. Teachers, nurses, police, all are well educated, and make up the majority of public workers. Or maybe you want non-college educated teachers..

[Maxwedge12000]

@johnny5k A college degree does not entitle anyone to anything. A degree gets you in the door and after that it is performance that matters. All of our public school teachers have 4 year degrees and 60% of our 8th graders cannot read at a proficient level. With those results, you can take all of those degrees and wipe your ass with them as they are doing our children little good. Yes, I want non-college educated teachers as the educated ones have failed our kids terribly.

[johnny5k]

@Maxwedge12000 "Yes, I want non-college educated teachers" You've got to be kidding me. You're going the wrong way. If we valued teachers more, and paid them better salaries, the profession would attract more of our brightest people. I agree that tenure & seniority deciding who stays needs to be dropped, and we neet to reward performance, but you can't seriously want uneducated people teaching our kids! We should pinpoint the problems - not just privatize the entire system.

[kenannmartin]

Wow, these Reps. are sickening! Recall them all! You have the rest of the nation behind you. Those of you in WI that don't think public opinion is with the workers are sorely mistaken. I am a small business owner in CA and this is a disgusting display of the misuse of government power. I pay a higher tax rate than most, 20% which I am ok with because I know that it is necessary to keep society functioning. Good luck when your test scores plummet and illegal workers are brought in to do the work

[KiwiCrossing]

This is a disgrace.

RECALL ALL 18 OF THEM!

[jimmyg4life]

@Effedup I rather thank Judge Sumi.

[rjl1184]

RECALL WALKER 2012!

Peter Barca for Assembly Speaker 2012!

[fullerjohn1119]

WI GOP have no respect for law and order. Recall the bastards!

[CubsFanJohn]

@KiwiCrossing

NO RECALL the 14 Fleabags!!!!!!!!!

[starview1]

@enjoyitbro turns out it was the democrats that were wrong.

[starview1]

@Effedup the State Supreme Court ruled Sumi's judgement WRONG, and no laws were violated, the democrats that ran in the face of their duty as elected officials should be fired! Further.. Sumi made a political ruleing, not a legal ruling and that was wrong. Sumi apparently had no idea of what is Wisconsin law. Barca apparently is also not aware of the proper proceedures either.

[Maxwedge12000]

@pumpsiegr The source of the data is US department of education. Just do a google search with these terms, "wisconsin 8th graders not proficient readers". You have my point all wrong. Johnny5k stated that public workers should make more then private sector workers because they are more educated. Total BS, but I am attacking the value of teaching degrees and I am not assuming any correlation between teacher education and student outcomes as the results prove.

[pumpsiegr]

@Maxwedge12000 First of all, cite your source. Second, you're assuming a direct correlation between teacher education and student outcomes without accounting for the influence of other factors (e.g., income level, family status, teacher-student ratio, quality of materials, teacher compensation).

[enjoyitbro]

Now that the judge said it was in fact a violation of the open meetings law. Well its not like Fitzy boy can say no one told him, Barca is yelling it right at him, all they would have had to do is give 24 hour notice to this and it would have passed. What clows the WI republicans are