Senate Passes State Budget, Focus Moves to Recalls
The state Senate voted 19-14 to adopt the 2011-13 state budget over the shouts of protestors.
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After hours of emotional debate Thursday, the state Senate approved the state biennial budget, prompting praise by Gov. Scott Walker and vows by opponents to recall supporters.
The vote at 10 p.m. was along party lines, 19-14.
Immediately after the vote, Walker released a statement, saying, "I am proud of the work done by the Legislature, which passed a budget today that isn’t built on accounting gimmicks, use of one time money for ongoing expenses, or tax increases.
"The budget approved by the Legislature is an honest document that balances Wisconsin’s $3.6 billion budget deficit so that our children and grandchildren aren’t saddled with mountains of debt in the future," the governor said.
Opponents shouted protests as the roll call vote began, but the Majority Speaker told them to keep calling the roll even though some senators' votes could not be heard.
The focus now shifts to the recalls of nine lawmakers, six Republicans and three Democrats.
Mark
9:05 am on Friday, June 17, 2011
Great job for the adults in goverment who made the tough vote to erase what Doyle and Thompson did to us with spending and looting of funds. Walker told us this is what he was going to do and for once a politican who came in and did what the voters wanted.
For those of you on the outside who voted and supported the losing canidates spend your time getting ready for the next election and quit making fools of yourself as zombies and drum beaters
Nate
3:16 pm on Friday, June 17, 2011
huh?
Craig Johnson
3:05 pm on Friday, June 17, 2011
Thanks, Sen. Darling, for gutting our schools, authorizing bail bondsmen in the state , increasing taxes on the poor (by cutting the earned income tax credit), expanding school choice and limitng access to public officials' ethics statements, all the while protecting millionaires (like yourself) from the "shared sacrifice" mantra. Nice work protecting your main speical interest - the wealthy.
Duane Michalski
7:22 pm on Sunday, June 19, 2011
First of all, the schools are not gutted!! Next bail bondsmen in urban areas like Racine and Milwaukee may not be such a bad thing. As far as the tax credit, it is still there, $2,000.00 instead of $2,500.00...thats hardly going to send them packing. It is still in the top 3 nationwide for free money to those who don't pay taxes anyhow. Please if your going to spew talking points, at least have the facts!! School choice ids a great thing!
Nate
3:14 pm on Friday, June 17, 2011
Watch Darling commit political suicide here! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5GJwcMhmZ0 Darling actually admits she wants to dismantle Medicare and replace it with Vouchercare.
Vote Pasch July 12 and August 9!
Duane Michalski
7:24 pm on Sunday, June 19, 2011
ummm dave...we live in Caledonia, not her district. We can't vote for her!! Buy a map!!
Nate
8:53 pm on Monday, June 20, 2011
I'm in her district. Looks like Patch posts the same content on all the "local" sites.
Craig Johnson
4:35 pm on Friday, June 17, 2011
Sen. Darling also voted against the Wisconsin GI bill, in favor of pay-day lenders, against Senior Care, against funding recycling programs - and again against collective bargaining rights. Thanks for nothing.
Notty
10:57 pm on Friday, June 17, 2011
Sen. Darling also wants to ban puppies, rainbows, and girl scouts.
Desiree Erickson
9:15 pm on Monday, June 20, 2011
Notty - Darling just voted to exempt researchers from animal cruelty laws (see State Budget, line 22 of the Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 to Assembly Bill 40). Darling is also responsible, along with her Joint Finance Committee Co-Chair, of slipping a measure in to the State Budget that requires the City of Milwaukee to pay most fired police officers until all their appeals have been exhausted or they have been charged with certain crimes. So maybe Darling does hate puppies and likes to waste tax dollars on supporting dirty cops.
Bil Mann
11:31 pm on Friday, June 17, 2011
Wow Craig it seems she's in favor of fiscal sanity!
You might prefer the system Greece uses......
it seems to be working great for them
Terry
12:42 pm on Saturday, June 18, 2011
I am truly amazed that we are all riding on a sinking ship, slowly filling with water, and the progressive liberals still want to punch a few more holes in the hull to see how much water it will hold.
Yes, by all means, lets continue the reckless social and entitlement spending. Lets promote job growth by increasing the size of the government work force. Lets continue the tax the rich, class warfare strategy that drove all our good paying jobs out of the state.
Here is a question for all those who believe that taxing the rich and corporations is the solution to the financial hole the progressives have dug for us?
How many of you were ever hired for a good paying job by a poor man?
Michael Pyter
12:02 pm on Sunday, June 19, 2011
First, unions had their day and have since evolved into are legalized extortion. Wouldn't the world be a better place if those Dems in unions would think for themselves instead of letting the unions think for them and then stoke them into a frenzy over issues that have more to do with the unions own profitability/survival than the welfare of their forced membership? Doyle had his term and the unions prospered. Walker deserves his full term and I believe that is what the unions fear most, he will further expose their outdated and unacceptable raid on our tax dollars as if it was just another of their own bulging accounts. What do union members have to fear from pay for performance? Accountability? That's rhetorical, I was in a union, I already know.