Wisconsin Democratic senators pressured to return by Gov. Scott Walker, GOP | greenbaypressgazette.com | Green Bay Press Gazette Basically, the Senate Majority Leader has been granted the responsibility of reviewing and approving the AWOL Senators' payrolls. If they aren't there, I imagine the Leader is going to send their staffs home, without pay, until the Senators return. The budget has to be passed tomorrow in order to prevent the layoffs. Tomorrow will be a VERY interesting day in this saga. The runaways have about 2 more weeks in the spotlight. Then the recall petitions will start.
Republican wanting more done for less, who would have thunk that. My goodness we need 100,000 people to do the job as we want it done, but we can't pay them so lets just share the pain, we will keep everyone because we need them, but we will steal from them what we have guarenteed them over the years because they settled for less in wages. tax.com: Really Bad Reporting in Wisconsin: Who 'Contributes' to Public Workers' Pensions?
They can only recall those who have served over 1 year. And that can only happen after they've been absent for 30 days. We're into week 3 now, so a couple of weeks out, and we'll see the beginnings of removing them from office.