Wisconsin Budget/Union/Student Protests, Day 5 Update
As everyone knows by now, the Democrats in the Wisconsin state senate took a powder yesterday, fleeing the state to deny the body a quorum and force a pause in Governor Scott Walker’s plan to eviscerate the state’s public employee unions. Early yesterday evening the senate’s Reupublican leadership bowed to reality and put the senate into recess for the night.
Here’s the latest:
Wisconsin’s Dem state senators are still AWOL in Illinois, but Jesse Jackson made an appearance today in the capitol rotunda, addressing the crowd of activists who have packed the building in recent days. AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka also addressed the crowd.
The head of the state’s largest public employees union offered to compromise on benefits if Walker would back
