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The Plum Line - Missing Wisconsin Dem speaks: We're MIA until GOP drops assault on workers rights #wiunion #solidarityWI

The Plum Line - Missing Wisconsin Dem speaks: We're MIA until GOP drops assault on workers rights

Missing Wisconsin Dem speaks: We're MIA until GOP drops assault on workers rights

By Greg Sargent

I just got off the phone with Wisconsin State Senator Chris Larson, one of the Democrats who has left the capitol in order to stall the GOP's plan to rolll back the bargaining rights of public employees. Speaking to me by cell phone from an undisclosed location, Larson said he and his fellow Democrats would not return until the GOP takes its assault on organizing rights "off the table."

"Each of us is in a secure location," he told me, confirming that they were not all together but were monitoring events on the Web and on Twitter. Larson refused to say whether he and his fellow Dems had left