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Gettin’ Interesting Now

by David Kurtz
02.17.11 | 7:50 am

Democrats in the Wisconsin state Senate have staged a walkout to deny Republicans a quorum with which to take up Gov. Walker’s union-busting bill.

Even better, the Republican Senate president is threatening to send out the state police to round up absent Democratic senators.

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