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Thu Feb 17, 2011 4:56 PM EST
This video from inside the Wisconsin state capitol building is not the kind of thing you're likely to see on TV. This is what your friend sends you after they get back, so you can see what you missed. Its pure homemade-ness lets you see how big a deal this Wisconsin standoff has become -- big. As former Senator Russ Feingold told us last night, this is what happens when you poke a badger in the eye.
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, a Republican, has demanded givebacks on wages and benefits from state employees. Mr. Walker also wants to take away their union's right to collective bargaining. Senate Democrats are boycotting the vote. Most of them are said to have left the state rather than give the Republican majority a quorum to hold a vote and pass the "budget repair bill." The Senate majority leader has said he'll use State Patrol officers to track them down if he must.
We'll have much more on this tonight, including a report from the capitol and -- if we can wrangle it -- an interview with a Wisconsin state senator in an undisclosed location (adding: this is a go). Until then, read up on this WisPolitics blog.
(Below, students protesting at Logan High School in La Crosse. Photo: Jeremy Jensen. Send more, please.)
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