Lasee was instrumental in gutting the prevailing wage for WI workers--now skips to Mexico vacation

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Oh, I so despise these Republicans!


Wisconsin's Sen. Frank Lasee (R-De Pere) Mexico vacation changed budget schedule, sources say http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/news/312514981.html … #wipolitics #voteblue


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By Mary Spicuzza of the Journal Sentinel

July 8, 2015 9:55 a.m.

Madison -- State Sen. Frank Lasee (R-De Pere) repeatedly said the Senate moved to vote on Wisconsin's budget Tuesday -- rather than allowing the Assembly to take it up first -- because Republicans in that house had the votes to pass his plan to overhaul the state's prevailing wage law.

We got the votes. I think we got the votes, and that's why we're moving forward. And moving first. And I think then we started to hear that there was some hang up in the Assembly, maybe some behind-the-scenes games being played on this issue. And I think that's all resolved now," Lasee told reporters Tuesday as the Senate headed to the floor to debate the budget. "Some of the Assembly's leadership had been saying that we were the weaker house. That we wouldn't be able to pass this reform, or any real meaningful reform, and they offered a much weaker package."

But a half-dozen Republican sources said one key reason the Senate leap-frogged the Assembly and took up the budget first was that Lasee had refused to delay a family vacation to Mexico.

Myranda Tanck, a spokeswoman for Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald (R-Juneau), declined to comment when asked whether Lasee's vacation plans shaped the budget schedule................
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Taking away local control once again.

Lasee was instrumental in gutting the prevailing wage for Wisconsin workers--now skips to Mexico vacation!

http://fox6now.com/2015/07/07/latest-senate-votes-17-16-to-repeal-states-prevailing-wage-law/

...The Lasee Plan added to the budget today includes:

1) Repeal for all local governments, technical colleges, schools, and municipal utilities........


http://fox6now.com/2015/07/07/latest-senate-votes-17-16-to-repeal-states-prevailing-wage-law/


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State Sen. Frank Lasee (R-De Pere) is seen ina file photo.

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1. Speaker Robin Vos confirms senator's Mexico vacation changed budget schedule

new headline on this issue.....


http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/news/312514981.html
Speaker Robin Vos confirms senator's Mexico vacation changed budget schedule

By Mary Spicuzza of the Journal Sentinel
Updated: 12:14 p.m.

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Madison -- Assembly Speaker Robin Vos (R-Rochester) confirmed Wednesday that a Republican senator's Mexican vacation plans changed the state Legislature's schedule for voting on Gov. Scott Walker's $72.7 billion state budget.

State Sen. Frank Lasee (R-De Pere), who crafted the "Lasee Plan" to overhaul the state's prevailing wage law, had repeatedly said the Senate moved to vote on Wisconsin's budget Tuesday -- rather than allowing the Assembly to take it up first as planned-- because Republicans in that house had the votes to pass his wage plan.

But a half-dozen Republican sources told the Journal Sentinel Tuesday that one key reason the Senate leap-frogged the Assembly and took up the budget first was that Lasee had refused to delay a family vacation to Mexico.
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"It's sad, because we had an agreement worked out where we were going to go first. We were going to allow a separate vote on the prevailing wage bill, which was really the preference of our caucus. And then we were told throughout the negotiations that they had to go first because Sen. Lasee had a vacation that was booked going to Mexico, and he didn't want to change his plane ticket," Vos said. "So, I totally understand, as somebody who had vacation plans myself, that sometimes you have to make changes."..............

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2. Has apple vacations changed the name to asshole vacations?