‘No cop in the state’ would arrest WI Senate dems

[babsbunny]

‘No cop in the state’ would arrest WI Senate dems

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/04/02/no-cop-in-the-state-would-arrest-wi-senate-dems/

By David Ferguson
Saturday, April 2nd, 2011 -- 8:18 pm
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Wisconsin Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald was warned by legal representatives of three separate state agencies that ordering state troopers to forcibly return senate democrats to Madison would place his actions in a zone "outside the law", according to the Wisconsin State Journal. The Journal has obtained memos and e-mail from Fitzgerald's office and the office of Sergeant-at-Arms Ted Blazel through a public records request.

Fitzgerald now admits in an interview with the Journal that his efforts to compel the Democrats back to the State House were "a mess" and that when he tried to give a statewide order for law enforcement to arrest the missing lawmakers, “There was no cop in the state that would enforce it.”

[iemitsu]

1. fitzgerald is an ass.

what did he expect?

[DBoon]

3. that Wisconsin would be like Texas?

When the Federal Department of Homeland Security was used to track down missing Democrats

[iemitsu]

4. yeah, i remember that episode.

but that was texas and not wisconsin.

[blogslut]

6. I think Fitzgerald's action were a bigger abuse

The Killers D's were hiding. Tom Delay ordered DHS to find them but from everything I've read there was no order to arrest them.

[Mojeoux]

2. These people act like they've never heard of

Tom Delay.
He'd tell 'em. "Troubles 'a comin' Boys!"

[charmay]

5. I can't believe how republicans

think that they are above the law. They actually don't think that rules apply to them.