How Dems are winning: Mark Miller keeps his cool, Scott Fitzgerald blows up

[kpete]

Source: The Capital Times

How Dems are winning: Mark Miller keeps his cool, Scott Fitzgerald blows up

Sometimes, it is simply best to let the members of the Wisconsin Senate speak for themselves about the dispute between the Republicans and the 14 Democrats who have refused to provide a quorum to pass Gov. Scott Walker’s budget repair bill.

Early Monday, Senate Minority Leader Mark Miller, D-Monona, wrote a letter offering to negotiate with Walker and Republican legislative leaders.

Within hours, the governor had held a press conference in which he dismissed and derided Miller’s offer. Then Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald, R-Juneau, replied to Miller with what seemed to us to be one of the crudest letters seen in modern political discourse.

But we’ll let readers decide who is serious about resolving the impasse and who is playing politics.

Read more: http://host.madison.com/ct/news/opinion/editorial/article_337f34a4-ad7d-5db7-8dbd-96581788cd29.html

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LETTERS: http://host.madison.com/ct/news/opinion/editorial/article_337f34a4-ad7d-5db7-8dbd-96581788cd29.html

[Stuart G]

1. K and R

[dhill926]

2. heard Fitzgerald on O'Donnell last night.....

MAJOR asshole.......

[pacalo]

3. Any day now I expect the Walker/Fitzgerald cabal to quote GWB's "We'll smoke 'em out".

Wisconsinites have got to be fed up with those arrogant Republicans who fail to see that the voters are the ones they are stomping on; that the Democrats are fighting for the people.

I'm proud of the 14 Democrats & how classy they've handled themselves.

[ClarkUSA]

4. I notice that WI Democrats are being lauded for wanting a bipartisan compromise.

Let's remember to laud President Obama when he calls for the same thing in the same tone when negotiating with the Teabagger House on the federal budget.

[Scuba]

5. Fitzy is a major jerk, which is the same qualification Squat liked when naming ......

...Fitzy's dad as head of the State Patrol.