So I was just heading to bed, when I read this.
UPDATE: Apparently embedding links on DK4 isn't the same as before, having trouble figuring it out and I'm past bedtime as is. Here is the link to the full text. Cheers!-redhaze
http://news.yahoo.com/...
UPDATE 2: LINK TO THE COMPLETE E-MAIL EXCHANGE HERE (h/t to dk user begone)!!
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Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has offered to keep certain collective bargaining rights in place for state workers in a proposed compromise aimed at ending a nearly three-week standoff with absent Senate Democrats, according to e-mails released Tuesday by his office.
Yup, collective bargaining: Back on the table. Folks, we are winning! And its not just on the issue of collective bargaining:
Under the compromise floated by Walker and detailed in the e-mails, workers would be able to continue bargaining over their salaries with no limit, a change from his original plan that banned negotiated salary increases beyond inflation. He also proposed compromises allowing collective bargaining to stay in place on mandatory overtime, performance bonuses, hazardous duty pay and classroom size for teachers.
They are caving left, right, and center. Walker has dug himself into a pit from whence there is no return. And he knows it. He needs a way out. They are still asking for too much. I suggest we make them squirm a bit, give them nothing, then recall their asses for even trying this shit.
Senate Republicans spent hours going over the compromise plan Tuesday morning in a closed-door meeting, Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald said. He acknowledged that pressure was increasing on the senators, saying the recall efforts launched against eight Republicans was "on everybody's minds."
"Everybody's obviously receiving a lot of pressure," Fitzgerald said. "I had people on my front porch before I left this morning."
The pressure is working. To all those people out there in Wisconsin: You are my heroes, each and every one of you who is out there in the cold, fighting for democracy. Keep it up! We. Are. Winning.
PS My apologies about the short diary. But this news is just too good not to be out there for everyone to see. And believe!