This is insane:
Fitzgerald: Dem senators won't be allowed to vote in committees
Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald wrote this afternoon in an email to his caucus that Senate Dems remain in contempt of the Senate and will not be allowed to vote in committees despite returning from their out-of-state boycott of the budget repair bill vote.
"They are free to attend hearings, listen to testimony, debate legislation, introduce amendments, and cast votes to signal their support/opposition, but those votes will not count, and will not be recorded," wrote Fitzgerald, R-Juneau.
For weeks on end, all we heard from Republicans was that Democrats had a duty to return to the state and vote on Scott Walker's union-busting legislation. Then they figured out a way to game the system, and now that the Democrats are back, they aren't even letting them vote at all. I guess that's what you call democracy, Wisconsin GOP style.