Quote Originally Posted by knightwolf View Post
well I am not sure what the national news has shown but the bill has been split. The collective barganing has been voted on as a seperate issue and has been passed. They did not need the democrats for this special vote because it did not have a financial impact. Now they can vote on the rest of the budget.
pretty smart eh

now the question is whether that is going to end up as political gain or political liability for the republicans. they're obviously betting that with more corporate money for them and less union money for the opposition the voters would be swayed by the more expensive/better advertising.

i wonder whether the public employees would just go for bankrupting the state. supposedly the reason to kill their collective bargaining power is so that the past contracts can be unilaterally amended, but there's still the rule of the law and it takes a bankruptcy to cancel a debt.