Wisconsin Senate Separated

The Senate in Wisconsin has passed the bill to end state workers' collective bargaining rights. Even with all the democrats gone from the meeting, the republicans still managed to pass the bill, causing unrest and protests. Fox News reports on this;

All 14 Senate Democrats fled to Illinois nearly three weeks ago, preventing the chamber from having enough members present to consider Gov. Scott Walker's so-called "budget repair bill" -- a proposal introduced to plug a $137 million budget shortfall.. 

The Senate requires a quorum to take up any measures that spend money. But Republicans on Wednesday split from the legislation the proposal to curtail union rights, and a special conference committee of state lawmakers approved that bill a short time later.

The republicans are strong to cut many measures that spend money. This bill was included in this quorum and has passes even with obvious opposition. The bill was passed hastily and completely ignored the democrats. I'm not sure if the democrats would do this if they were in the same position, but passing such a bill is quite shady. We will see how this goes when the democrats choose to come back.