Report: Wisconsin State Troopers sent to Wisconsin Senate Minority Leader’s home… UPDATE: Nada

posted at 11:25 am on February 18, 2011 by MadisonConservative

Wait for it…

Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald, R-Juneau, told reporters Friday that two state troopers are on their way to Senate Minority Leader Mark Miller’s home in Monona.

Miller, who at this time is the only reported Democratic senator in Wisconsin — the other 13 are reportedly still in Illinois — will be escorted back to the Capitol if he is home when the troopers arrive, Fitzgerald said.

Fitzgerald added Miller would not be arrested, though.

Then what exactly are they going to do? What is the point of this? To try to intimidate him into reporting to the Senate floor? It’s meaningless without the threat of force. This goes back to what Ed was talking about. How can citizens compel their elected officials, or rather, their employees, to work? What, threat of maybe being voted out of office two years from now, at the earliest?

While the teachers who are pissing and moaning about having to pay 50% of the national average towards their health insurance and pensions cry that representation through unions is a “human right”, the majority of Wisconsin residents are wondering about their right to representation through their government. Representation by 14 people who claim to stand with Wisconsin residents…while sitting in Chicago.

Update: He wasn’t there. Sounds like he’s still “standing with his constituents”.

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