On and on

The protesters at the state capitol are a bit like the Energizer Bunny - they keep going and going, wound up periodically by out of state union organizers.

Earlier in the weekend, the police announced that the people who have been living in the building for about the last two weeks would need to leave at 4 p.m. Sunday, as the cleaning crews needed the room to work. On Sunday, however, the police announced no one would be arrested for refusing to leave, as long as they moved their feet so the floor scrubbers could get through, and stopped bringing more sleeping bags, easy chairs and animals (other than service animals) into the building. 

National media has been buzzing around like flies, baiting traps for local tea party activists, becoming very frustrated with their bait going untaken. The fugitive senators are still just that - fugitives, refusing to do their jobs and in great danger of recall elections.

The main issue now, however, is that the lack of a vote on the budget repair bill is about to cost the taxpayers of the state a HUGE amount of money - the $165 million that would be saved by refinancing some of the state's outstanding bonds.  That needs to be done in the next couple of days, and the bill needs to be passed to do it.

I can only hope the lawyers are working on finding legal grounds to haul the missing senators back home from their (probably union-sponsored) hideaways and force them to do their jobs.  Enough is enough.