Wisconsin's Big Government Republicans Sweep Away local Voter Control, Attack and Repeal Paid Sick Leave!!!

In case you might have forgotten, the Republican won the last election and they are calling the shots now. So what if Milwaukee voters overwhelmingly approved, by 69%, a referendum requiring paid sick leave? Wanna make something of it..?

Business paid for and elected these Republican snakes and governor, and got what they wanted, the power to usurp the will of the peoples. When will these big moneyed corporate sycophants be held accountable?

jsonline: The state Assembly passed a bill that will void Milwaukee's ordinance requiring employers to provide workers with paid sick leave. Milwaukee voters approved the measure by referendum after 9to5, National Association of Working Women, got enough signatures to put the issue on the ballot. The ordinance received 69% of the vote. 

The GOP-led Senate approved the bill last month 19-0, at a time when all 14 Democrats were out of state. The bill would pre-empt local governments from enacting paid sick day legislation.

There's more...from Wispolitics:

 "Who are we, as a legislative body, to question 69 percent of voters in the city of Milwaukee?" asked Rep. Christine Sinicki, D-Milwaukee, "We're questioning their ability to make decisions, we're questioning their ability to go to the voting booth." … No co-sponsors of the bill reside in Milwaukee. 

Rep. Cory Mason argued "You can't undo a local referendum just because you don't like the results ... "It's just wrong." 

 Typical of the Republican response, they do one thing and claim the other…

Rep. Richard Spanbauer, R-Oshkosh, countered that he supports local control … and that members of both parties voted to override local smoking ordinances in the statewide smoking ban bill. 

 The smoking ban? But that overrode different plans to created one big statewide smoking ban, it didn't wipe it out.

Spanbauer said "I think the bottom line on this is that it is hurting business," Spanbauer said.

 As opposed to hurting people who need a paid sick leave day? But there's more, with ZOMBIES, from this jsonline update:

"It allows them to run their business, not government," said Rep. Chris Kapenga (R-Delafield), one of the bill's authors. 

Rep. Terese Berceau (D-Madison) saying Republicans lacked humanity and were unable to look people in the eyes when they argued for their policies. "You don't want to look at anybody," she told them. "It's 'Night of the Living Dead.' It's zombies." 

When Speaker Pro Tem Bill Kramer (R-Waukesha) asked Berceau if she was calling Republicans zombies, Berceau responded: "That would be a compliment." 

"We need to create a system where the rules are the same community by community," said Rep. Jeff Stone (R-Greendale). Democrats countered the bill was an assault on local government and the will of voters. 

"Why don't we just eliminate local government and rule everything from Madison?" Rep. Chris Danou (D-Trempealeau) said sarcastically.

Which brings us back, full circle, to our Big Government Republicans.