{"id":8984,"date":"2011-02-18T07:33:32","date_gmt":"2011-02-18T13:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=8984"},"modified":"2011-11-14T22:48:52","modified_gmt":"2011-11-15T04:48:52","slug":"do-wisconsin-state-legislators-have-to-vote-in-the-capitol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/18\/do-wisconsin-state-legislators-have-to-vote-in-the-capitol\/","title":{"rendered":"Do Wisconsin State Legislators Have To Vote In The Capitol?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Wisconsin (and near Wisconsin, as the case may be), the Democrats in the State Senate have fled the state to prevent a quorum in a vote they would lose (some about it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/news\/opinion\/116355379.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>).  They&#8217;ve holed up in a hotel called the Clock Tower Resort in Rockford, Illinois (just over the border from Beloit).  I mean, really, who thought that would be a good idea?  Am I the first to come up with <em>Wisconsin Democrats Climb Clock Tower<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p>My question is this: Does the legislature have any way to vote outside the capital?  Can the Senate choose to hold its votes elsewhere in case of emergency or other circumstances?  <em>Can the Wisconsin Senate go to Illinois?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Because I think a bus full of Republicans chasing a bus full of Democrats down I-39 into Bloomington would be riveting television.  I&#8217;d tune in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Wisconsin (and near Wisconsin, as the case may be), the Democrats in the State Senate have fled the state to prevent a quorum in a vote they would lose (some about it here). They&#8217;ve holed up in a hotel called the Clock Tower Resort in Rockford, Illinois (just over the border from Beloit). I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wisconsin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8984"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10443,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8984\/revisions\/10443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}