The rumor is that Dale Schulz will switch his vote.
Will Wis. GOP Senators Abandon Walker?http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/260736/will-wis-gop-senators-abandon-walker-katrina-trinkoOne Republican senator, Dale Schultz, proposed that the GOP compromise and only ban collective-bargaining powers until 2013. A source told the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel that Schultz “caught holy hell” from fellow GOP senators after going public with the plan.
So far, only one other Republican senator, Van Wanggard, has publicly even considered Schultz’s plan — and Wanggard ultimately decided that he would vote for Walker’s original proposal.
One source close to the Wisconsin Republican senators reveals that Schultz has a pro-union history. “Schultz represents a very moderate district in Southwestern Wisconsin, and is very pro-union,” writes the source. “He was the original author of a bill that would have given faculty in the University of Wisconsin collective bargaining rights — something even the heavily liberal UW opposed. (He represents UW-Platteville, and the faculty there were pushing him hard to write the bill.) His bill never passed, but eventually university faculty collective bargaining became law in the last biennial budget.”
Brian Schimming, a leader in the state Republican party, doesn’t think there’s any serious danger that three Republican senators will defect.
I heard on a radio show this collective bargaining ban was a year to year thing?
