Thank you, Senator Risser!
Madison Democrat Fred Risser at Reclaim Wisconsin rally yesterday at the Capitol. He has never lost an election. First elected to the Wisconsin Assembly in 1956, he is the longest-serving state legislator not only in Wisconsin history, but in U.S. history as well.
A year ago, at the age of 83, he gave up the comforts of home for life on the road when he became the senior member of the Wisconsin 14, the the group of Democratic senators who left the state in order to deny Senate Republicans the quorum they needed to pass Scott Walker's union-busting budget bill.
The bill eventually passed, but the Wisconsin 14's courageous holding action provided valuable time for a mass movement to organize. That led directly to last summer's recall of two Republican state senators. And that, in a nutshell, is why the atrocious strip mining bill -- written to the exact specifications of an out-of-state mining company -- was defeated last week. Thank you, Senator Risser!
Thank you, Senator Risser!
Madison Democrat Fred Risser at Reclaim Wisconsin rally yesterday at the Capitol. He has never lost an election. First elected to the Wisconsin Assembly in 1956, he is the longest-serving state legislator not only in Wisconsin history, but in U.S. history as well.
A year ago, at the age of 83, he gave up the comforts of home for life on the road when he became the senior member of the Wisconsin 14, the the group of Democratic senators who left the state in order to deny Senate Republicans the quorum they needed to pass Scott Walker's union-busting budget bill.
The bill eventually passed, but the Wisconsin 14's courageous holding action provided valuable time for a mass movement to organize. That led directly to last summer's recall of two Republican state senators. And that, in a nutshell, is why the atrocious strip mining bill -- written to the exact specifications of an out-of-state mining company -- was defeated last week. Thank you, Senator Risser!