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Your Democrat Party: Running away from America's problems.

How nice. I hope they pay the bill for their little "seminar" and not Indiana taxpayers. There is no way Indiana should pay for these cowards' "seminar". No way.

http://www.news-gazette.com/news/pol...-illinois.html

Indiana Dems at home in Illinois

Wed, 02/23/2011 - 5:27pm | Tim Mitchell

URBANA – A majority of the Democratic members of the Indiana House of Representatives have temporarily moved to an Urbana hotel in an effort to prevent votes on bills they consider to be bad for teachers, workers and families.

"This is not a walkout; it's a seminar that is taking place in a lovely place: Urbana, Illinois," said Indiana House Minority Leader Patrick Bauer of South Bend.

According to Bauer, the Indiana House has 100 members – 60 Republicans and 40 Democrats. He said a minimum of 67 members need to be present to have a quorum to vote on bills.

Democrats want Republicans to drop efforts to push a voucher bill that would direct taxpayer money to private schools and a so-called "right-to-work" bill that prohibits union membership from being a condition of employment.

Bauer said that all but three Democrats left Indianapolis, with about 25 of them staying at the Comfort Suites in Urbana.

Bauer said the rest of the Democrats were in other locations for personal reasons.

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Seminar? I think it of more as a minicoupvacation. It's becoming de rigueur in the Midwest.