Solidarity

Firefighters joined teachers at the capital to protest Governor Walker's bill that removes some of the Teacher's Unions collective bargaining rights.

Meanwhile, Wisconsin National Guard members are visiting prisons to prepare to take over if prison guards walk off the job to join the protests.

Governor Walker's response in a public address this evening was to warn of layoff's if the Democrat legislators fail to return to work. Ultimately, Walker is placing the blame for some 5-6,000 layoffs anticipated immediately if the bill is not passed on the shoulders of the Democrats who ran away to Illinois.

Included in that bill is a Medical Assistance reform bill, noted below, which may affect those with diseases such as Aplastic Anemia and Leukemia whose lives are dependant upon costly medical procedures, namely bone marrow transplants.