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a kennedy

(29,673 posts)
Tue Jul 24, 2012, 05:34 PM Jul 2012

Cullen leaving Senate Dem caucus, considering whether to become independent.....

What the h*ll is this??

Sen. Tim Cullen sent an email to his Dem colleagues this afternoon announcing he is leaving the caucus, calling the committee assignments doled out by new Majority Leader Mark Miller "an insult to me and the people of the 15th Senate District."

Cullen wrote he will take the new few days to decide whether he will become an independent, but he will not join the GOP.

Cullen is the only one of the 17-member Dem caucus who was not appointed to chair a committee after Dems took back the majority 17-16 following this summer's recall elections.

"This entire episode makes clear to me that Sen. Miller has no time for my independent ideas and my support of bipartisan solutions to the state’s problems," Cullen wrote.

http://quorumcall.wispolitics.com/2012/07/cullen-leaving-senate-dem-caucus.html

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Cullen leaving Senate Dem caucus, considering whether to become independent..... (Original Post) a kennedy Jul 2012 OP
Why can we never get democrats that are fucking democrats? MrSlayer Jul 2012 #1
Liebermanitis DJ13 Jul 2012 #2
sounds like a "poor loser" to me. mzteris Jul 2012 #3
Yeah, childish, sounds like. getting old in mke Jul 2012 #4
Independent ideas my ass. sybylla Jul 2012 #5
can not say i am surprised dembotoz Jul 2012 #6
 

MrSlayer

(22,143 posts)
1. Why can we never get democrats that are fucking democrats?
Tue Jul 24, 2012, 05:39 PM
Jul 2012

Someone always has to be "bipartisan" which, of course, means voting as a fucking republican. All these enemies within, it's sickening.

DJ13

(23,671 posts)
2. Liebermanitis
Tue Jul 24, 2012, 05:45 PM
Jul 2012

A false belief that one can be more important if they straddle the fence and sell themselves out to the highest bidder regardless of ideology.

mzteris

(16,232 posts)
3. sounds like a "poor loser" to me.
Tue Jul 24, 2012, 07:56 PM
Jul 2012

Jealous. Petty. Vindictive. Childish. Are we sure he's really a Dem anyway?

sybylla

(8,514 posts)
5. Independent ideas my ass.
Wed Jul 25, 2012, 01:02 AM
Jul 2012

Check out One Wisconsin Now's take on this
http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/press/one-wisconsin-now-statements-on-cullen-escapade.html

...Sen. Tim Cullen will refuse to caucus with Senate Democrats because they would not remove Jon Erpenbach as chair of the Senate Health Committee in favor of him.

“Congratulations to Sen. Mark Miller for refusing to buckle to Sen. Tim Cullen’s self-serving demands. One wonders on what planet Tim Cullen resides where he thought the unprecedented uprising against Scott Walker’s attacks on Wisconsin was done to put a millionaire, 20-year insurance company executive and opponent of ObamaCare in charge of the committee overseeing healthcare reform in the State Senate.”


Big whiny fucking baby.
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