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According to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel editorial board, the state employee union contracts should not have been approved.  The editorial board stresses that the lengths to which Democrats went to try to get the contracts approved demonstrates why voters soured on Democrats in November's election.

In the editorial published Thursday, the Journal Sentinel editorial board writes:

"When the vote in the Assembly is dependent on someone who gets out of jail to cast the deciding vote and when even the Senate majority leader breaks with his party to result in a 16-16 tie in that body, that might be a signal that the party's position is suspect."

Click here to read more from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Governor-elect Scott Walker and his Transition Team requested that Democratic legislators wait to vote on the state employee union contracts until taxpayers had 10 days to review the contracts.  Unfortunately, in an act that may be unprecedented for Wisconsin, an extraordinary session of the state Legislature was approved today which could result in same day ratification of the state contracts.

In a story published today, the MacIver Institute explains that same day ratification of state contracts may be an act unprecedented in Wisconsin history, but that it certainly has not happened in the last 10 years.  The Institute is still conducting research to give a definitive answer on whether or not this has happened in Wisconsin history.

During the last two legislative sessions, the legislature had an average of 9 days to review the contracts between the time the Joint Committee on Employment Review (JCOER) submitted the contracts and the time the legislature voted to approve them.

Today, there could be merely hours between the time the JCOER hands the contracts to the legislature and the legislature approves the contracts.  Click here to read more from the MacIver Institute.

And, check back in with the WISGOP Blog for updates.