Then came the union-busting bill proposed by Governor Scott Walker that turned the Badger State upside down.
Bill McCollum, Mr Scott's opponent and Florida's attorney-general, is a drab campaigner who has twice failed to win a seat in the Senate.
Scott clutched the bill tensely in his hand, which he held pinned to his rib cage.
Grassroots conservative leaders were outraged and urged Gov. Rick Scott to veto the bill.
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Republican Governor Scott Walker signed the bill into law March 11, after Republicans used emergency-session rules to push the measure through even though they lacked a quorum in the state Senate.
Bob Scott, Jim Currie, Bill Friedrich, Bud Koch, Janis Kong, Steve Robson and Peter Sutherland leave RBS on Friday.
After some byplay, the spectator would discover that the bill was no longer there, whereupon Scott would pull from his own pocket a small metal tube, secured with a padlock, and remove the signed bill.
Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer and Public Advocate Bill de Blasio were also among those calling for the marathon to be postponed or canceled, as well as several others from hard-hit areas in Queens and Staten Island.
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As peers debated the Public Bodies Bill on 9 November 2010, Lady Scott, a former member of the Audit Commission and the Commission for Integrated Transport, said many quangos spent relatively little and the biggest spenders were those that administered grants.
Wisconsin deserved better than this bill, just as it deserves better than Scott Walker.
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"The sponsors hope a bill will pass this year, " says Scott Peterson, director of Streamlined Sales Tax.
This week attorneys in Washington representing the Florida chapters of the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Academy of Family Physicians and the American College of Physicians wrote a letter to Governor Rick Scott demanding that he veto the bill.
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If the Democrats do show up to vote and several Republicans end up defecting and voting against the bill in its current form, I doubt Governor Scott Walker could survive the fallout.
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Also with Scott Glenn, Ted Levine (as Buffalo Bill), Anthony Heald, and Brooke Smith.
Holyrood looked at the issue previously when former Labour MSP Scott Barrie made an attempt to bring a bill to deal with high hedges in 2002.
Over the weekend, my colleague Rick Ungar reported that governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin was planning to implement a bill similar to the one passed recently in Michigan by governor Rick Snyder.
Mr Scott told the chamber although there were misgivings about the bill, he hoped the government would address them with amendments at the next stage of the legislation's scrutiny.
But Republican Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald said Sunday night that the "budget repair" bill can not be amended at this point.
The bill would secure crofting for generations to come , according to Conservative rural affairs spokesman John Scott.
One afternoon, I watched Robbins teach Scott a routine in which he had to ask a spectator to sign a twenty-dollar bill, fold it, wrap it in a handkerchief, and put it in his pocket.
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