During his earlier tenure in the Senate, Cullen was the Senate Majority Leader in , and On September 6, , Cullen announced that he would not seek re-election in the elections. He also served on the Janesville City Council from to Cullen served in the U. Army Reserve. Cullen and the 13 other Democratic senators participated in a legislative walkout on February 17, , in opposition to Assembly Bill 11 - a Republican-sponsored bill aimed at limiting collective bargaining rights, compensation and fringe benefits of public employees.
Reports confirmed the senators fled to a hotel in Rockford, Illinois. Scott Walker , saying, "The governor has the tools at his disposal to put this issue to an end.
As soon as he is willing to take a compromise, we will go back to work in an instant. Republicans passed a unanimous resolution on March 3 finding the missing legislators in contempt and threatening them with arrest. It gave them until 4 p.
The constitutionality of that resolution was unclear, however, as the Wisconsin Constitution only allows for the arrest of legislators while in session if they are suspected of committing a felony, treason, or breach of the peace.
Jim Palmer, executive director of the Wisconsin Professional Police Association, said the resolution was an "unreasonable abuse of police power. Jon Erpenbach provided the Democratic response, stating, "All 14 of us remain in Illinois, very strong in our convictions. Issuing arrest warrants at 4 p. This is a debate about protection of the middle class in Wisconsin; that is what the Republicans should be focusing on. Erpenbach found a way around this by granting power of attorney to two of his aides, giving them power to, among other things, pick up his paycheck.
On March 7, Democratic leader Sen. Mark Miller sent a letter to the governor and Senate majority leader asking for a meeting near the Wisconsin-Illinois border to restart talks on the collective bargaining issue.
Walker responded at a press conference, calling the letter "ridiculous," and saying that several meetings between the two sides have taken place, but that Miller has stood in the way of a compromise. Chris Larson said, "Dems will return when collective bargaining is off the table. That could be soon based on the growing public opposition to the bill and the recall efforts against Republicans. The exchange discusses possible compromises on the bill, including allowing unions to bargain for wages beyond inflation rates, permitting collective-bargaining on certain economic issues, allowing public workers to collectively bargain workplace safety issues, and limiting collective bargaining agreements to 2 years or less.
On March 9, the Wisconsin State Senate approved Act 10, which included changes to the collective bargaining rights of public-sector workers. Republicans passed the bill by a vote of , with Sen. Dale Schultz R voting against it. Democrats, who had absented themselves in order to prevent the Senate from meeting its member quorum, were not present to vote on the legislation. On May 26, , Dane County Court Judge Maryann Sumi issued a stay against the law on the grounds that the legislative process had violated the state's open meetings law.
In the wake of events surrounding the bill, both Democratic and Republican senators were targeted by active recall campaigns.
Recall sponsors filed signatures on petitions targeting six Republican state senators and three Democratic state senators. Challenges were filed in all nine of those campaigns, and the Wisconsin Government Accountability Board approved the six campaigns against Republicans at meetings on May 23 and May 31, and approved the three campaigns against Democrats on June 8.
Democrats held onto the 30th District seat on July Republicans lost two seats in the August 9 recalls, but held onto four. Two incumbent Democrats successfully retained their seats on August On July 24, , one week after Democrats gained the majority in the state Senate , Cullen quit the Democratic caucus after newly named Majority Leader Mark Miller did not give him chairmanship on a committee with clout.
Cullen, who had been offered chair of the Committee on Small Business Development and Tourism called it "an insult to my district" and said he might leave the party altogether to become an independent.
Cullen said the move was "intended to send me a message that I am not welcome and that he can treat me however he wants to and that somehow I am supposed to take it.
Three days later Cullen rejoined the caucus, receiving the chairmanship of two new committees and a leadership position on two others. At a news conference he stated, "I thank Sen. Miller for sticking with this and resolving it. I'm very pleased with these committee assignments. They fit with all the big issues I'm up here to work on. Cullen ran for Wisconsin Governor in the recall election against incumbent Gov. Scott Walker. Cullen said of his candidacy, "I think I would be a very serious opponent for Gov.
Walker to have to face, because of my record, my career, my view of how government how to operate sic around here. However, on February 1, , Cullen said he was withdrawing from the race, citing fundraising issues and the negative nature of the recall. Cullen was unopposed in the primary election on September 14, He defeated his opponent in the November 2 general election, Republican Rick Richard.
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Tim and Lindy were still together as this was written more than 50 years later. As a junior Cullen averaged 10 points a game as a starting guard for the basketball team.
The next afternoon Cullen was back at USF — this time with the baseball team for a game against the Dons. In Cullen, along with Fazio and Boccabella, played for the Saskatoon Commodores, champion of the Western Canada League; all three were named to the league all-star team. In his senior year Cullen stopped playing basketball. My dad was kind of my agent, and we just set up shop at home in Burlingame.
Boston was the only team that would agree to that. I just wanted to start at Triple-A, anywhere. His former summer-league teammate Jim Lonborg who had been a college opponent at Stanford was also with the Rainiers, and they roomed together at a downtown hotel. After the season Cullen married Lindy in Seattle, on September 19, with Lonborg as one of the groomsmen. Cullen was the everyday shortstop at Hawaii in , and when he returned there the next year his batting average perked up to.
The call to the big leagues came in August , and Cullen made his debut with the Senators on August 8, striking out as a pinch-hitter against Detroit veteran Johnny Podres.
Then on September 4, he made his first appearance at second base, a position he had never played in high school, college, or the minors. He got a pinch-hit two-run single to give the Senators a win over the White Sox. He started 64 games there, plus 34 at second base and 12 at third, and batted.
Hansen was expendable because the White Sox had just acquired Luis Aparicio to play shortstop, and Cullen was expected to take over at second. Cullen was excited about the prospect of going to a team that had been in the pennant race until the final days of the season. We lost the first ten games and Stanky got fired just before the All-Star break. Cullen made history of a sort on May 26, , when he started at second base and batted ninth in a game at Yankee Stadium.
Stanky put pitcher Gary Peters in the sixth spot in the lineup in an effort to shake up the White Sox offense. The White Sox wound up trading Cullen back to Washington on August 2 — for Hansen, neither player having had a very good season with his new team Cullen was batting. How are you going to pitch this guy, and that guy, and Frank Howard.
Cullen got three hits that night and Hansen two. Cullen played at least games for the Senators each season from through , despite never having a batting average higher than. But he did a fine job in the field and in he led American League second basemen with a. His fielding percentage was just two-tenths of a point below the then-major-league season record for second basemen, set by Jerry Adair in the mark has been topped many times since. He was released on March 1, with the Rangers at spring training in Florida.
Then when she got there, she went to the ballpark and they told her I was in the hospital with pneumonia. Playing in the minors for the first time in six years, Cullen played shortstop and hit.
The call went to Cullen, who learned he was heading back to the big leagues with the Oaks on a road trip. Finley called to ask how I was.
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