Two-thirds of a national survey respondents disapprove of the decision by 14 Wisconsin state senate Democrats to flee the state and thereby deny the Republican majority in the body the quorum required to act on Gov. Scott Walker's budget proposals.

Reporting from Rockford, Ill. —
A Rockford, Ill., resort took on a circus-like air as runaway Wisconsin legislators, who fled to prevent a vote on an anti-union bill, milled about the lobby, a news chopper hovered overhead and a TV reporter chased after a leprechaun.

(CNN) -- Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker on Monday dismissed as "ridiculous" a letter from a Democratic state Senate leader who suggested a meeting "near the Wisconsin-Illinois border" to discuss the state's budget impasse.