A first-hand look at Wisconsin lawmakers' life on the lam

WOODSTOCK, Ill. — Bob Jauch was here. The Democratic state senator from Poplar and the rest of the 14 senators who escaped from Wisconsin spent parts of several days last week in this charming northern Illinois town of 22,000 where the movie “Groundhog Day” was filmed. But why be so evasive? When asked what he’s afraid of, Jauch doesn’t flinch. “Those Tea Party folks are very harassing,” Jauch said, in an interview conducted under the agreement that the specific location wouldn’t be revealed. “They’re very intimidating. They’re in your face. They don’t care about anything that goes on in Wisconsin,...