RACINE - After protesters picketed at Sen. Van Wanggaard's house in recent weeks, he is now looking into a bill to prohibit picketing at private residences.

"When they come to my house it's intimidating and threatening," said Wanggaard, R-Racine.

There are some local ordinances against certain picketing at private residences, he said. He would like to see it included in state statutes and is in the initial stages of drafting a proposal.

That is one of the items Wanggaard brought up when he met with The Journal Times editorial board Monday in Racine.

When people went to his house picketing he wasn't even there, he said.

He doesn't have a problem with them going to his office, he said, but when people picket in neighborhoods that is a different story.

People picketed at his house before his vote in support of Gov. Scott Walker's budget repair bill, but Wanggaard said if he hadn't voted for it, it would have affected jobs.

People would have gotten layoff notices, he said.

"These are dollars that translate into jobs," he said.