Budget demonstrators spend night at Wash. Capitol

About 50 people protesting budget cuts under consideration by Washington state lawmakers woke up Thursday in a sprawl of sleeping bags on a hard marble floor after spending the night inside the state Capitol.

The Washington State Patrol asked demonstrators to leave but also told them officials would not arrest anyone who stayed overnight.

"The bottom line is that the people have not been heard on this issue," Will Pittz, executive director of Washington Can, one of the advocacy groups organizing the demonstration, said Wednesday night.