Wisconsin Sen. Robert Jauch (D-Poplar) (Photo courtesy Wis. Senate)

(CNSNews.com) - At least one of the Wisconsin Democratic senators on the lam in Illinois says he’s not getting help from anyone in paying for what has turned out to be a costly tour of northern Illinois.

Jeff Burandt, spokesman for Wisconsin Sen. Bob Jauch (D-Poplar), told CNSNews.com on Monday that his boss is “paying for it all himself.”

CNSNEWS.COM: “So he’s not getting help from any political action committee, from any union, from the DNC or the state Democratic Party -- from any individual?”

BURANDT: “Some individuals have offered to help, yes, but he’s told them he’s paying for it all himself.”

Jauch and 13 other senators left Wisconsin and have been on the run since Feb. 17 -- moving around from hotel to hotel throughout several towns in Northern Illinois and the far western Chicago suburbs – just across the Wisconsin state line.

Even sharing rooms, the jaunt has been expensive for the Wisconsin Democrat, whose district includes the North Woods of Northern Wisconsin.

For several nights, Jauch and the others stayed at the Clock Tower Inn and Resort in Rockford, Ill. Rooms at that hotel range from $99 a night for a room with two double beds ($89 on an Internet special) to $179.99 for a Suite with 1 King-size bed and a jetted tub.

Even Holiday Inns in that region, which Jauch and the others have stayed at, begin at $99 a night. The tab is in the thousands, and is still running.

The 14 Democrats fled the state to stall a vote on a bill that they say is union-busting, and have threatened to stay away until Republican Gov. Scott Walker agrees to compromise. But members of the Tea Party have been reportedly busy tracking down where the lawmakers are straying, forcing them to move from town to town, hotel to hotel.

Burandt told CNSNews.com that even though he touches base with his boss several times a day, communication with him can be “chaotic” because he’s on the move. But the senator is “caucusing” with other Democratic senators while on the lam – and is touching base with others in the state capital.

Last week the Wisconsin Senate Committee on Senate Organization voted to approve a measure that says that state senators who miss two or more days of a legislative session would no longer get paid through direct deposit. They would have to pick up their pay checks in person on the Senate floor during a session. The measure was approved on a 3 to 2 vote.

On Monday, meanwhile, Gov. Walker said that the absent senators would have 24 hours to return home and vote on the measure or the state will miss out on opportunity to refinance its debt.

Wisconsin State Treasurer Kurt Schuller told CNSNews.com that $165 millions in bonds which were due to be refinanced last Friday have to be refinanced by the end of Tuesday – and if that doesn’t happen, the state has to come up with the money.

“Apparently they did find some wiggle room, and the extension so we could give as much time as possible before it comes to the point of having to lay off public employees, since Gov. Walker has stated over and over again that lay-offs are the last thing he wants to do,” Schuller said.

The budget repair bill has a provision that will allow the state to refinance that portion of its existing debt and Walker has been working to keep the state from being forced to come up with the money all at once.