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Largest crowd yet descends on Wisconsin Capitol
AP via Yahoo News ^ | 2/19/2011 | TODD RICHMOND and JASON SMATHERS

Posted on 02/19/2011 4:15:21 PM PST by GVnana

MADISON, Wis. – A state Capitol thrown into political chaos swelled for a fifth day with nearly 70,000 protesters, as supporters of Republican efforts to scrap the union rights of state workers challenged pro-labor protesters face-to-face for the first time and GOP leaders insisted again Saturday there was no room for compromise.

A few dozen police officers stood between supporters of Republican Gov. Scott Walker on the muddy east lawn of the Capitol and the much larger group of pro-labor demonstrators who surrounded them. The protest was peaceful as both sides exchanged chants of "Pass the bill! Pass the bill!" and "Kill the bill! Kill the bill!"


Tea Party supporters rally off a wing of the Wisconsin state capitol.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: corruption; democrats; fraud; liberalfascism; liberals; madison; union; unioncorruption; wisconsinshowdown
Doctors from numerous hospitals set up a station near the Capitol to provide notes covering public employees' absences. Family physician Lou Sanner, 59, of Madison, said he had given out hundreds of notes. Many of the people he spoke with seemed to be suffering from stress, he said.

"What employers have a right to know is if the patient was assessed by a duly licensed physician about time off of work," Sanner said. "Employers don't have a right to know the nature of that conversation or the nature of that illness. So it's as valid as every other work note that I've written for the last 30 years."

And under Obamacare, we'd still pay for these crooks.

1 posted on 02/19/2011 4:15:23 PM PST by GVnana
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To: GVnana

Sounds like there should be pink slips handed out at the rally, too.


2 posted on 02/19/2011 4:16:34 PM PST by madison10
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To: GVnana
"What employers have a right to know is if the patient was assessed by a duly licensed physician about time off of work," Sanner said. "Employers don't have a right to know the nature of that conversation or the nature of that illness. So it's as valid as every other work note that I've written for the last 30 years."

LOL! That ain't gonna work when the photographic evidence is presented.

Dummy!

3 posted on 02/19/2011 4:18:32 PM PST by Islander7 (There is no septic system so vile, so filthy, the left won't drink from to further their agenda)
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To: GVnana
...the much larger group of PAID pro-labor demonstrators who surrounded them.

There. Fixed it!

4 posted on 02/19/2011 4:18:55 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer ("Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican." - President Ronald W. Reagan)
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To: GVnana
It looks to me like Louie is just another freeloading "teacher".
5 posted on 02/19/2011 4:24:30 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer ("Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican." - President Ronald W. Reagan)
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To: GVnana

As a union member I’m fairly certain that if I had an excused absence from a doctor but was well enough to attend rallys my employer could question me as to why I was well enough to stand in the cold but not well enough to put in the 40 hour work week that I am contracted to them for.


6 posted on 02/19/2011 4:25:46 PM PST by linn37 ( "The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples money.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

NICE FIND!!! “Family practice” my patootie!


7 posted on 02/19/2011 4:28:49 PM PST by GVnana
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To: GVnana

My feelings exactly.


8 posted on 02/19/2011 4:31:12 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer ("Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican." - President Ronald W. Reagan)
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To: GVnana
Louis A. Sanner, MD

608-265-4668

777 S Mills St
Madison, WI 53715

Northeast Family Medical Center

3209 Dryden Drive

Madison, WI 53704

Please be sure to let the good doctor know how much fraud in the medical profession is appreciated.

9 posted on 02/19/2011 4:32:19 PM PST by Volunteer (Though I know that the hypnotized never lie, do ya? - The Who)
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To: GVnana

Let’s have a civil war and settle this for another 100 or so years ;)

Hell hath no fury like a ‘public servant’ forced to have a normal salary.


10 posted on 02/19/2011 4:35:00 PM PST by mewykwistmas ("If the Egyptians are hungry, let them eat ethanol")
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To: Volunteer

Doesn’t he have to be licensed by the State of Wi.
Don’t see why he couldn’t loose his license for fraud!


11 posted on 02/19/2011 4:51:50 PM PST by gc4nra (This tag line protected by Kimber and the First Amendment!)
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To: GVnana
So it's as valid as every other work note that I've written for the last 30 years.

Hmmm. Sounds to me like he's rationalizing intentionally giving a false diagnosis. I wonder if this could be grounds for medical malpractice.

12 posted on 02/19/2011 4:56:17 PM PST by raisetheroof ("To become Red is to become dead --- gradually." Alexander Solzhenitsyn)
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To: linn37
As a union member I’m fairly certain that if I had an excused absence from a doctor but was well enough to attend rallys my employer could question me as to why I was well enough to stand in the cold but not well enough to put in the 40 hour work week that I am contracted to them for.

As a business owner, I can assure you that I would fire their sorry ass and let them try to get their job back. Lawyers cost money. Plus, I don't EVER hire liberals. Interviews are important... If they don't believe in capitalism, they don't deserve a job in the private sector. I have no duty to hire liberals.

13 posted on 02/19/2011 4:57:55 PM PST by April Lexington (Study the Constitution so you know what they are taking away!)
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God Bless you!

As a business owner, I can assure you that I would fire their sorry ass and let them try to get their job back. Lawyers cost money. Plus, I don’t EVER hire liberals. Interviews are important... If they don’t believe in capitalism, they don’t deserve a job in the private sector. I have no duty to hire liberals.


14 posted on 02/19/2011 5:13:44 PM PST by SanFranDan
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To: GVnana

Unions for government workers puts the unions in charge of the government. It’s not at all a democratic republic form of government because public elections have no effect on the unions and doesn’t matter which party supposedly wins. The unions still run the show. And we all know who runs the unions. So thugocracy is an apt name for our form of government.


15 posted on 02/19/2011 5:14:54 PM PST by fella (.He that followeth after vain persons shall have poverty enough." Pv.28:19')
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as supporters of Republican efforts to scrap the union rights

Naw, no bias there. AP: Associated Propaganda.

16 posted on 02/19/2011 5:27:21 PM PST by glock rocks (I am Dyslexis of Borg. Your ass will be laminated.)
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Poll Results:
Results: Do you support Governor Walker's Budget Repair Bill?
Yes
60.68%
No
39.32%
Total Responses - 9658

17 posted on 02/19/2011 5:31:51 PM PST by Brown Deer (Pray for 0bama. Psalm 109:8)
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To: GVnana

IMHO, the majority of pro-union protested were bussed in or told to show up. It started whit 10 thousand and jumped to 70 in a few days. Sees suspicious.

It is time to get rid of public sector unions.


18 posted on 02/19/2011 5:34:43 PM PST by matt04
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To: GVnana

“Doctors from numerous hospitals set up a station near the Capitol to provide notes”

Without a peddler’s license at the location of the Capitol? What were the co-pays?


19 posted on 02/19/2011 6:46:36 PM PST by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto.)
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To: GVnana

Reality Check: Wisconsin Dems bring in 70k DNC Rent-a-Mob. Scott Walker won actual election with 1,128,941 VOTES


20 posted on 02/19/2011 6:59:58 PM PST by montag813 (http://www.facebook.com/StandWithArizona)
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