Posted on 02/18/2011 11:07:04 AM PST by milwguy
With all eyes on the State Capitol, a national labor leader is coming to Madison on Friday to lend support to the thousands of protesters rallying against Gov. Scott Walker's budget plan.
Walker will be getting his share of support on Saturday, with hundreds, if not thousands, of conservatives expected to converge on the Capitol for a Tea Party rally.
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka will address the protesters at noon Friday, according to an e-mail from the Wisconsin AFL-CIO.
Trumka also plans to "march in solidarity with Wisconsin workers and help prepare and deliver food to the crowds," the e-mail said.
The AFL-CIO is the largest labor organization in the country, comprised of 57 unions representing 12.2 million members, according to its website.
On the other side of the political coin, conservative group American Majority announced it is staging a rally from noon to 3 p.m. Saturday at the south entrance to the State Capitol.
State director Matt Batzel said in a news release that "It's time for the voices of the Wisconsin people to be heard."
"As the week has progressed, Wisconsin and the nation have watched schools across Wisconsin close, due to teachers participating in a 'sick out,' the union busing people in from other states to inflate their rally numbers in Madison, and legislators fleeing the state to avoid the vote on the budget repair bill," Batzel said.
(Excerpt) Read more at lacrossetribune.com ...
FYI, the union thugs who have occupied the Capital area all week have left trash EVERYWHERE, painted graffiti on buildings, and have no respect for civil society,.
The MSM will have a tough time showing the Tea Party as racist and unpatriotic next to the union thugs, but that doesn’t mean they won’t try.
RE: “I can tell you there are some nervous people in Wisconsin today. POTUS Obama has fueled the flames by backing the union thuggocracy. If there is violence tomorrow as the two sides protest at the Capital building, it is on Obama and the unions.
FYI, the union thugs who have occupied the Capital area all week have left trash EVERYWHERE, painted graffiti on buildings, and have no respect for civil society,.”
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Keep your camera phone handy — get lots of great photos —
Yes, if violence breaks out between the two ‘sides’ it WILL be ‘on Obama and the unions.’
No surprise at all that there is trash everywhere and graffiti — no, the thugs out there have NO respect at all.
Wish I could join in tomorrow but I’m thousands of miles away.
GOP might not need Democrats to pass controversial legislation
http://www.wisconsinreporter.com/gop-might-not-need-democrats-to-pass-controversial-legislation
Rally in Madison, WI
Wisconsin's elected officials are working to keep their promises to cut spending and those addicted to the government's money are protesting it. Tomorrow the Tea Party groups in Wisconsin will have a rally in Madison at the State Capital at 12:00 noon.
If you can drive to Madison, WI by or on Saturday morning, the tea party groups are asking you to do so.
Again, the rally is at noon at the State Capital tomorrow Saturday, February 18, 2011.
Hat tip: It is our understanding American Majority and Americans for Prosperity are also helping with this effort.
Watch for additional updates as we have a team of local coordinators working on this from WI and around the country.
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ROVE: DNC MAY BE ENCOURAGING LAWBREAKING PROTESTS (Fox News)
Be Careful.....Be VERY Careful!!
Who is nervous? I live in WI so does my grown daughter/son in law we’re not nervous were mad they are holding our state hostage. We trust Gov. Walker will have things under control one of my daughter’s employee’s is in the National Guard they’re ready.
send that pic to Drudge! he will have it headlining his site just like he did with the soldiers in Iraq with their John Kerry sign. It is just the type of stuff he loves to put on his site.
why doesn’t 1 Repub senator switch parties, then vote ?
I believe we are approaching the flashpoint of a new and very serious revolution.
TEA Party members are patriotic real Americans rooted in the values of our God-inspired Founding Fathers. Unions and their members are from the anti-God, anti-American, anti-business internationalist Marxist strain. Like their Communist forebears, the rallying cry of the mob in labor unions is "Workers of the World Unite".
To make the point succinctly, along with the scourge of multiculturalism, unions are just undeniably evil.
And when the union riots are over, just take a look at the trash, filth and debris they leave in their wake. In contrast, TEA Party members are well-known for leaving an area cleaner than before they arrived.
Unless that magically mde him 2 people, there still wouldn’t be 20 senators - which is the requirement for quoracy.
+1
Great post.
Taxpayers are fed up. The public is tired of these greedy and lazy union thugs. Hang tough Gov. Walker.
bump!
oh, I get it. i misread another article.
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