Posted on 02/21/2011 7:28:26 AM PST by dennisw
Union leaders urged Wisconsin teachers to return to work at schools that are open on Monday, but large protests were expected to continue at the Capitol against a plan to cut collective bargaining rights and benefits to state workers.
“We’ll be here Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday — as long as it takes,” Gary Lonzo, a union organizer and former Wisconsin corrections officer, said Sunday as he watched protesters banging drums and waving signs here for a sixth day in a row. “We’re not going anywhere.”
As the protests went on through falling sleet and snow, some lawmakers suggested that a compromise might yet be possible over the cuts that Gov. Scott Walker, a Republican, has proposed. A spokesman for Dale Schultz, a moderate Republican senator, said that Mr. Schultz supported Mr. Walker, particularly in his assessment that the state budget situation was dire, but that Mr. Schultz also hoped to work to preserve collective bargaining rights.
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Opponents of a plan to cut collective bargaining rights and benefits for state workers demonstrated in the rotunda of the Capitol in Madison, Wis., on Sunday.
Will they be evicted by the police this week? So the legislature can function this week? Will the National Guard be called in to evict them because the police are stmpathetic union members?
Who pays for people like this to live, eat, and sleep?
Since they only need 17 for a non-spending quorum they need to first vote on a bill to ban public employee unions.
That might get some attention.
Arrest these professional commie agitators for trespassing on state property. What clowns...what losers. These fools are going DOWN!
I hear its starting to smell like hippies in the Capitol building.
How long do you think they would let TEA Party members occupy a government building??
I don’t care if they demonstrate outside. But they are occupying Capitol buildings and looking to be dragged out in an SDS style confrontation
You have loads of radicals there looking for tear gas and a rough removal by police or National Guard
Taxpayers...
Stupidity on parade.
They do not understand the example of Greece and are duplicating the insane protests of the abject failures there.
“Obama, come to Madison”. LOL
Perhaps the Republican senators should reconsider exempting firefighters and cops from the pending legislation.
Based on the signs there, it appears many are from out of state.
Walker may have to call in the WI National Guard to restore order.
I want our elected legislature to come to work Tuesday and start passing the non-fiscal bills they were elected to pass.
Strip the bargain power issue out of the budget bill and pass it as a separate bill not requiring the quorum.
Get it done!
I doubt if the police, campus, local or state will do anything as they are also union thugs. The National Guard on the other hand is made up mostly of working people, many of whom have real experience in dealing with thugs around the world. I say,"Turn them loose."
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If they were Tea Partiers or Conservatives, it would be a horse of a different color.... They would not have been allowed to get that far in the first place.
No one gets exempted, period. If they continue to occupy the legislature, they are in rebellion IMO. Call the NG to put them out.
Stimulus, anyone?
At what point can they be considered trespassers and arrested? Also they obviously want a confrontation with cameras rolling so could they be sealed in and food and water cut off until they give up? Don;t know what the best strategy is, but the Governor can’t ignore them endlessly where we have a protest community endlessly staffed with rotating agitators brought in by the unions.
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