Posted on 02/26/2011 12:34:44 PM PST by Palmetto Patriot
The debate over public workers' unions took over the old state Capitol building in downtown Raleigh Saturday afternoon.
A few hundred people joined a rally organized by the State Employees Association of North Carolina and MoveOn.org to support state employees in Wisconsin who would lose collective bargaining rights under a budget-cutting plan.
They carried signs with slogans like "Unions make us strong" and "Fund pensions, not wars."
Between 100 and 150 people belonging to various conservative groups held a counter-protest across the street.
They held signs declaring "SEIU/SEANC, your gravy train is out of steam," "Rein in public sector unions" and "Obama presents the great depression part 2 in cities near you."
NC Tea Party Revolution, NC Freedom, Tea Party Nation and Moccasin Creek Minutemen were among the groups participating in the counter-protest.
(Excerpt) Read more at wral.com ...
“Fund pensions, not wars”
LOL what selfishness It’s all about ME ME ME ME ME
A few hundred? Using CBS math, probably; which means two or three dozen. Yard sales have bigger crowds...
I want a pony!!!!
Unions make us poor. Example business cards 500 for $10 or union bug 500 for $40.
Two pics at the source link...sure is easy to tell which side is union/marxist/communist and which side is Tea Party Americans.
Reuter’s? Do you have a more credible source? I’m sure these are inflated numbers. :-)
“Fund pensions, not wars.”
If I had any respect for unions it was lost right there......
Protests at Georgia Capitol react to labor debate elsewhere
That's got to be disappointing for the Communists.
Thanks for that update. It’s so heartening to see the Tea Parties in residence at these rallies . . . helping to get the truth out about public workers’ unions.
Ironically, I don’t think the Tea Parties knew what their next step should be, but have accidentally found it thanks to the squalling of the public sector unions. We should all be grateful to the 14 Democrats who walked out of the WI state Senate. Without them dragging the process out, the scam of money laundering union dues into Democrat coffers would never have come to the spotlight.
According to The State, the local paper in Columbia, SC, about 125 MoveOn protestors were met by a couple dozen Tea Party members:
S.C. protesters stand with Wisconsin
Note the slant that the headline gives to the story, and the fact that no pictures were included.
Must have looked pathetic.
Oops! The story was just updated to include a picture.
Gee Whiz!!!! Thought I’d be reading about millions of labor union goons hugging and kissing with all the hate America “Obama” communists & socialists that Move On. org. was gonna whack the American landscape with gigantic protests all day today and tomorrow!!! Have not heard a word about it, other then a dribble here and there. Maybe the union goons and criminals don’t want to spend the cash they know is about to dry up and keep tightly in their own greedy pockets. Anyone out there that can enlighten an old man who loves America more then any labor union!!!
That’s like the Reuter’s article I linked above - their headline read: Labor protests draw thousands across United States
At first glance, it appears to mean thousands at each location, when it means thousands “collectively” across the U. S.
What is it the kids say these days, “epic fail”?
Supporters, opponents of unionized government workers rally at Capitol
"Organizers for MoveOn.org, a group still in its infancy, drew approximately 400 people..."
"Meanwhile, approximately 150 counter-demonstrators who favor the anti-union movements held their own rally across 10th Street on Capital Mall. That crowd, calling itself Tea Party United, was made up of Tea Party and Republican Party members, primarily from the Sacramento region."
I would expect Nashville to have a couple. Collective Bargaining for the TEA (yea, I know), is soon to be wiped out. Of course it is much smoother here as we are a “RTW” state.
A local TV station reports only 100 union protesters and 100 Tea Party members at the rally.
A Union thug was cited for battery on a Tea Party leader by local police.
On the local news tonight (Milwaukee) the best that the reporters on the scene would say about the crowd in Madison was that it was larger than it has been the past couple of days (when it was down to hundreds). The newspapers are claiming larger than 70,000.
Also, the news mentioned the “star power” present at the pro-union Madison rally. It was none other than Bradley Whitford. Pretty big name, right? (He is a hometown boy.)
Which brings this thought - where ARE the big Hollywood names in this?
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