Bradley Whitford, Gabrielle Carteris Rally With Unions in Wisconsin (Who?)

Hollywood Reporter ^ | 2/26/11 | Jonathan Handel

[Libloather]

Bradley Whitford, Gabrielle Carteris Rally With Unions in Wisconsin
by Jonathan Handel
3:08 PM 2/26/2011

As a pitched battle in Wisconsin continues to escalate, SAG and AFTRA members are on scene at the state capitol building in Madison, helping fight efforts by the state’s Republican governor to limit public employee wages, require employees to pay more for pension and health benefits and, perhaps most controversially, constrict the scope of collective bargaining and force public unions to hold yearly votes on whether they should remain in existence.

The acting contingent includes Emmy and SAG Award winner Bradley Whitford (The West Wing), SAG and AFTRA National Board member Gabrielle Carteris (The Event, Beverly Hills, 90210), AFTRA National Board member Robert Newman (Guiding Light) and local union members.

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SAG, AFTRA and the WGA East have all issued statements on the matter in the last few days. Calling Wisconsin “ground zero for the labor movement,” SAG said in a statement that “all workers have a fundamental right to join unions and to engage in collective bargaining.”

AFTRA president Roberta Reardon remarked “Stripping Americans of the rights to collectively bargain and to freely join a union is not . . . the way to fix a broken budget.”

[Libloather]

Bradley Whitford (The West Wing)

Oh! Well, that would make him an expert then! BUT - he also was in Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise. Oh! Well, that would make him an expert then!

[Cheapskate]

The Charteris girl was in Bevertly hills 90210 and is a gun grabber

[cripplecreek]

Yeah they bring some real credibility.

[skr]

Any PR is good PR.

[demkicker]

The dim-wits aren’t coming back and this schtick is getting old. Get on with passing out the pink slips to the pink-o’s.

[cripplecreek]

Obama needs to ask Michelle if he can have his man panties so he can go to Wisconsin and stand with the parasites.

[Flatus I. Maximus]

Whew! The actors are here now! Everyone can relax. The situation is under control.

[Patrick1]

Well if they are bringing in fake unionists might as well bring in a fake President. Where be the Messiah?!

[digger48]

This guy? He always plays a snivelling A-hole. Maybe it's because he IS a snivelling A-hole in real life too!

[research99]

This is a job, for the Film Actors Guild!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbuVa6GEJUg

[kickonly88]

I thought maybe it was Brad Whitford, the rhythm guitarist for Aerosmith. Glad it wasn’t him.

[max americana]

When Dennis Miller had his TV show on cable, he had Whitford on...he makes Matt Damon look sane, believe me. His moonbattery and lefty loon level was extremely high.

[Infralutheran]

I think Bradley Whitford was best known for playing the Blueberry on the Fruit of the Loom commercials from 1972 thru 1984 but I may be wrong.

[ronnie raygun]

So what your saying is thier piling sh## on top of sh##

[JPG]

When are they going to bring in the heavyweights like Ed Asner, Rob Reiner and Barbra Streisand? They will make such plausible arguments in favor of the union thugs that I'm sure I'll change my opinion.

[pollwatcher]

Job protecting Teachers Union protesters are invoking "teabaggers." The unions should henceforth be known as: "RUBBER ROOMERS"

[Doob]

That was my first thought too. Glad it was that sniveling POS not one of my guitar heroes.