Posted on 02/28/2011 8:34:25 AM PST by milwguy
The Capitol is shut down to visitors from the public Monday morning, with only staff and media being allowed inside.
The state Department of Administration tightened rules on access to the statehouse Monday morning after deciding the night before not to force out hundreds of demonstrators who were camped out in the rotunda.
"We are going to let people in in a measured way but we have to get this building cleaned up," Administration Secretary Mike Huebsch said.
On Tuesday, Gov. Scott Walker will deliver his budget address in the state Capitol's Assembly chambers to a joint session of the Legislature.
Protesters lined up outside the King Street entrance to the Capitol this morning, waiting to be let in.
Inside that entrance at 9 a.m., Capitol Police were cordoning off areas and setting up tables similar to an airport security checkpoint to screen those entering the statehouse once the doors open. At least most of the Capitol elevators had also been shut down on Monday morning - no reason for that was clear.
Just beyond the security area, a handful of the protesters who had spent the night in the building were singing, "Whose side are you on?"
State Department of Administration executive assistant Jodi Jensen released a statement Monday saying that no one from the public would be allowed into the building until all the protesters from Sunday night leave.
"No additional protestors will be allowed into the building until this situation is resolved. Once it is, law enforcement will continue to implement the procedures that were announced this morning. Under those procedures, protestors will be allowed into the building, but crowd size will be adjusted to accommodate the cleaning crews, the preparation for the Tuesday’s joint legislative session and the number of protestors who remained in the building overnight," Jensen said.
When will Governor Walker start the layoffs he's been promising? Is it still tomorrow (Tuesday)?
The place was down to 12 unemployed "make shift drummers". I think that says it all!
So you want to beat up those guys? Be my guest, but you're going to get decontaminated as well just for touching them!
And your clothes will be burned.
Hobos, winos, junkies, dysfunctual street people, the chronically unemployed. The unions hire these people from temporary labor agencies, ACORN, Working Families Party (Soros funded), to fill out their ranks at protests. I used to work for temporary agencies on weekends when I needed extra money. I think I recognized some of my old colleagues in news footage.
Turned out I was one of the witnesses who identified his presence there.
Everyone, and I mean everyone, should know about this little news item. It puts the actions of Tubbs in good perspective. Like father, like sons; no respect for law and order.
I didn’t say beat ‘em up: I said pull the fire alarm, and evacuate the statehouse. Then, if they want to remain outside, make em get a permit, etc. No beatings required...
I hope they let someone with a camera in...like the guy from FOX.
I hope they let someone with a camera in...like the guy from FOX.
So the 200 overnight squatters, minus 12 singing holdouts, willingly left the Capitol this morning? That seems odd, unless internal polling showed WI citizens are overwhelmingly sick of them.
With Obama they be po no mo.
OBAMA LIES. obama will tell you that the knife in your chest, the rope around your neck, the bullet in your head does not hurt. This socialist/marxist/fascist/revolutionary/muslim sympathizer faux president LIES. That's what leftists do. They will tell you day is night, and night is day, in the hopes that some fool will believe them. They must be taken down.
Post of the day!
Obama promised to invest in infrastructure with the two stimulus bill and what did get???... nothing but more debt.
WW re: politicians, political suicide
He’ kidding right? It’s reasonable to expect it, not reasonable to think they have the couage. Of course they have to commit pol suicide, it’s not about them. If there’s no money, there’s no money.
Who cuts defense in two wars with the ME ummah forming and more ME players wanting nukes?
Since the enemy lives on the hill, it’s a moot point.
He’s hitting the point. The Reds hijacked churches with social justice. Wordplay. Charity isn’t forced.
Churches always helped the sick and needy.
If people knew the skinny on banks making it hard as hell to loan to churches, it would be scandal.
The problem lies in ‘church members not tithing, volunteering and becoming of the world instead of in it. It will be interesting as well, to see what happens in DC re: vouchers and the teacher chops to come.
I know the church schools pay less but produce smarter kids for less.
>After a month nobody will care how many union thugs are in front of the capital.
By Wisconsin Law, after 30 days Walker can declare their seats vacant
They can’t stay out quite that long unless he allows it.
Can you please post the Wisconsin law that alows this? Do the runaway Senators meet the requirements of the law by being absence?
In some cases...themselves.
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