Posted on 03/10/2011 5:31:42 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
...."In 30 minutes, 18 state senators undid 50 years of civil rights in Wisconsin," Senate Minority Leader Mark Miller wrote in a statement. "In the dark of the night, 18 Senate Republicans conspired to take government away from the people. Now it's time for the people of Wisconsin to take back their government."
And outside the statehouse, our colleagues at Wisconsin Public Television told us there were very loud demonstrations.
"All levels of the Capitol and its central rotunda are solid demonstrators, shoulder to shoulder," Art Hackett, a recently retired reporter for WPT told his colleague, Frederica Freyberg, who relayed the information to the NewsHour.
"While earlier reports said demonstrators crashed through security, at this hour (9:20 p.m. Wisconsin time) the security checkpoints have been abandoned by police officers," Hackett said. "Police presence is noticeably absent in and around the Capitol. This is in stark contrast to earlier days when police were there in huge numbers. Cars outside are driving around the perimeter of the Capitol constantly honking their horns. It sounds and feels like V.J. day, but they're not celebrating."
The fallout will reverberate in the schools on Thursday as well.
WPT senior news producer Andy Moore told the NewsHour Wednesday night that high school students in Madison have organized a student walkout Thursday afternoon in conjunction with filmmaker and activist Michael Moore....
(Excerpt) Read more at pbs.org ...
You are doing the right thing. Do not let the Dems and unions stand in your way.
Onward and upward! Save Wisconsin and the USA!!!
Grant Blakely
Moore: He’ll fit right in with this crowd of leeches.
http://www.newrichmond-news.com/event/article/id/31915/
“Wisconsin labor unions are planning protest rallies throughout the state this morning after the Senate’s sudden vote last night to eliminate virtually all collective bargaining powers for most public employee unions.
An event called the “Madison Morning Rally” will begin at nine on a corner of the Capitol Square. The heads of the State AFL-CIO, the state’s largest teachers’ union and the state firefighters association are among those scheduled to speak.
Police and fire unions are exempt from the new bargaining restrictions. But the heads of the statewide police and fire associations say it’s wrong for other public workers to sacrifice while their members don’t have to.
Union organizers have called 9 a.m. rallies for a number of places in Wisconsin, including the district office of Senate GOP president Mike Ellis in Neenah. Other events are planned in Milwaukee, Racine, Green Bay, Eau Claire, River Falls, Juneau, Fond du Lac, Platteville, Oshkosh and La Crosse.
There’s also a rally planned in Richland Center, even though the senator from that community, Dale Schultz, voted against the bill last night. Schultz said bargaining assures labor peace, and the concept of compromise has fallen out of favor.”
Why are you calling for arrests of the rich from your mansion on Torch lake?
The back of the guy in the foregrownd looks like a Michael Moore wanabe. How much did the unions pay him for his days work and from what hole did they find him and his friends.
That is Michael Moore in the flesh -- at his earlier appearance in Madison.
Think of that every time you spend saturdays cutting grass on your five acres.
In the dark of night...with utmost deviancy...the Dems pushed through the most humongous spending legislation ever...Obamacare.
Ask me if i care about their feelings now. These ingrates cowered away like thieves in the night..to avoid a vote...to hide out in the most corrupt state in the union.
That always makes me laugh.
The two vital items should be requiring a re-certification every year, andelimination of withholding of union dues. Were they in the bill that was passed. Those two alone would put a major hurt on the Democrat-Union axis.
(OBTW...Thanks so much for all your hard work on the FR threads!!)
Even that can be limited by the Majority leader to a reasonable amount of time. Anyway, the debate is over 2 months old; there has been more than ample time to talk about the issue.
I hope you're using "think" in a very broad sense here. It's more like a protozoan's reaction when it encounters a fixed object.
I understand what you mean. Moore, however, presents it as the MI government dissolving it for them, instead of the towns doing it themselves. I haven’t seen anything (not surprising) to substantiate what he’s saying.
Think of that every time you spend saturdays cutting grass on your five acres.
Actually .67 acres, and I don’t live in suburbia, by choice, nor am I a proponent of the growth of government.
Suburban sprawl did more to promote the growth of government than anything else. It’s inefficiencies are now being reaped.
...and I’m not sure I quite agree with the above statement. It appears to me that years of bounty and plenty have led to the growth, and now when times are lean, the people are unable to shrink back to reasonable for the times.
But, Wisconsin better be careful. He might eat all their cheese.
His quest is to dissolve the schools as a board member and citizen. Those who fight and cry for all the services in town are the ones on public assistance and employees of the town and county. Throw in the realestate cabal too.
I think Jabba-the-Hut Moore was referring to the dissolving of Democrat power through their goonions. The local governments are just fine.
What civil rights? The right to compel citizens not employed by the government to subsidize labor unions? The very notion of a public employee union is antithetical to constitutional rights as we know them.
And let's make no mistake. This is not about Wisconsin's public employees. This is about the destruction of Big Labor. And it cannot happen soon enough.
I wish your Muttley icon could be blown up and displayed on every landing inside the capital rotunda.
I agree!
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