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Yelling and chanting, unions drown out Nutter budget talk (Philly)
Philadelphia Inquirer ^ | March 15, 2013 | Troy Graham, Miriam Hill and Bob Warner

Posted on 03/17/2013 10:54:20 AM PDT by Olog-hai

Hundreds of chanting, jeering municipal union members, armed with piercing black whistles, drowned out Mayor Nutter Thursday as he attempted to give his annual budget address on the floor of City Council.

Rather than forcibly evict the protesters—who are upset over a four-year stalemate in their contract negotiations with the city—Council President Darrell L. Clarke recessed the meeting as Nutter read his speech. Nutter later delivered his speech downstairs to a more friendly audience—about 30 applauding members of his own staff and 20 reporters.

It was the most chaotic Council meeting in more than 30 years, comparable only to the 1981 session that broke down in a fistfight between Council members John Street and Francis Rafferty as they argued over how to resolve a teachers’ strike.

Nutter said later in the day that he would have continued his delivery, inaudible in chambers, had Clarke not called a recess—but the mayor refused to publicly second-guess that decision. …

(Excerpt) Read more at articles.philly.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: brotherlylove; budget; darrelllclarke; francisrafferty; johnstreet; mayornutter; mikenutter; pennsylvania; philadelphia; philly; unions
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To: Olog-hai

If you were to ask the average American if communist agitators are alive and well, they would give you an empty stare. The reality is that they are here, and they have another name: union organizers.


21 posted on 03/17/2013 12:43:07 PM PDT by I want the USA back
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To: hosepipe

I wouldn’t use satanic tactics like that—and the only time they work for leftists and their allies is when a nation gets away from God (note Leviticus 26:16).

Prayer and fasting towards God is the right thing to do before even setting a course of action. Did anyone notice that we heard nothing about prayer and fasting out of CPAC this year?


22 posted on 03/17/2013 12:48:54 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: I want the USA back
That was their name even going back into the early 20th and late 19th centuries, too. Remember the Wobblies and their stated intent to “displace capitalists and take over the means of production”?
23 posted on 03/17/2013 12:51:31 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai
I wouldn’t use satanic tactics like that—and the only time they work for leftists and their allies is when a nation gets away from God (note Leviticus 26:16). Prayer and fasting towards God is the right thing to do before even setting a course of action. Did anyone notice that we heard nothing about prayer and fasting out of CPAC this year?
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Surely you jest.. the american people are generally corrupt..
Obama is just punishment(punishment!).. it is far too late for that..

Time is not for re-modeling the foundation IS GONE.. disintegrated.. weak.. dilapidated..
Buildings are time stamped.. time for a new one..

Are you afraid of the BLOOD it will take?..
Better to fear NOT making the hard choices..
Why there is still TIME to make them.. time is leaking out the bucket as we speak..

24 posted on 03/17/2013 1:11:10 PM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
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To: hosepipe

You might have noticed that I did not say we shouldn’t act, when necessary; if we are to be like our Founding Fathers, we ought not fear bloodshed at all, or doing what needs to be done to win—I’ve often quoted George Washington on here, where he says “it must be known that we are at all times ready for war”. But we do have to pray and fast before God, because we are not sinless to be sure; we do not need Him fighting against us. The very fact that leftists and Islamists rise up against us is due to our getting away from God.


25 posted on 03/17/2013 1:17:10 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: FlingWingFlyer

“These commie union losers are going to chant themselves right out of jobs. Someday soon, they will all be gone and this country will be “a better place”.”

That is what is happening with the municipal cuts here in NJ; it leaves a more affordable place with streets that look like something out of Mogadishu (stop signs obscured by brush, potholes that could eat a small child, etc.). They are spending their current revenues paying for the guys who retired 20 years ago that used to fix the streets and cut back the foliage...


26 posted on 03/17/2013 1:43:47 PM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic war against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: FlingWingFlyer
These commie union losers are going to chant themselves right out of jobs. Someday soon, they will all be gone and this country will be “a better place”.

The term "Twinks" is going to take on another meaning...

27 posted on 03/17/2013 1:45:09 PM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: Olog-hai

You might have noticed that I did not say we shouldn’t act, when necessary


I know...... I used you as a foil for making a statement..
I don’t believe in miracles... I rely on them..

If America is not punished by Obama.. for crimes too many to count..
God may have to apologize to Sodom... that will NOT happen..

75,000,000+ murdered babies cry out for justice..
America IS BEING punished.. rightfully so...
Stopping the punishment is a pipedream..


28 posted on 03/17/2013 1:46:44 PM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
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To: Joe 6-pack

“I have long hoped for a time when the left’s coalition of special interest groups (gays, feminists, greens, la razas, peaceniks, unionistas, academics etc.) became a coalition of competing interests. I have also long been disappointed that it hasn’t happened yet.”

It happened here in NJ, as teachers’ unions got 5% raises with property taxes capped at 2%; to balance the budget, thousands of cops and firemen and untenured teachers have lost their jobs over the last few years. Those jobs will never come back, either; the populations they “served” are fleeing the state (and we lost an electoral vote to prove it).


29 posted on 03/17/2013 1:46:44 PM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic war against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: kearnyirish2

“I have long hoped for a time when the left’s coalition of special interest groups (gays, feminists, greens, la razas, peaceniks, unionistas, academics etc.) became a coalition of competing interests. I have also long been disappointed that it hasn’t happened yet.”


That will NOT happen until SOMEONE makes it happen..
They could easily be divided and conquered...
It just takes the will to DO IT!..

Republicans are too lazy and optimistic.. because they are lazy..
It would take a Cabal of EX-republicans to do it..


30 posted on 03/17/2013 1:51:17 PM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
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To: kearnyirish2
"It happened here in NJ, as teachers’ unions got 5% raises with property taxes capped at 2%; to balance the budget, thousands of cops and firemen and untenured teachers have lost their jobs over the last few years."

Yes, but have they started blaming each other yet? I'm guessing in their minds it's still somehow "Bush's fault."

31 posted on 03/17/2013 1:53:14 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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To: Chode; NativeSon
Nutter could not be more appropriately named...

Bugger perhaps.

32 posted on 03/17/2013 2:22:48 PM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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To: Olog-hai

How delightful - a ‘rat disrupted by his own supporters....


33 posted on 03/17/2013 4:35:04 PM PDT by Intolerant in NJ
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To: Fightin Whitey
or Nutter-Bugger...
34 posted on 03/17/2013 5:06:46 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: Chode

Oh we could keep going on that one I think...

heh heh heh....


35 posted on 03/17/2013 5:16:54 PM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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To: Fightin Whitey
8^)
36 posted on 03/17/2013 5:26:32 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: Joe 6-pack

“Yes, but have they started blaming each other yet? I’m guessing in their minds it’s still somehow “Bush’s fault.”

The infighting is becoming more public; cops and firemen think they are just as entitled to taxpayers’ incomes as teachers do, and those laid off will not be finding that kind of work again in NJ for a long time. They no longer blame Bush; they blame Obama (though they should be blaming state, county, and municipal politicians - this would have happened regardless of who was in the White House). NJ was a dying state when W was in office as well; it is a socialist toilet.


37 posted on 03/18/2013 5:13:43 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic war against white males (and therefore white families).)
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