Firestorm over pledge creates fear of boycott of city (Madison WI)

Wisconsin State Journal ^ | Oct 11, 2001 | Doug Erickson and Scott Milfred

[RikaStrom]

Part of his e-mail to the bureau reads: "I don't want to offend the Madison School Board with the words 'In God We Trust' written on the $100,000-plus in cash that we usually spend at our annual conference."

Ouch, bet that hurts the bottom dollar for Madison.

I was wondering if anyone was going to use this as an example of the stupidity of their decision.

[petuniasevan]

I for one am glad to see the fallout.
My family will not spend one red cent in Madison until the School Board retracts their restrictions AND offers an apology to the people of Wisconsin for the embarrassment we have experienced.

[dts32041]

You have never been to Santa Cruz, CA, have you.

They had a simliar flap when they decided they didn't want a US Warship, to visit their fair town. <p. Turns out they lost a lot of money.

[Cold Heat]

Hot Damn! Who ever said that words didn't hurt! LOL

[Hillary's Folly]

BOYCOTT MADISON!!! I'm all for that.

[Salvation]

Meanwhile, a state legislator says she'll introduce a bill that would yank the district's state aid - more than $100 million - if it doesn't return to offering the pledge or at least the words to the national anthem.

Wondering if this legislator is a Republican??? Freepers??

Take the school distict's/board's money ---- they will change their tune.

"Either you are with us or you are for the terrorists." ~~George W. Bush

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks for this post!

When enough conservatives realize that our most important home front weapon against left wing extremist scum like these clymers in Madison, is the use of our $'s as weapons. We will hammer these clymers like their Talabad buddies are getting hammered.

I call it Maherizing the home grown enemies! Madison is more communistic that Cuba is and more anti America/American than the N. Koreans. It has been this way for decades!

In these home front battles, it is best that the locals in Madison and the State of Wisconsin hammer the school board, the city, the chamber of Commerce with a buycott.

Any company that has a meeting in that commie city should be boycotted nationally!

I hope that the good people of Wis. and Madison will hammer these Godless/Aclu America haters into the stone age with their $'s!

[InvisibleChurch]

The fallout surrounds the board's response to a new state law that requires schools to play the national anthem or allow students to recite the pledge daily

Why is there a law mandating this in the first place?

[GeorgiaSuzy]

All this liberal BS really makes me mad. I look at it this way: Our country is a democracy. Why doesn't the school board have the parents of the children who attend their school vote on whether they find the Pledge and the National Anthem offensive? I guarantee you a majority will not find it offensive, and want their children to recite the Pledge and hear the National Anthem. The majority should rule. The minority will just have to suck an egg; that's the way a democracy works.

[spoosman]

All Right!!! A story I can feel good about!!!

Hey. Madison commies -- SCREW YOU!

[Anonymous2]

i frequently use madison as a meeting point on road trips and we inevitably put several hundred dollars into their economy from hotels, gas, food, etc. not anymore, never again.

[bigbob]

And now everyone knows why the People's Republic of Madison as for years been known as "twenty square miles surrounded by reality"...

[denydenydeny]

"Here we have the national government telling all of its children what to do at one time," said Keys, who authored Monday's pledge motion. "It's an artificial recitation of words to create a sense of togetherness and conformity."

While they have no trouble forcing all of the children to go to public schools, or forcing the public to pay taxes for them.

They want the money, and the children, but without accountability.

[Don Myers]

bttt

[Mike Fieschko]

I thought Burlington Vermont was the only Communist city in the U.S., well now we have asswipes in Madison Wisconsin.

My folks were from Wisconsin, and there are still a lot of family out there.

Funny how it's the state which gave us Joe McCarthy, Bob LaFollette, Bill Proxmire and Socialist Party mayors of Milwaukee up until the 1960s.

[prov1813man]

does anyone have an email address for this Bill Keyes ?

[Hillary 666]

Lunchtime bump!!!

[Don Myers]

I just sent them an email.