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Unions get rowdy during Joe the Plumber Pittsburgh rally
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review ^ | Mike Wereschagin

Posted on 03/31/2009 2:49:25 PM PDT by Salena Zito

Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher — better known as Joe the Plumber — headlined a raucous rally against pro-union legislation Monday night where critics and supporters of the Employee Free Choice Act jeered one another.

Two Green Tree police officers broke up several arguments to prevent fights in the midst of a crowd of about 150 packed inside a Radisson ballroom. The crowd was divided

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TOPICS: Front Page News; Politics/Elections; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: 111th; 2010; acorn; aflcio; cardcheck; democrats; efca; intimidation; itsaburghthing; joetheplumber; obama; pennsylvania; pittsbugh; porkulus; specter; teaparties; teaparty; toomey; unions; wurzelbacher; zito
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1 posted on 03/31/2009 2:49:25 PM PDT by Salena Zito
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To: Salena Zito

He’s lucky one of the Union thugs didn’t hold a hat over Joe’s head and the Union crooks beat Joe to a pulp. I hear that is the way it is legally done in Pennsylvania.


2 posted on 03/31/2009 2:52:14 PM PDT by vetvetdoug
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3 posted on 03/31/2009 2:53:20 PM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: Salena Zito

If the union thugs can act this bad at a public rally, imagine how bad they’d get when the corner employees in the restrooms.

Been there.
Seen it.
Not pretty.


4 posted on 03/31/2009 2:54:10 PM PDT by SJSAMPLE
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To: martin_fierro
Backward hat dude probably pleasured himself later for making the little girl cry - his only means of being able to be gratified.
5 posted on 03/31/2009 2:58:40 PM PDT by Corporate Law (<>< - Xavier Basketball: Perennial Slayers of #1 Ranked Teams)
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To: Salena Zito

One day... the 5.56 solution.

LLS


6 posted on 03/31/2009 3:00:39 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer (hussein will NEVER be my President... NEVER!!!)
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To: martin_fierro

That photo, to this day, brings burning rage right to the surface. Go for the eyes, daddy, squishy and soft.


7 posted on 03/31/2009 3:05:39 PM PDT by monkeybrau
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To: Salena Zito

The union toughs in the ‘Burgh are some big, mean, thuggish guys. They like to strut around with those t-shirts that have a logo of a revolver and the words “SCAB KILLER” and other such threatening stuff.


8 posted on 03/31/2009 3:06:44 PM PDT by Pallas
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To: Salena Zito

May I suggest that unions become liable for any actions of their members that cause damages? Sort of a modification of the joint and several liability doctrine that has been used against companies that had nothing to do with the damages from a product.

Apparently not the law now, it has been overdue for decades.


9 posted on 03/31/2009 3:08:03 PM PDT by texmexis best (uency)
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To: Salena Zito

dang in my backyard..lol


10 posted on 03/31/2009 3:12:52 PM PDT by angelcindy ("If you follow the crowd,you get no further than the crowd")
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To: angelcindy
The union thugs just did the same thing today disrupting a gathering on the steps of the PA State capitol in Harrisburg. Joe the Plumber was speaking.

Here are Joe's words:
"Let me start off right now by saying I'm not against unions. Not at all. Unions have made America strong, no doubt. I have a brother and other family members who are union members and they tell me ... they want to go work their 40 hours and go home without coercion or intimidation,"

With their actions they are doing the same thing as they do at work. Intimidate.

11 posted on 03/31/2009 3:24:08 PM PDT by AGreatPer (Obama is not my president until we see his birth certificate. A real one.)
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To: monkeybrau

What is the story behind that photo?


12 posted on 03/31/2009 3:36:46 PM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: All

Audrea steps up the the plate again.

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The rest is over at brain-jockey!

13 posted on 03/31/2009 3:48:45 PM PDT by WakeUpAndVote (Fump!)
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To: WakeUpAndVote

That’s Audrie, sorry about that!


14 posted on 03/31/2009 3:49:48 PM PDT by WakeUpAndVote (Fump!)
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To: SJSAMPLE
Union thugs aren't immortal. They are equally vulnerable to the very threats they perpetrate against their victims. The consequences can be equally not pretty.
15 posted on 03/31/2009 3:54:09 PM PDT by Myrddin
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To: Myrddin

“They are equally vulnerable to the very threats they perpetrate against their victims”

Their victims aren’t afforded the same legal protection our government extends to them.


16 posted on 03/31/2009 4:05:47 PM PDT by Tublecane
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To: Corporate Law

I have seen that picture before, but this is the first time I noticed a boy that looks like her brother making a fist and looking like he wishes he could smack that grin off backwards hat guys face.


17 posted on 03/31/2009 4:12:55 PM PDT by sportutegrl (If liberals could do math, they would be conservatives.)
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To: sportutegrl

I did not notice that either. Good pointing it out.


18 posted on 03/31/2009 4:19:07 PM PDT by Corporate Law (<>< - Xavier Basketball: Perennial Slayers of #1 Ranked Teams)
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To: ViLaLuz

Bush/Cheney rally during the 2004 campaign.
Little girl on dad’s shoulders had a B/C sign, and the scumbag to the right grapped the sign and ripped it in half.
Then he stood there, taunting the girl.

The crowd was closing in on him for the kill, so he ran away.
They released his name in the press a few days later.


19 posted on 03/31/2009 4:55:37 PM PDT by SJSAMPLE
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To: ViLaLuz

Here’s an AP cite:

Three-year-old Sophia Parlock cries while seated on the shoulders of her father after having her Bush-Cheney sign torn up by Kerry-Edwards supporters on Thursday, Sept. 16, 2004, at the Tri-State Airport in Democratic vice presidential candidate John Edwards made a brief stop at the airport as he concluded his two-day bus tour to locations in West Virginia and Ohio.

And, the union apology:

The International Union of Painters and Allied Trades believes in the fundamental right for civil discourse, freedom of speech and activism to support our candidates and issues.

What happened in Huntington, West Virginia yesterday is an affront to everything we, as a union, pride ourselves to represent. We extend our apologies to the Parlock family, especially Sophia, for the distress one of our overzealous members caused them.

I have personally taken steps to address this issue internally, and will take immediate disciplinary action to the full extent allowed under U.S. Department of Labor regulations and the constitution of the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades.

It is my hope that this incident reminds all of our members that every last citizen in this country has the right to express his or herself freely. Not one single one of us has the right to tell them otherwise.

General President James A. Williams
The International Union of Painters and Allied Trades


20 posted on 03/31/2009 5:04:51 PM PDT by SJSAMPLE
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