Teachers, Firefighters, Cops Target M&I With Boycott (Union Goons Threaten Bank)

Journal Sentinel ^ | Thursday, March 10, 2011 | Patrick Marley

[kristinn]

Madison -- Teachers, firefighters and police officers said they would begin a boycott of M&I Bank if the bank does not begin publicly opposing Gov. Scott Walker's efforts to curtail collective bargaining for public workers.

Unions representing those groups said they would start other boycotts of businesses that backed Walker in his campaign.

The letter to M&I President Tom Ellis said the boycott would begin March 17 if the bank hasn't opposed Walker's efforts by then.

"In the event that you cannot support this effort to save collective bargaining, please be advised that the undersigned will publicly and formally boycott the goods and services provided by your company," the letter says. "However, if you join us, we will do everything in our power to publicly celebrate your partnership in the fight to preserve the right of public employees to be heard at the bargaining table."

The letter was sent by the heads of the Wisconsin Professional Police Association, the Professional Fire Fighters of Wisconsin, the International Association of Fire Fighters Local 311, Madison Teachers Inc., Green Bay Education Association, Dane County Deputy Sheriffs Assocation and the Madison Professional Police Officers Association.

SNIP

(Link to photo of union goons massed at bank branch's entrance)

[tacticalogic]

Who has actual experience of them doing SOMETHING.

I had one positive experience with a county deputy. About 2:30 AM I was on my way home from work (night shift), and out in the middle of a county road is this deputy trying to get about a dozen cows to go back through an open gate to their pasture. He wasn't having much luck. We got them all ran down the ditch to one side of the gate, I tied a tow strap to the gate and the bumper of the truck and positioned it to funnel them in, and then he ran them back toward the gate, and in they went.

He was a very nice man, and we had a very pleasant converstion afterward.

[Eldon Tyrell]

I know it is obvious to you - but he did what most any normal American would do - just as you did by helping.

I’m not trying to be a jerk - but notice - you are the only one to respond with ANYTHING. I got an earlier response - to the effect of “I’ve travelled with cops for 20 years, etc - great guys, love of country, etc etc” - and the tone was weird - like normal Americans don’t share these sentiments? - but - no example of actual action. When pressed - disappeared.

I’m sure in the big cities they have issues to deal with - but suburbia and the country? As you point out - collecting cows, and as I point out - handing out tickets to taxpayers for rolling through stop signs, or “55 in a 45” in the middle of nowhere, at a speed trap, at 2am.