Wisconsin Tea Party Members Plan “It’s Time to Take Out the Trash Day” at WI Capitol (Video)
Posted by Jim Hoft on Saturday, March 5, 2011, 8:26 AM
Wisconsin tea party members are planning a “It’s Time to Take out the Trash Day” at the Wisconsin State Capitol to clean up after the smelly slobs who defaced the capitol building during their two weeks of protesting and sleepovers. Wisconsin officials say the cleanup after the protests will cost the state tens of thousands of dollars.
Via FOX News:
This is from their Facebook page:
It’s not about partisanship or protests, but pride.
It is time to take out the trash… literally. In true Flash Mob fashion, on Sunday at exactly 1300 hours (1:00 pm for you non-military types) we will do an extensive police call (pick up the trash) around the capitol square. Regardless of the state the grounds are in, we will do this as both a literal and symbolic way to show our respect for our home.
TEA Partiers know how this is done. It is time to show OUR pride for OUR state OUR way and be the example.
Even if you cannot attend, please share this and invite all of your sane friends who share our love of Wisconsin.
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Jeni commented:
The Party of civility comes through again! God bless the TEA Party – and many, MANY thanks.
greg commented:
Taking out the trash…sounds good but it does take jobs away from the union laborers and janitorial staff that had planned to make some good overtime money. Looks like another work stoppage looms
wheezer commented:
If I was living there I would help. Just goes to show you who cares and who doesn’t….
Ginger commented:
I watched that! God Bless our AMERICAN patroits.
You liberal/racist/communist/muslim/demo-rat pigs you are not worth the ground you walk on!
Ginger commented:
btw… our Tea Party Patroits needs to have someone to watch their backs. Have the camera’s rolling!
exceller commented:
“smelly slobs”, haha, it sounds so funny but damnit its true. these self absorbed whiners only care about me, me, me, and do not respect the dignity of the capital builing or grounds.
KC commented:
Standing in solidarity with the Tea Party in Wisconsin!
I won’t be able to attend but I would if I lived there.
“He is not a God of chaos, but a God of order”!
HANOI JOHN KERRY commented:
http://www.Indoctrinate-U.com instructs on how to break stuff.
We don’t do clean-up!
Mark1957 commented:
I can hear the MSM now, ” protesters took time off to clean up the capitol.” Thereby giving credit to the Goonions.
Granny commented:
“Do they not care about their capitol?” Nope – because many of them do not live in Wisconsin but have been bused in by the unions from out of state. It isn’t their capitol and anarchy rules the day.
NickDeringer commented:
This is sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeet! A brilliant move. It shows the real difference between the Left and the Conservative movement.
Tired Okie commented:
Problem is the media will give the slugs the credit or act like it’s a provication on the part of the Tea Party. This is the most disgusting thing I have ever witnessed. Anarchy supported by our president and whitewashed by those who are supposed to be the “watchdogs” of our society.
SOYO (Shame On You Obama!)
Betsy Ross commented:
So, we have union workers who were getting drunk and stoned at a park on their break, remember that? We have union member teachers lying about being sick to go protest. We have the NFL on the brink of cancelling the season over what, collective bargaining.
We’ve seen union thuggery, greed, and sloth in action over these past weeks in Wisconsin.
Now, can someone please explain to me how it can be that the media keeps telling us how the American people are supporting all of this.
It’s not adding up.
Robert commented:
Tell them to take a forklift and get that rotund guy out of the rotunda.
Taqiyyotomist commented:
OT Speaking of taking out the TRASH
ATTN JIM HOFT:
http://gatewaypundit.rightnetwork.com/2011/03/obama-administration-admits-to-fraud-sebelius-tells-committee-they-double-counted-500-billion-dollars-in-obamacare/#comment-278573
Comment#55 needs immediate deletion. Thank you. A racist P.O.S. left his droppings.
megapotamus commented:
Any chance the professional sweepers of SEIU will attend? Helpfully, I mean….
M.E. commented:
Those who are coming out to clean should wear something that distinguishes them as being from the Tea Party or the Libs will take video and take credit saying THEY are cleaning up after themselves and you know that will make the MSM…they will get the credit for the hard work of those who have respect for our country…Tea Party members.
Taqiyyotomist commented:
Those who are predicting that the MSM will credit the thug protesters for cleanup:
YOU ARE CORRECT. The state-run media will do exactly that.
They’re too easy to predict. Everything about them.
uncivil & right commented:
My advice,full hazmat suits with foot and hand protection. You never know what plagues these union vermin are incubating.
Madkangaroo commented:
Don’t be surprized if the goons ship in some cleanup crews on *Saturday*, with media cameras rolling, to coopt the Tea Party effort.
Texmom commented:
Now this is the way it is done. Let the radicals destroy themselves while the Tea Party patiently cleans house behind them, for all the world to see. Bravo, WI Tea Party:)
Millitant Conservative commented:
#20 March 5, 2011 at 9:15 am
Madkangaroo commented:
Your kidding right?? The left does not do charity, especially the unions.
This will be totally ignored by the MSM, That is o.k. as the new media will cover it.
I share the real news with my co workers and freinds. I am the go to guy for real news, it really pisses off the liberals. So much so they have stopped trying to prove me wrong. I have even converted a few. I do not belittle the left I just show their supporters who they voted for and support. Many cannot stomach the people they thought they knew. LOL
powder is dry
Bob in Madistan commented:
I have been at (not in) the Capitol a few times these past weeks, and the area has been surprisingly clean. There is no litter, and discarded signs are put in bins marked ‘sign storage’.
Still plan on being there tomorrow though!
Sparky commented:
What a pity!!! Guess Walker will have to lay off more union members to pay for the cost of repairing the Capitol.
What a good way to teach the rudiments of behavior and consequence.
Hope Walker and his Republicans can remain strong.
StrangernFiction commented:
#23 March 5, 2011 at 9:53 am
Bob in Madistan commented:
Leftists are not wholly incapable of learning, especially when it comes to advancing their cause.
Jim commented:
Right on TEA Party!
truth teller commented:
Can the Tea Party go to DC and take out the trash?
dwd commented:
Great idea! Please, anyone in the area, do your best to make it there and/or spread the word to others who can. Make a clear, undeniable example of the difference between the left and right.
Badgerdoc commented:
Yeah, come on down tomorrow. There really is no cleanup needed, as the protesters have been cleaning for the past 3 weeks. The signs are down in the Capitol, the painters tape left minimal residue, and any cleanup from tape can be done for free by painters union volunteers (who have been the contractors for Capitol cleanup for years). So you won’t need to bring 7.5 million dollars worth of “Goo Gone”. But by all means, come and see our beautiful Capitol building and grounds.
Ruebacca commented:
I bet $10 they will be stopped because only unionized sanitation workers can do the job.
Madkangaroo commented:
#22 March 5, 2011 at 9:47 am
Millitant Conservative commented:
“Your kidding right?? The left does not do charity, especially the unions.”
No, I’m not kidding, and they would not be doing charity. As a I wrote, the effort would be to co-opt the Tea Party plans. The goons cleaning up would an be entirely self serving propaganda ploy with which the media would be more than happy to help with.
Chisum commented:
Badgerdoc commented:
Yeah, come on down tomorrow. There really is no cleanup needed, as the protesters have been cleaning for the past 3 weeks. The signs are down in the Capitol, the painters tape left minimal residue, and any cleanup from tape can be done for free by painters union volunteers (who have been the contractors for Capitol cleanup for years). So you won’t need to bring 7.5 million dollars worth of “Goo Gone”. But by all means, come and see our beautiful Capitol building and grounds.
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The Administration Department said the state might be able do a cleanup and “very limited restoration” of the statehouse and grounds for $347,500, if outside specialists are not required to do the work.
Tim Donovan, a spokesman for the department, said the state self-insured its buildings but did carry so-called excess policies for certain losses. Donovan was unable to say late Friday whether the excess policies would cover any possible damage in this case.
[...]
The statehouse, he said, has 43 kinds of stone and the chemistry of those marbles and of different kinds of tape can interact differently. The longer the tape remains in place, the greater the chance for some effect, he said.
Many of the papers and banners posted in the statehouse were put up using painter’s tape, which is employed to minimize effects on walls. Stephans said Friday he had ordered that tape sent to the Capitol during the demonstrations to minimize effects on the building.
On Friday, some of the tape and fliers had already been removed. In one second-floor hallway at least, no perceptible damage to the marble appeared where the tape had been removed.
But Draeger said marble is also very porous, allowing adhesives from tape to potentially be absorbed into the stone and do damage that might not be apparent immediately. He said he walked through the Capitol during the height of the protests and was struck by the number of papers and signs.
“It kind of made my heart sink really to walk in and see all that tape up on the walls,” Draeger said.
Draeger said that damage can be difficult to detect right away and that even just estimating it could get expensive. His own “rough, ballpark estimate” of what a professional expert might charge to do a full assessment of possible damage was $100,000, he said.
The Friday memo by Stephans estimated the cost of a full damage assessment at $60,000 for just the interior and up to $500,000 for an assessment of the inside and outside of the Capitol.
http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/117409458.html
But don’t let the experts’ opinions sway you.
badgerdoc has all the answers.
Badgerdoc commented:
The Stephans estimate you quote is part of the original 7.5 million estimate he made, which has now been completely discredited. The state facilities director has stated he has seen no firsthand damage. But no, I don’t have all the answers, nor does anyone at this juncture. We may need to actually wait and see. But do feel free to come down today or tomorrow to check it out first hand. I’ll even buy you a beer! I really would. I have friends and relatives who agree with all’yall, as my Texas cousins say. I will not, buy you tea, however.
Chisum commented:
The Stephans estimate you quote is part of the original 7.5 million estimate he made, which has now been completely discredited. The state facilities director has stated he has seen no firsthand damage.
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How can an estimate be “completely discredited” when a professional estimate has not yet been conducted? At my link it was explained that the original estimate was based on square footage.
Plale said that the state had not yet received any quote from an experienced contractor on the full cost of assessing and repairing any damages – something that outside experts said would be needed to legitimately estimate expenses.
“No one knows what the true number is going to be. There’s going to have to be a thorough assessment of the Capitol. Any number that’s given now is going to be someone’s best guesstimate,” said Jim Draeger, the deputy state historic preservation officer.
I notice that nobody has addressed the issue of the damage caused by using SHARPIES to write on POROUS marble.
Yes, folks, those brain trusts used MAGIC MARKERS to draw on the marble walls and floor of the CAPITOL BUILDING!
I realize that those messages were very important. After all, it was for the children.
The end justifies the means.
crosspatch commented:
Wait a second. Aren’t these people, by cleaning up around the state capital, taking away jobs from union members who are paid to do that sort of thing? We can’t have volunteers going around doing work for free that is supposed to be the job of state workers! In fact, imagine would would happen if volunteers did all sorts of jobs now being performed by union workers. Why, it would be just a catastrophe. Imagine what would happen if unemployed and retired people with experience in science and industry simply showed up to offer their services on a volunteer basis even doing such things as maintaining parks, libraries, and other government buildings. Why it could put those union jobs at risk!
RIZNAP commented:
I was just there, and NO ONE, especially the protesters, have done any clean up. They have only left a huge MESS. Chisum & Badgerdoc must be at a different state building!?
raybojabo commented:
“Time to take out the trash.” The garbage finally got up and walked out.
jimg commented:
The Stephans estimate you quote is part of the original 7.5 million estimate he made, which has now been completely discredited.
You can’t discredit an estimate.
Know why?
It’s an ESTIMATE.
Taxpayer commented:
Tea. Party. Rocks.
Lefties. Destroy. Rocks.
timwi commented:
Badgerdoc did you illegally and fraudulently hand out get out of work passes? Or was that just your colleagues? Isn’t it interesting that in the history of the capitol no group has had to have a special set of laws and policies put into place to prevent them from behaving despicably? Other than your group Mr. Doc. Do you have any grow up quick pills you could dispense to your slobbish peaceful protesters?
Donald Douglas commented:
A new progressive anti-Walker attack ad out of Wisconsin: ‘Americans Support Making Public Employees Pay More for Benefits and Retirement Programs’.
timwi commented:
Hey Daffy Doc- you lied about the Capitol being clean. Here is a link to pictures from inside the capitol this morning. Daffy, Daffy, Daffy- it does you no good to lie. Everyone take a look at the peaceful protester who wants you to leave your children with him by the way. Did you know that peaceful protesters were leaving their children in the hands of complete strangers with no background checks that look like this person so they could chant, drum, scream, and deface our capitol. I wonder if social services will investigate.
http://althouse.blogspot.com/2011/03/in-capitol-this-morning.html
Chisum commented:
Timwi,
Good find. Isn’t there a law requiring people to wear shoes in public buildings?
Badgerdoc is a propagandist. Ignore it.
Sean Insanity commented:
And maybe their compa-tea-ots in D.C. can do something about a different sort of housecleaning
John Boehner fights back tears as as he recalls his rise from humble beginnings during the American midterm elections count. Photograph: Chip Somodevilla/Getty
John Boehner, who is set to be the new Republican speaker of the House of Representatives, is one of the most lobby-friendly politicians in Washington, located at the centre of a web of corporate cash and influence.
The heavily tanned, golf-playing Republican congressman from Ohio will become one of the most powerful politicians in Washington when he replaces the defeated liberal icon, Nancy Pelosi.
The Republicans’ huge victory in last week’s midterm elections has effectively crowned him as the most senior Republican in office. He will spearhead the rightwing fight against Barack Obama and attempt to reverse many of the Democrats’ legislative achievements of the past two years, including trying to repeal healthcare reform.
But Democrats and liberal campaigning groups are hoping that the huge network of wealth and lobbyist influence around Boehner might be the chink in his armour. They point to his long history of consorting closely with wealthy, fast-living lobbyists which they say suggests he is distinctly out of touch with an American public still suffering from the impact of the Great Recession.
“It will become a tough issue for him. If the focus of the public goes on him and all the lobbyists around him, it could get very difficult,” said Professor Bruce Gronbeck, a political scientist at the University of Iowa and a specialist in the politics of scandal.
There is certainly a lot for Democrats and Boehner’s other political enemies to work with. His reputation in Washington circlesis almost that of a Hollywood movie sterotype of the as a glad-handing politician with close ties to the capital’s lobbyists akin to a Hollywood movie sterotype. Several nicknames seem to sum up his style. The first is GTL, standing for “golf, tan and lobbyists”. The second is Boehnerland, a term used to describe the enormous network of powerful influence peddlers close to him who have donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to his campaigns and have taken him on dozens of corporate-funded private trips around the country.
Boehner makes no secret of his lobbyist links. He once organised a regular meeting of politicians and lobbyists called the Thursday Group – now disbanded – at which both sides discussed a shared agenda of reducing taxes and regulations on business. His close circle of lobbyist allies consists of some of the best known names in Washington power-broking circles. One important figure is Bruce Gates, the top individual donor during Boehner’s career giving more than $70,000 to his campaigns. Gates’s wife, Joyce, spent two years as Boehner’s chief of staff and Gates himself has served as treasurer for one of Boehner’s fund-raising vehicles, the Freedom Project. He has a long list of big business clients including steel companies and is now in charge of government relations for the huge tobacco firm Altria, the parent group of Philip Morris.
Another senior lobbyist with close ties to Boehner is Henry Gandy who has lobbied for healthcare firms and financial giants such as Goldman Sachs. Other financial firms, such as Bank of America, have been represented by Marc Lampkin, once Boehner’s general counsel and now a lobbyist. Lampkin, like several other former Boehner staffers, has enjoyed the fruits of the “revolving door” between working for politicians and then working for lobbying firms. He continues to enjoy a close relationship with Boehner. The list goes on, including Sam Baptista who plays golf with Boehner and is a lobbyist representing Goldman Sachs and Discover Financial. “Many politicians have received significant money from lobbyists, but John Boehner does receive a lot of support from this industry,” said Dave Levinthal, a director at the Centre for Responsive Politics, which monitors lobbyist cash flows in Washington. “There is no indication that he is going to change his mode of operation.”
Of course, every politician in Washington has links to lobbyists representing anything from banks to unions. But the scale and closeness of Boehner’s links has raised many eyebrows. Critics point to an infamous incident in 1995 when Boehner handed out cheques from the tobacco industry to politicians on the floor of Congress. He later apologised.
Watchdogs and Democrats point out that Boehner has a long record of resisting efforts to reform the lobbyist influence in Washington and has supported the agenda of big businesses. They point out that Boehner voted on measures that benefited health insurance companies and has taken large amounts of cash from the health insurance industry.He was one of only 19 congressman to vote to protect an anti-trust exemption that helped out the insurance industry, which has given him many thousands of dollars.
He has attacked regulation on steel companies at the same time as he takes money from them. He has lobbied the Environmental Protection Agency to drop a lawsuit against a steel company that supports him. While there is no proof of a direct link between donations to Boehner and specific actions, anti-lobbyist groups protest that the huge donations to politicians are not simply good will and philanthropy. One way or another, they want something back. “A lobbyist’s goal is to exact a result for a client and they are paid handsomely to do so,” said Levinthal.
Boehner and his allies dismiss such criticism as Democratic anger over their recent political defeats. They say Boehner’s actions are nothing to do with lobbyist cash and everything to do with a genuine political commitment to promoting business growth and his conservative pro-free market principles.
But anti-lobbying groups point to the huge flows of cash now flooding into the US electoral system – often via lobbyists – in the wake of a recent supreme court decision that scrapped many campaign finance reform restrictions.
Levinthal said that in the wake of that decision last week’s midterm elections had been among the most lavishly funded in US history. He said people were concerned that the sheer power of lobbyist donations could overwhelm the influence of ordinary voters. “We see that lobbyists as an industry are paid $3.5bn a year to influence lawmakers. They will have a greater opportunity to get their narrow special interests across than average Americans,” he said.
donh commented:
Wonderful Idea. Play some Slim Whitman while cleaning … http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIQ2aWfZ1nQ
Chisum commented:
Sean Insanity,
Speaking of politicians with “chinks in their armor”.
Among the many, many false narratives Barack Obama successfully perpetrated on the American public in 2008 with the help of a compliant and fawning media was the notion that Obama’s election was the result of “small donors” and a grassroots fundraising movement.
It all was part of the political mythology of Obama.
In fact, as discussed before, small donors made up no greater a proportion of Obama’s donors than of George Bush’s donors.
Obama is the true candidate of big money. Always has been, always will be.
http://legalinsurrection.blogspot.com/2011/03/billion-dollar-candidate-has-left.html
sean insanity commented:
So??–my point & the point of the article is that they are all corrupt–neither party has a monopoly on virtue & concern for our best interests–We need campaign finance reform & maybe we should at least think about establishing finite term limits (such as the two terms for POTUS)–Why aren’t you people pushing for that–I really think that their would be common ground there
Chisum commented:
So? Oh, that was your point?
Riiighttt! I believe you. Really I do.
sean insanity commented:
So Chisum, I guess it only counts as corruption if it emanates from someone from the other side–WTG deep thinker–
Chisum commented:
WTG deep thinker
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Sean Insanity/Above the fray,
I’m a deep enough thinker to recognize a concern troll when I read one.
Badgerdoc commented:
OK, First I was called a statist, now a “propagandist”. Hmmmm. Well, in fact I did not lie about the Capitol. I look at the pictures allegedly from this morning, and I am not seeing all the dirt. There are still signs, but no longer taped up. If it is a little messy outside, well there were just thousands of people there. When it is over, some of the protesters will clean up anything that remains. I would challenge anyone to go down there at 9 tonight and tell me it is dirty. Magic marker graffiti on the marble? I don’t think so. And no, I did not hand out any excuses. So because some docs did, now all docs did, because some protesters are messy, we all are. A few too many generalizations don’t you think? And as far as a “discredited” estimate? Well, if I’m trying to sell my house and the first appraiser says it is worth 7.5 million and the next says it is worth 347 thousand, I’m thinking that one of those estimates could be discredited when all is said and done.
Bruce Desautels commented:
Union deeds time and again prove that union ideology is unfit for American consumption. The time has come that America relegate the bankrupting socialist philosophy of the public sector unions to the trash can, where it deservedly and justly now belongs. Their time is come and gone. This is a matter of national survival: us or them. There is no other option. If public sector unions survive, then the nation will perish under a mountain of unsustainable public debt and insolvency. The national treasury and that of the states is not a bottomless pit; and neither are the wallets of American taxpayers. However, the unions care less about our ability to pay–they think we are all made to serve them.
The union mindset is killing our country. it drives business off our shores, it destroys creativity, industriousness and the work ethic; while it rewards sloth, avarice, envy, and a disordered pride. Union pigs will drag all of America into the mire, if we do not stand together to stop them. No more public unions. End them.
Those who have a desire to serve the public trust must shut their mouths and serve rather then demand a continuous increase of booty from the public treasury. If true sacrifice is too much beneath them, then they ought stay home. America does not need such jaundiced servants, nor their perversions of the work ethic and misuse of the public trust.
Badgerdoc commented:
So all the cops and firefighters should just shut up and serve? Call 911 and tell them to shut up.
daveinboca commented:
The Human Garbage Lefties were never toilet-trained, so their piggy habits are due to bad parenting. Too bad that the state mollycoddled so many specimens of recessive DNA for so long, the breed got out of control and had soiled its own underwear—no wonder the Tea Party folks will have a big job cleaning up after the horde of hippies…
Bruce Desautels commented:
No one put a gun to their heads to make them take the jobs, did they? So, yes… If you make a decision to SERVE in the public sector, then as a taxpayer–YOUR EMPLOYER–I expect you to do the job I AM PAYING YOU TO DO, and STFU! Do you get it , now, jackass?
Badgerdoc commented:
OK Bruce, Call a cop and tell him STFU. I know a couple who might take offense to that. So yes, asswipe, I do get your point. Hey dave, Why not fly in from Boca and see the big “mess” for yourself. Oh yeah, there IS no mess.
ilikai commented:
So the Tea Party people are picking up the pieces that the Democrats left lying around again in a heap. Just shows who is the civilized society and who is made up of troglodytes.
Chisum commented:
Tea Partiers Clean-Up Mess Left By Union Protesters in Wisconsin
http://www.breitbart.tv/tea-partiers-clean-up-mess-left-by-union-protesters-in-wisconsin/
Badgerdoc commented:
All are welcome to join us tomorrow. There will be more protesters than tea partiers, and there will be very little little mess to pick up. I would seriously meet any one of you at the Capitol and we can see together how things are. Then tomorrow night we can both post what we saw.
timwi commented:
Sorry but Madison doctors are not to be trusted. They lie, try to rip off the citizens of this state, and are under review for ethics violations as we speak. Do you have your own ethics review to go to? Is that why you have so much time on your hands to write on blogs? And by the way- you welcome someone to your house- a house that belongs to you. The capitol belongs to all of us and we welcome ourselves there idiot.
timwi commented:
Here, watch the dirty free loaders in action
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2huP8YIaTII
donh commented:
You might get me to be a lot more accepting of illegal immigrants if they were hired to replace the spoiled money grubbing overpaid red diaper doper babbies in make pretend public sector jobs . The private sector is getting squeezed at both ends. Illegals driving down wages on one side , and a loathsome rising tax burden on the other side to pay for a snotty arrogant public sector that won’t reduce its obnoxious budgeting one nickle no matter how bad things get. …and its the spendthrift free lunch crowd in the public sector that is hell bent on pumping our society full of illegals ….becuase they want somebody to cut their grass for $10.00 while they grab a $75,000+ salary off the backs of people working real jobs. ….Jobs where pay only comes from turning in useful profitable hard work . Well lets have the illegals fill pot holes, plow streets, work in fire departments, teach chorus to school children, sit in a library, spoon sloppy joes at cafaterias, guard prisoners for $9.00 an hour. Lets find out just how much Democrats love illegals by opening their sheltered politically protected careers to the same competition the rest of us face.
Badgerdoc commented:
63 – Hey Tim!
Thanks for reminding me about that ethics review tomorrow. I don’t recall inviting anyone to my “house”, but I do invite one and all to join me and all the other “dirty freeloaders” at the Capitol tomorrow. In case any of you actually care, the vast majority of the people at the protests do not look like the folks in any right wing blog post. They ARE middle America. Look SOMEWHERE else for pictures of the protests, and you will see young and old, mainstream Americans who look like you do. I know you don’t want to believe this, but it is simply a fact. Oh I’m sorry, Tim, I meant this is simply a fact, idiot.
L.E. Liesner commented:
Typical of the entitlement crowd, somebody else has to clean the pig sty they created.
Badgerdoc commented:
#67 The entitlement crowd?
I don’t think you have the remotest idea of who the people are who have been at the Capitol. Damn near everyone there has jobs. Many are worried about keeping those jobs. Next Saturday, family farmers from all over Wisconsin are coming to the Capitol…those damn greedy, entitled farmers! Pig sty? Uh no, no sty, no mess. Come see for yourself!
Sierra Nolan commented:
Has the right ever heard of the notorious beauty and cleanliness of Madison? That the protesters did rolling volunteer shifts cleaning the capitol themselves after the first two days of protests made the need obvious? That the protesters stay after every rally to pick up every item of liter, bag the trash, break down the recycling (that Governor Walker will soon make non-mandatory, but we will continue to do so)? That we have a resod the capitol lawn already planned for the spring to deal with the damage to our grounds? That we choose to live in a city that has a rather high property tax rate because we value the beauty and cleanliness of our city and are willing to pay to keep it that way? Don’t insult us. Do a little research: Madison top city to raise a family for decades now.
voted against carter commented:
The Grown Ups to the rescue AGAIN.
This is like teenagers threw a party when their parents were out of town.
Now the parents are home and cleaning up little johnny and sally’s mess.
I was there commented:
This pathetic move was laughable. I witnessed the “flash mob” of literally 7 people. These sorry patriots took to the capitol square to find only a few cigarette butts and candy wrappers. People have protested now for three weeks and there are no piles of garbage anywhere only large dumpsters filled with neatly bagged garbage that has been collected on a regular basis. This disappointed group would have done better to clean up the rural highway they drove in on. Pathetic. Nice try. The capitol square is immaculate. There has been hundreds of thousands of people at the square over a three week period and it has been maintained and kept up like it always has been. To be referred to as “trash” by the likes of people who comment on this thread seems ironic.
Sierra Nolan commented:
I’d like to see some before and after pictures of this event if anyone can provide them. Living and working downtown, and having been documenting this protest in pictures since its first day, I would be very interested in knowing what work was actually done, since the place was quite clean on Saturday. (Blue painters tape and protest posters were still attached during public hours Saturday, but they had been removed by the time the building was open this morning according to an employee I spoke with at the capitol today, so that had to be the work of capitol employees since no memebers of the public should have been in the building while it was closed according to the court order). I was downtown today as usual and did not see cleaners or even any of the reported counter-protesters that were saying they’d be in town today. Love some information on this stuff!
Bruce Desautels commented:
A Tale of Two Cities
Madison… Et tu, McCook?
The zeitgeist of false pride is palpable in the raging war between the public unions and ‘We the People.’ The discourse in Madison, Wisconsin, exemplified by many within the ranks of the public sector unions, demonstrates a spirit that labors not to improve working conditions or negotiate a fair wage, but rather exerts a seemingly indefatigable force to institutionalize attitudes that subvert the republican process and undermine the common good. Every union member may not be cognizant of or in agreement with the deception in which they participate, still they are compelled to propagate that which promotes, directs, and preserves the anarchy of an ancient perverse spirit: “I shall not so serve!”
The right to organize to secure a fair wage and a just regard for one’s honest labor is natural; but only to the extent that such undertaking comports to moral principles. It is contrary to justice to demand such compensation when the entity’s ability to pay is given no heed. More destructive still is an action taken under such pretense as to subvert the welfare of the society by forcing insolvency upon its government. The result of reckless public policy is to undermine the community by making constituents desperate beneath the burden of punitive taxation—an insufferable yoke, but one inevitably required to appease the insatiable demands of an obese public sector. History proves that unchecked taxation is the omen of civil strife. Yet where is the taxpayer represented in this fight for “workers’ rights”? Do not all citizens “labor” in some fashion? What of our demands? What of the pressing duty to adequately provide for our families? That duty is made increasingly difficult by the runaway taxation that invariably follows unbridled government spending—and its toxic effects upon the private sector and the economy. Such spending is made all the more obscene and harmful by the arrogance and avarice of public unions.
Powerful collectives have misused their leverage to corrupt the political process, the system to which they promised to honorably serve. Taxpayers are expected to surrender our livelihoods so to fund the insatiable living standards of unionized oligarchs. The common man is without representation in this fight because those we elect to promote the general welfare are eventually bought or compromised by public union skullduggery. Union leaders, and their willing accomplices in the press, propagate graft and corruption, so to purchase legislative fiat from elected officials—those whom we employ to uphold the common good. Until recently, the cabal of fraud went unchallenged because public unions solidified an unseemly marriage to unelected bureaucrats—our overpaid public paper shufflers, whom through misguided statute hold unilateral power over the purse (Commission on Industrial Relations—the CIR).
Unfettered union power rides roughshod over our republican form of government, at all levels, and the taxpayer is expected to submit. Well, newsflash—this is not an Islamic theocracy and ‘We the People’ will not surrender our livelihoods to a caliphate of public-sector terrorists. Every union member, who demonstrated in Wisconsin and elsewhere for “the cause” was cognizant of its nefarious goal to commit extortion against the public treasury, and We the People. Each participated to act as a means to an end, and did so without regard for the general welfare of the community—to wit: those of us who are the employers of these public “servants” were told to go to Hell. Does this sound familiar, McCook?
Somewhere along the way, public servants abandoned the altruistic creed to which they presumably felt called to serve; and the prize made more attractive through pride and ego became not a servant’s heart, but rather the cult of personality and spirit of avarice. Greed is the true motivator behind this unhinged cacophony for collective bargaining rights within the public sector. The Devil is always waiting in the wings to satisfy the insatiable egos of unprincipled fools, those who dream big and act small. Let us hope that the sitting members of Nebraska’s State Board of Business and Labor Commission, and those serving on the McCook City Council, possess better judgment then the protesting public-sector fools in Wisconsin. Time is short; the Nebraska Unicameral has rightly curtailed spending … Et tu, McCook?
kks commented:
have not seen one “tea partyer” yet! Fox news gets the story sooo wrong. I live in madison and the capitol building was not defaced and there were not sharpi writings on any marble….and there was no damage done…..this is really comical!….always good for a laugh! thank you!
Carlos commented:
As part of cleaning up, I am waiting for the tea party organizers to let us all know which hotels the missing senators are staying at and organize to protest in-front of the hotels. Force them to keep moving from place to place or return. Our Republican senators are putting up with the non-sence going on while trying to get their work done. On the other hand, the Democratic senators are on VACATION and we continue to pay their salaries. WILL BE WAITING FOR THE EMAIL LETTING ME KNOW WHERE TO MEET IN ILLINOIS TO SHOW THE COWARD SENATORS THAT WE WILL NO LONGER TOLERATE THEIR CHILDISH BEHAVIOR. THE CITIZENS VOTED IN NOVEMBER AND THE DEMOCRATS JUST CANNOT STAND NOT HAVING THE POWER SO THEY USE THE UNIONS (THEIR EMPLOYER) TO KEEP THE POWER.