People in Madison protesting Governor Scott Walker and Republican lawmakers trying to save the state of Wisconsin appear to have studied extreme Leftist Cindy Sheehan's 2005 playbook.
In the summer of 2005, Sheehan set up Camp Casey, in the name of her son killed in Iraq, to protest the war.
Sheehan's stunt lured protesters and the media to her Crawford, Texas tent city near President Bush's ranch. Naturally, the liberal media adored Sheehan and fed the spectacle.
The Leftists plan a similar stunt in Madison.
From the Wisconsin State Journal:
With lawmakers gearing up for a vote on the state budget, a “Walkerville” camp similar to the one that sprang up during the protests at the state Capitol earlier this year may be returning this weekend — this time to the terraces of Mifflin and Carroll streets.
We Are Wisconsin, an alliance of community groups, labor unions and others, has asked the city for a permit to set up the camp across from the Capitol to provide information about Gov. Scott Walker’s budget proposals and efforts to recall Republican legislators who voted to eliminate bargaining rights for most public employees.
The city’s Street Use Staff Commission will have a special meeting Friday to consider the permit application for a state budget rally that would begin Saturday and continue through June 20.
David Boetcher, who is helping to organize the event, said an information station would be accompanied by overnight campers, who could number in the thousands on weekends.
The proposed camp area is North Carroll Street from State Street to West Washington Avenue, and West Mifflin Street from State Street to Wisconsin Avenue, including the “30 on the Square” cul-de-sac at 30 W. Mifflin St. and the Philosophers’ Stones area between the Wisconsin Historical Museum and Myles Teddywedgers Cornish, 101 State St.
Who could spend weeks camping outside the Capitol?
Who has that kind of time?
Teachers!
"How I spent my summer vacation..."
Fred Levenhagen is probably packing his gear right now.
Of course, the union thugs will probably be bused in from the surrounding area. And then there will be the aging 1960s radical contingent and the young wannabes.
There will be drums.
Families planning a June summer vacation that includes a trip to the Capitol might want to reconsider.
Tourism in Madison is going to take a hit.
10 comments:
Do the Leftists want democracy and freedom for all?
Do you mean around the world? Everyone?
When are the Teabaggers going to realize Walker and corporate America are using them?
Is this site paid for by the Koch Brothers in crime?
"Teabaggers"?
Why do you use such a vulgar term to describe individuals in disagreement with you?
That's no way to win hearts and minds.
My wife and I are state employees and earn every cent we get. Walkers plan will cost us almost 10% net pay. I was being kind. Didn't know Teabaggers were so sensitive.
I'm just hoping for some sort of compromise so we can get this over with.
People without government jobs have seen at least a 10 percent cut in pay and benefits during these horrible economic times. My family has taken a huge hit.
It's horrible, but I'm not camping out because of it.
Why should those of us in the private sector have to carry the burden?
It's unjust.
How about we all camp out, because workers everywhere, public and private, are getting used by corporate America. Politicians are just their paid cronies these days, and we should all protest that fact. Ever stop to think why wages are going down at all, for any of us? We are the backbone of America. We shouldn't be going backwards, when there are people out there who are getting richer by the minute on our backs.
Class warfare doesn't work for me.
You know what this current crowd of GOP liars want is to turn the United Sates into China, where only a few giant corporations run things, they own the factories, the apartments, the grocery stores, the gas stations, the newspaper and magazine publications, the radio stations, the television stations and you pay them and they get all the benefits, and if you do not like it go jump off cliff. Well some Chinese workers seeing that as individuals that they cannot progress have done just that by committing suicide.
The current crowd of GOP liars want to steal Medicare from the elderly, they want to abolish a woman’s right to choose and have control over her own body, they want to abolish collective bargaining rights for our Unions, and on top of it all they want to blame the poor, the middle class and the public sector workers for a recession that the GOP created (Thanks to the Dullard “W”), while their beloved “Fat cats” continue to pay themselves exorbitant salaries, bonuses, fringe benefits.
The GOP is like the “Chicken Littles” always saying that the “Sky is Falling”, like the same ones that were the “Chicken Hawks” (“W” Wars), big talk no courage.
The United States, favors creativity wherever it can be found. We’re apostles of prosperity and defenders of the free exchange of ideas and when more people in more countries are free to rise, to invent, to communicate, to dissent, it’s not the doom of United States leadership, its the triumph of the American way.
Generations have worked hard and sacrificed much for the country to reach this point (individuals and our Unions that represented our poor, the middle class and public sector workers), and with further hard work and sacrifice (along with our relentless self-doubt) the United States will rise again, we do not tire and we are coming back, no matter what Fox news and their GOP “Chicken Littles” lackies keep saying about our nation. The win in New York was the beginning but the next will be Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin and later the other states of our nation, Never Bet Against the United States, watch out GOP, we are coming for you!
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