UPDATE, MARCH 26, 2012: School Contractor Fired for Pro-Walker Bumper Sticker
Breitbart's Big Government picked up on Mary Taylor's story.
The more people enlightened about the anti-Scott Walker thugs terrorizing Wisconsinites the better.
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UPDATE, March 15, 2012: Open records request shows that three employees at Whitewater High School DID complain about Mary Taylor's pro-Scott Walker sign.
Whitewater District Administrator Eric Runez had said no one from the district pressured Diversified Building Maintenance to get Taylor to remove the sign.
Custodian supervisor at Whitewater High School, Cindy Wiedenhoeft, was involved in the effort to force Taylor to remove the sign.
Details, from Mark Belling.
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Mark Belling spent a significant portion of his radio program yesterday following up on a story he discussed last Friday.
Mary Taylor, an employee of Diversified Building Maintenance, wrote to Belling to bring attention to a problem.
Taylor works for DBM at Whitewater High School. The company provides custodial services for the Whitewater public schools. She has a pro-Scott Walker sign on her personal car.
Taylor was told by her employer that DBM was getting complaints about the sign and she had to remove it. When she refused, she was fired.
After Belling spoke about Taylor's plight, her supervisor offered her job back. Taylor accepted but is concerned for her safety.
The manager at DBM wrote to Belling, claiming that Taylor was never fired and the company doesn't push any political agenda. The manager said both DBM and Whitewater public schools agreed Taylor has the right to have the sign on her car.
Taylor says DBM's statement about the firing is a "blatant lie." She says they offered her unemployment compensation and assistance in finding another job. That's not something a company does unless an employee has been fired.
It certainly sounds like bullies at Whitewater pushed DBM to force Taylor, a custodial employee, to get rid of the sign. DBM took the easy road, probably never expecting Taylor to refuse to remove the sign. Then, upon firing her, the company probably never thought Taylor would contact the media.
Obviously, this is PR nightmare for DBM.
FIRING a woman for having a pro-Scott Walker sign on her personal vehicle is a big story.
So where is all the media coverage on this thuggery?
Is it in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel?
No.
However, JSOnline continues to cover and promote a guy who had his house egged for displaying a "Recall Walker" sign on his front lawn.
That incident received a dramatic write-up by the Journal Sentinel's Jim Stingl, February 17, 2012.
Belling highlighted the deafening silence from the mainstream media on Taylor's story.
So today, the Journal Sentinel tweets an update on the egging case:
First he's egged for an anti- @GovWalker sign. Now he's threatened if he doesn't have a pro-Walker sign. http://ow.ly/9u29Q
From WauwatosaNOW:
A Wauwatosa man received a letter in the mail last week threatening to break the windows on his home if he didn't put up a yard sign showing support for Gov. Scott Walker.
According to a Wauwatosa Police Department report:
The resident of Elm Spring Avenue had been featured a few weeks ago in a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel article about damage to his Recall Walker yard sign. He believes the letter came in direct response, with it addressed to "crybaby."
He took the letter to police at 11:50 a.m. Wednesday.
"You look pompous now. You need a Stand for Walker sign in your front yard by next week," the letter read. "Then no more problems. Otherwise your windows go."
I condemn vandalism. Is that clear?
Throwing eggs at a house is wrong. Threating letters are wrong. Totally unacceptable.
Interesting though that this latest threat just happened to occur after Belling exposed the abuse of Mary Taylor, a dramatically worse case than the egging. Losing one's job is far more than a nuisance.
I'm not saying it's a fabricated threat, but the timing is somewhat suspect.
After all, threatening to take out someone's windows is more frightening than broken eggs.
Without question, it's embarrassing for the media to make such a big deal out of some eggs being tossed at a house while completely ignoring the firing of Mary Taylor.
Maybe DBM is a Journal Sentinel sponsor or seen as a potential sponsor.
Whatever, Taylor's story makes the media look bad. It makes the Democrats look bad. It makes the Leftists look bad. It makes union members look bad.
I wonder if Graeme Zielinski has a stash of bricks. Just wondering. He frequently tosses verbal bricks.
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UPDATE: Mark Belling gave more details about Mary Taylor on his Tuesday program.
Taylor worked on Monday without incident.
She is 68 years old and works 2 part-time jobs. She works seven days a week.
Taylor, a single mother, raised several children, all grown now.
She's a conservative and supports Governor Walker.
Sixty-eight. What a remarkable woman!
I admire her strength and courage.
Instead of showing concern for Sandra Fluke, Georgetown law student pushing for religious institutions to provide insurance that covers contraception and other procedures in violation of their beliefs, Obama should be calling Mary Taylor.
What she did was truly courageous. Nevertheless, I don't think Mary Taylor will be invited on MSNBC and The View.
No one is calling Mary Taylor a hero.
Why haven't the media in southeastern Wisconsin covered this story?
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UPDATE, March 7, 2012: Woman says she was fired, rehired over Walker sign
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel FINALLY posted a story online, after being shamed into it.
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