Why are Wisconsin state workers blocking access to petition drives?
By ParaTed2k
@ParaTed2k (22940)
Sheboygan, Wisconsin
March 7, 2011 2:36pm CST
In districts where there are petition drives to recall Democrat state senators, union members and state workers are blocking access to petition drives.
Firefighters are blocking the parking lots where petition drives are being held. People are taking up all the spaces in the parking lots. They are holding up signs, blocking the view of people driving past the petition drive areas.
What are these people afraid of? Do they have so little faith in the democrats being threatened with recall that they have to stoop to such tactics? Don't they think the cowards who ran away stand any chance of beating a recall?
Or is it that the workers know that only the people living in the district are allowed a say, and since those districts might not bow down to the union gods, there's a good chance the democrats will lose.
In fairness, it is a valid fear since the Democrats might just end up on the losing side of this over all... and there will be 20 Republicans in the Senate and cowering to another state won't work anymore.
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6 responses
@laglen (19759)
• United States
8 Mar 11
Well they do have a right to picket. and this is par for the course. I think in any other instance the same would be happening. I think what angers me the most is that this is still going on. Now other states are facing the same. Do these people realize the cost they are incurring for tax payers? Goodness, more proof where these self serving people's priorities lie.
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@blue65packer (11826)
• United States
8 Mar 11
If Wisconsites don't like the way Gov. Walker is running the state,then why aren't they coming up with ways,to give to Gov. Walker,to cut the budget instead of what he plans on? These people are cowards in more way then one! They think they have all the right aswers! If they do I beat alot of them did vote for Walker last Novemeber! I wish this crap would just be over with! It has gone on too long!
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@MrCoolantSpray (1005)
• United States
7 Mar 11
It seems like if firefighters were doing that it would be all kinds of illegal. I'll wait for the evening news to see this--I haven't heard of it either. Fox News has been reporting pretty heavily on the Wisconsin budget issue, so if this is going on I'll expect them to show it. I definitely support a recall--these guys were elected to do a job. In most jobs, if you don't show up for three days running, you're assumed to have quit.
I'm gonna rant here, because I can:
I've got no problem with private sector unions. I think all unions are a bad idea, but in the private sector the free market still works. The unions aren't stealing from anyone. If you want to buy a union Chevy, you're welcome to it. But public unions are a different story. My taxes pay public workers' salary, and I can't get out of that without creative accounting or taking enough pay cuts to where I don't pay taxes at all. With forced unionization, some of my tax money is automatically deducted from teachers' and firefighters' (to name a few) salaries as union dues. The union then uses that money, which originated from me, to support political causes I disagree with. I don't like that.
That unions have the audacity to complain about corporations donated to political causes they disagree with only irks me more. I know I'm not alone in this, and I expect unions will get a lot more violent to maintain the status quo. Public opinion is turning against them.
/end rant.
@ParaTed2k (22940)
• Sheboygan, Wisconsin
10 Mar 11
There are currently 8 Republicans and 6 Democrats with active recalls movements against them. All are doing pretty well, despite the attempts by the left to block access to the ones against Democrats.
So far no reports of any attempts to block access to the Republican recalls.
In fairness, I've only heard of blockage attempts in 2 areas.
@Taskr36 (13963)
• United States
7 Mar 11
I searched like Metallion and couldn't come up with reliable sources. If this is true, it really wouldn't surprise me. These people have made it very clear that they do not support the democratic process. That's why they're blocking this vote in the first place. The voters have spoken by electing a majority of republicans. Their elected officials are planning to carry out the job they were elected to do. Those that oppose them are now doing everything, including abandoning their jobs and fleeing the state to prevent the democratic process from succeeding.
@ParaTed2k (22940)
• Sheboygan, Wisconsin
7 Mar 11
This is the email I got...
"This is what we were up against today at our 2 Recall Wirch rallies. At the one this morning in Burlington, attended by Nancy Racine, they also blocked the entrances to the rally, limiting access. Firemen, from where I don't know, blocked a location in Burlington today where we take signatures from passing motorists. We call them Drive-Throughs. We shut the site down early because they were blocking access so motorists couldn't turn in.
From below, the same thing happened this afternoon at the Brat Stop in Kenosha, Apparently, attendance at both rallies was affected. They are after us in a major way because we have been successful. So we need to continue to be better than them. We are considering ways to neutralize their intimidation tactics. We will do this. We will win this fight."
I'm looking for links to stories myself, probably from bloggers, the waste of newspapers here probably won't report on them until they can spin it against the right.
