February 18, 2011
by Andy Cohen
Of course, there are no riots. None. Not one. But that’s what the Right Wing talking heads want us all to believe. That’s what the Republican elected officials are telling us. They want us to think that those that are protesting newly elected Republican Governor Scott Walker’s plan to eradicate the unions and squash the labor movement are wreaking havoc all over the state of Wisconsin. The right wingers—including Walker himself—want us to believe that it is necessary to call out the National Guard to quell the violent protests breaking out all over the state. They’re propagating the lie that the hospitals are filling with injured protesters and the jails are being overcrowded by the violent offenders who are taking part.
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February 18, 2011
by Source
By Jason Stein, Patrick Marley and Bill Glauber/ Journal Sentinel Online (Milwaukee, WI) / Feb. 18, 2011 Madison — With Senate Democrats still missing, the Wisconsin Assembly convened at 9 a.m. Friday to take up Gov. Scott Walker’s budget-repair bill as activists continue to fill the State Capitol, drinking coffee, banging drums and digging in for […]
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