Unions and the Wisconsin Governor

[Ed W]

The DOJ is now investigating death threats including this email sent to all Republican members of the Wisconson house. 


Please put your things in order because you will be killed and your familes
will also be killed due to your actions in the last 8 weeks.

I'ts unfortunate if this letter came from a Wisconsin teacher, not only because of the threat, but because of the massive number of misspelled words!   

I looked on The Google for news stories to support this, but other than a host of bloggers and...wait for it...Fox News, there's no mainstream media coverage.  I know, I know, to a dyed-in-the-wool conservative, that's because there's a 'liberal bias' in the news.  Another way of looking at this is by saying that other than the right wing echo chamber, there's no credible news organization reporting on this.  Bloggers - who sit in front of their computers in their boxer shorts - don't have the resources to verify the stories.  They simply repeat them.

This isn't a denial that Wisconsin legislators have received death threats.  It's probable that this is true.  What would be unusual would be a report of a liberal lone gunman, a mirror image of all the recent right wing nutjobs with guns.

[Conan71]

I'll save you the time Ed.  O'Keefe wrote it.  Right on the back of his script from the ACORN interviews 

[heironymouspasparagus]

Whoa, Conan!  Insight and truth in one small post!  This is wonderful.  I knew you could do it! Keep up the good work!

[Townsend]

Judge Issues Restraining Order To Block Collective Bargaining Bill

http://www.channel3000.com/news/27239147/detail.html

MADISON, Wis. -- A Dane County judge has issued a restraining order on Friday to block publication of the state's collective bargaining law.

Dane County District Attorney Ismael Ozanne filed a lawsuit on Wednesday accusing Republican legislative leaders of violating Wisconsin's open meetings law during the rushed run-up to a Senate vote on the measure last week.

The legislative committee that broke a political stalemate that had kept the law in limbo for weeks met without the 24-hour notice required by Wisconsin's open meetings law. The Republican majority voted last week to pass the legislation without Senate Democrats, who had left the state to block just such a vote. The Republican-controlled Legislature subsequently passed the measure and Gov. Scott Walker signed it last week.

The law can't take effect until it's formally published, and the Democratic secretary of state said he plans to wait the full 10 days allowed to publish it March 25.

Ozanne said he wanted a judge to block publication of the law so the case can be heard before the measure takes effect.

Judge Maryann Sumi had originally scheduled a hearing for Thursday morning, but pushed it back to Friday.

Ozanne said he has as many as 20 witnesses lined up.

[we vs us]

http://blog.seattlepi.com/morningeconomist/2011/02/21/citizens-united-may-prohibit-union-busting-by-states/

Interesting argument:  collective bargaining is a form of free speech per Citizens United; hence it's unconstitutional for government to attempt to limit it. 

[guido911]

Could the issue of Wisconsin not collecting union dues from PEUs really be the thorn in the union's side?

http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/118775974.html

[guido911]

I am going to hang out at dooshbag underground to watch the left's collective heads explode.

And here is the head explosions per Gibson's dramatic reading.

[Conan71]

The content was lost on me.  I feel bad saying what is on everyone else's mind, but I couldn't get over how gay John Gibson looks.  Are you sure he's not an Al Franken character? 

[guido911]

  Are you sure he's not an Al Franken character? 

[nathanm]

Is that a young Darrell Issa?

[Conan71]

That or Steve Carrell's pledge photo

[guido911]

Not Wisconsin but Indiana. This Indiana AWOL-er power doosh equates running from his job to a soldier going to Afghanistan.

[Townsend]

Not Wisconsin but Indiana. This Indiana AWOL-er power doosh equates running from his job to a soldier going to Afghanistan.

And the Bronx Zoo doesn't know how the cobra escaped.

[guido911]

Teacher charged after giving death threats to Rs in Wisconsin:

http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/news/119023079.html

[Townsend]

Teacher charged after giving death threats to Rs in Wisconsin:

Well obviously they're not listening to their constituents then.