The odd argument from the right wing in Wisconsin goes something like this; Republicans won, the people spoke, we have a free pass to do anything we want, resistance is futile and…protesting is un-American. Governor Scott Walker, the Fitzgerald clan, and DOA lackey Mike Huebsch, have decided to make the cost of protesting peacefully so high, that penny pinching conservative taxpayers will decide that their fellow voters should shut the f*** up. It says that somewhere in the constitution, I’m sure of it.
Keep in mind the family protests around the Capitol, with sheriffs, police and fire fighters supporting their teachers and labor rights, were peaceful. The following over reaction is stunning:
Jsonline: Capitol police are working with state and local agencies to plan for the possibility that large crowds will again descend on the Capitol as the Legislature considers Gov. Scott Walker's budget bill. Jodi Jensen, executive assistant to Administration Secretary Michael Huebsch, said that "law enforcement agencies are aware of the possibility that the Capitol police will request assistance" if large groups of protesters show up in Madison. Huebsch instituted the Emergency Police Services system. That system authorizes the state Division of Emergency Management to contact local law enforcement agencies to provide assistance. More than 200 law enforcement agencies provided officers for security at the Capitol.
The bill to pay law enforcement officials from all over the state cost taxpayers at least $7.8 million.
In typical “upside down, down the rabbit hole logic,” Republicans are unapologetically having it both ways; warning of another episode of “chaos at the Capitol” and poking the Democrats by suggesting interest is waning.
Republican lawmakers are skeptical of turnout.
"I think a lot of the enthusiasm has waned," Sen. Glenn Grothman (R-West Bend) said. "But there will always be a lot of people in Dane County who think the rest of the state is the cow and they are the farmer."
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