Wis. governor greeted at Washburn fundraiser by thousands of protesters

Source: Source: Duluth News Tribune

By: John Lundy, Duluth News Tribune

Wisconsin’s protracted family fight over the budget and public employee unions moved to this Bayfield County town Saturday evening, as embattled Gov. Scott Walker spoke at an invitation-only event and was greeted by at least 2,000 angry protesters outside.

Walker arrived in a convoy of six unmarked police cars that pulled up at 5:45 p.m. to the Steak Pit for a Republican Lincoln Day fundraiser. The large, boisterous crowd, which had been lining the streets leading to the restaurant since 4:30, quickly recognized him and erupted in boos and shouts of “Recall Walker.”

The convoy moved through quickly and without incident, and most of the protesters began to follow a circuitous route on public pathways to a spot behind the restaurant where they continued the protest within earshot of the Republican Party faithful inside.

Bayfield County Sheriff Paul Susienka said Saturday evening that he didn’t have a crowd estimate, but various people had estimated the size at between 2,000 and 5,000. So the protest probably at least doubled the size of Washburn, which has a population of 2,271.


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This happened YESTERDAY, while the Madison rally was going on, WAY up north in Wisconsin. Thought he could run and hide...so much for this claim that all the people against his bill were in Madison - the rest were on "his" side!

:yourock: :applause:

Wake UP Call ! !!: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnYDzJkXXVM

I hope he realizes what a fool he is

I'd like to see him booed and screamed at every place he goes. I hope he's never able to eat at a restaurant again.

I agree. I hope he can never show his miserable Koch-paid-for face in public again without the good people of Wisconsin harassing him. And I mean EVER.

keep up the good work wherever he appears.

The thugs don't DARE open it to the public! How CAN he walk into a restaurant like a normal person again?! LOL

Yet 5,000 (?) showed up to protest.

We need to do that to ALL the Regressives, each and every time they show up in public, in every state.
EVERY time.

To another Wisconsinite, keep up the fight!

every time the public can figure out where he's going to be. It happened at least 3 times in Eau Claire in the past 3 weeks, albeit with crowds of only 2-500.

Note: while Walker and his cronies were inside, that Washburn restaurant temporarily became The Snake Pit.

and it's not even that easy to get to - it's way out in the woods along the shore of Lake Superior. So it's awesome that almost twice the population of the town showed up to protest these assholes. In March!

(I've also eaten at the Steak Pit. Nice restaurant, good food.)

LOL - fantastic!

more than Madison. One question did Duluth Tribune mention the Madison rally anywhere in their paper?

And on the same day as the state hockey tournament, too!

of working families in Wisconsin. Thanks

A peninsula into Lake Superior in early march in little Washburn, WI and Scotty gets 5,000
people looking for a piece of him as he runs from Madison like a little boy ..... you gotta
love it.




BTW I had a friend @ the rally yesterday in Madison ..... don't buy the media story
200,000 + people were there

BTW part 2 ... click on the link and look @ the guy in the white beard and Carhart
coveralls looking for a piece of Scotty ...... :rofl:

I am so proud of Wisconsin.

I am so proud that our state is ramping it up like this...from the smallest towns to the capital city.

Oh, yeah, we are figuring out how to divvy up and make the a**hole suffer for his decisions. And all the other a**holes he hangs with.

It's wonderful to spend a morning turning the words of Walker's iconic hero against him.

Now that's the America I remember.

:yourock:

for the rest of his miserable public life.

Talk about government waste!!! :wow:

Adorn the motorcade up right for der Fuehrer Walker.

Does this bit of security overkill mean the cost of gov't in Wisconsin just went UP??? Walker said we'd really like the increased efficiency once his budget took hold. Now we know exactly what he was referring to.

I like it!

The Koch Bros need to be sent the bill.

all his BS about US having to make sacrifices. He is quite a piece of work.

... restaurants should go ahead and serve him up with a huge plate of smelly Limburger cheese whenever he frequents them, to remind him of the big stink that will follow him wherever he goes between now and his recall election!

Cheesehead is an affectionate name for Wisconsinites. He's not ours and I would like to give him back. He should give preacher's kids a bad name. (Preacher's kids that I've known have been kinda hot)

eeeew, sorry

:blush:

If the restaurant workers haven't done so already. Hahaha. Pass on the idea. That's what restaurant workers do. Walker will never dare go into a restaurant again. Should happen to the Koch Bros. too.

But, the truth is it is the nuclear option: only done to the worst of the worst.

Walker and the Kochs are just the kind to deserve the 'special sauce'.

I bet they support those unfair 'tipped employee' wages and are lousy tippers too.

He was/is a real a$$ too and there were a couple good ones I heard from people who worked at the Concourse Hotel and at the Edgewater (which he hated, but was forced to go on this particular day).

:evilgrin:

suddenly remembered this -- when the UW played in the Rose Bowl in 1994, and Tommmy of course was in L.A. for the game and one night was boozing/shmoozing at a Badger party. A reporter asked a guy in attendance which one was our governor - the guy pointed him out and the reporter said, "I should have known. I can tell that guy is full of shit just by looking at him"

We got a good laugh out of that one.:rofl:

was a one-letter typo? :)

Between now and your eventual recall. No forgiveness, no forgetting. Wherever you go, the sentiments of your constituents will follow.

He's toast ...on both sides.


I look forward to ousting his ass in January 2012

Maybe he'll crawl back into the sewer he came out of.

My heart resides on Madeline Island in Bayfield County. I need to get back there (maybe this summer).

Yes it is a very beautiful, special, friendly place year round! I do think summer would be better though! ;)

Besides, our house isn't really equipped to winter over.

Some of my favorite territory, the Chequamegon Peninsula.I was born & raised about 60 miles south of there. (Hayward.)

My friend and I couldn't decide whether to go all the way down to Madison or make the shorter Washburn trip. Madison was awesome, but now we're wishing that we had gone to Washburn.

wonder how easy it is to find out where he is making public appearances...To be able to hassle that goon face to face would be priceless.

should be protested at every public appearance all over the state until they are recalled.

was so glad I did. Walker seems to travel a lot. I am sure he will be in your locale soon as Duffy is one of his poodles.

Can't wait to picket the dope-eyed insect.

Duffy early on was with the Tea party although later he tried to dis associate himself from the movement.

http://solidaritywisconsin.com/content/dccc-attacks-duffywalker-fundraiser-washburn


DCCC attacks Duffy/Walker fundraiser in Washburn
by Steve Hanson | March 12, 2011 - 3:17pm

House Democratic strategists think Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) and his efforts to strip public sector workers of collective bargaining rights can be a potent issue in 2012 congressional races.

At the very least, they see Walker as an effective tool for energizing donors.

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) launched on Saturday an online campaign targeting Rep. Sean Duffy (R-Wis.) and Walker for “selling out Wisconsin workers.”.................

Hope it drives him CRAZY! :crazy:

Know that California's got your back! Give that mobster scumbag hell every time he's visible!

according to breaking news...spoke out on Manning's treatment.

I am fighting back tears and have goosebumps over video #1...What a beautiful sight

Great to hear Rep's Janet Bewley & Nick Milroy speak. So glad they are able to get a bit of sweet revenge for what the thugs did to them (and ALL OF US)...


YOU all made it happen. I wish I could have been there.

Now I'm watching the Stevens Point video - holee crap. I love Wisconsin... Feel like road-tripping all around our state now.

SOLIDARITY!
:yourock:

btw...I just happen to follow Shutterwi's blog...I wasn't there but I used to live there and have a great affection for those folks...

It was a great experience. A thing to be proud of. The official count is 2200 based on photos and videos. Now the small disclaimer. My son, his wife and their friends were all part of the team that pulled this large peaceful rally off with just three days of warning.

and John Byron Van Hollen (secret society member known to those of US that listen to whistleblowers)-what gave you the right to declare "...Obamacare is dead in Wisconsin...". We, the people sure as heck didn't. Btw, JB here's an old thread I started based on open sources that are among my growing network of friends.

Van Hollen attorney met with GOP officials before election suit (started 9-20-08)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3501560

One further note Mr. Van Hollen-I'd like to discuss "Tiny" with you and your staff along with my Congressman's Wisconsin Chief of Staff and several interested attorneys.

Is this some juicy news? :P

give a hint about "Tiny" ;)

thread helpful in bringing forth facts about JB that have been obscured due to extreme politicization here in corporate fascist backed Wisconsin "government".

Well, since you did say "please" let's say that Tiny represents the kind of thug Scott Walker acknowledged thinking about employing when he thought he was talking to David Koch. Tiny is a murderer and a human trafficker that walked away from a federal grand jury held in Milwaukee in 1970.

Let me get back to my question to you, please, was my old thread about John Byron Van Hollen of interest to you eowyn_of_rohan, or anyone else???

I know only that he was instrumental in voter suppression in the last potus election and that he should have been booted out over that...I'll go read now.

Oh yeah that's right. We don't have a news media.

K. R.

Or at least until he develops a conscience.

The Kochs will see to that. Also Murdoch; once he's done in Wisconsin (hopefully through recall), he will join Fox News. For sure.

was Cow Vat taken?

Seafood platter....wonderful
steaks ....wonderful
broiled lake trout ...wonderful...

now if they can just get the stench of the visitor out of the place.....

must be hounded to the point of suicide. Hopefully he'll eat the barrel of a 357 magnum during a press conference. It has happened before.

This made me sooo happy!

Working together for a common cause - sounds like a union!

:fistbump:

:kick:

better yet...POTATOES. Yelling and screaming isn't going to work. We have to leave a message.

.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJMwWtqYODU

Additional videos here: http://www.youtube.com/user/shutterwi?feature=mexp

When I first saw the 1st one i almost cried... What a great job you all did -

SOLIDARITY!

:fistbump:

for letting this guy know that the wonderful folks of Chequamegon Bay Region are still part of this state and just as fed up with him as the 100K that showed up in Madison. The "lesson" snotty Scotty should learn from this is there is no place in Wisconsin for him to hide.

I lived in Ashland for over 10 years and really miss you folks...

That we'll get over it!

You a bettin' man(?) there Scooter?

Good job Badgers!

I gotta get my eyes checked. And a new governor.

may have solidified it as the new "official name".

and some day they'll track him down hiding in a spider hole, gibbering jabbering insane.

This just makes my day - Good Goin', Wisconsin!

"...within earshot of the republican faithful" :rofl:

GO WISCONSIN!!! :D

n/t

Walker is out of his league and picked the wrong state to mess with.

GO, WISCONSIN!

K&R

And find out what Walker's "favor ability" numbers are in Wisconsin.
You know, how many people still think favorably of him, how many think unfavorably of him.

I'll bet his negative numbers are at least twice what his positive numbers are.

K and R