This is just so upsetting...
http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/news/121274024.html
Washington -- A group of Wisconsinites with disabilities vowed Wednesday to keep protesting the Ryan budget after many of them were arrested this week demonstrating in congressional office buildings.
“Rep. Ryan is going to be seeing us again sooner or later … We aren’t going away,” said Jerome Holzbauer, a retired Milwaukee schoolteacher who has cerebral palsy.
Holzbauer was arrested Monday with 90 others from Wisconsin and other states while protesting Ryan’s proposal to convert the Medicaid entitlement into block grants to the states. The group had occupied the rotunda of the Cannon House office building.
A smaller group of 10 was arrested Tuesday after occupying the front room of Ryan’s office in the Longworth office building for several hours, chanting and yelling.
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Ryan staffers met with the protesters Monday in the Cannon building and spoke to them as well in Ryan’s office Tuesday, though the protesters failed in their effort to secure a meeting with Ryan himself. Glozier said his group left Ryan's office voluntarily after Ryan aides declined to have them removed, then were arrested in the hallway. 
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