Whenever a few Tea Party members show up at any public event the media is always present. It never mattered that the tenets of the Tea Party contains mutually exclusive policy points. After-all, one cannot create a movement complaining about a duly elected government taking away ones freedom when they are in fact effecting policies they ran on.
Today’s movement is a real middle class movement of people protesting policies that will have immediate negative effect on their families, their schools, their jobs, and their health. Yet Charlie Sheen gets top billing on every newscast as there is little or no coverage of our fellow middle class brothers and sisters fighting to maintain a middle class life; struggling for the ability of attaining the elusive American dream. Corporate America cannot but fear this will become a contagion. It is the only plausible reason why real middle class rallies and protests get very little coverage by our corporate media. They’ve seen the Al-Jazeera effect in Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, & Libya. Now will our middle class step up? After-all don’t we have more freedom?
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Wisconsin Protesters Break Up GOP Congressman’s Town Hall Meeting In Governor’s
WASHINGTON — Protesters unhappy with Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s budget proposals forced a GOP congressman to shut down a town hall meeting on Monday in the governor’s hometown, demonstrating that state-level labor battles could become a liability even for Republicans at the federal level.
"This state is so (angry) at Republicans right now because they’re trying to shut down debate," yelled one protester at the meeting in Wauwatosa, which was being held in a town library. Other protesters responded with loud cheers.
While veteran U.S. Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner (R), who was at the meeting with GOP state Sen. Leah Vukmir, insisted that the meeting was open to everyone, a protester said, "You’re trying to shut down any response from these people who live in a free society." When Vukmir insisted that no one was trying to take away collective bargaining rights, the crowd shouted, "That’s not true!" and booed and hissed at her.
Sensenbrenner eventually said he was adjourning the meeting because attendees weren’t being respectful, which resulted in the unhappy crowd chanting, "Shame!"
Last month, more than 1,000 people marched to Walker’s home to protest his budget repair bill, which would strip collective bargaining rights from Wisconsin’s public employees.
Following Monday’s short-lived town hall, Sensenbrenner’s office released a statement decrying the behavior of the event’s attendees:
Congressman Sensenbrenner and the Wauwatosa library director repeatedly asked individuals attending last night’s Town Hall Meeting to be respectful as other patrons were using the library. After numerous requests for attendees to listen to the individual speaking and be mindful of other library patrons were ignored, the meeting was adjourned.
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Wisconsin Protesters Break Up GOP Congressman’s Town Hall Meeting In Governor’s Hometown