Scott Walker Met With Protesters Outside Illinois Event

Patch.com:

With chants of “Union busting is disgusting” and “Hey, hey, ho, ho, Scott Walker’s got to go,” more than 200 union members from Illinois and Wisconsin lined the entrance to a suburban Chicago hotel Friday evening where the Wisconsin governor was speaking.

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Comments

[Eidolas]

11:00 AM on 04/23/2012

Just further proof that the effort to recall Walker are largely driven and directed by out of state union interests. For all the talk about outside money funneled to Walker, the same is equally true of the Democrats. The whole recall was predicated on the collective bargaining issue, which the Dems are abandoning as a campaign message. Even the unions are pulling their TV money from the Falk campaign as she is trailing Barrett by double digits. They know they have lost that collective baragining issue with the majority of the Wisconsin electorate.

[kinogod]

08:50 AM on 04/23/2012

The media stopped doing their job years ago, now it's just postings - and articles and "stories of interest" with zero paid to research and discovery.

[crazyalice]

08:31 AM on 04/23/2012

when will the media start calling him on his lies. they enable him. whatever happened to fact checks? if not for grassroots protests he would have a blank check of power. thank goodness for the movement!

[left handed independent]

07:38 AM on 04/23/2012

IS IT JUNE 5TH YET?

[Sisa]

07:10 AM on 04/23/2012

Walkers plan is simple ... Imagine your a homeowner with a mortgage... You decide that you are no longer going to buy food, pay for heat, water and electricity, or go to the doctor. Then you strip all the copper tubing and electrical wire you can get your hands on and sell it all for scrap along with the windows and doors. All to you pay off your home in two years. Yay! In the meantime you failed to notice that your family has met their demise and that you are left with a useless empty shell of a home... That's Scott Walkers Wisconsin.

[Sisa]

07:03 AM on 04/23/2012

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from THE CONSENT OF THE GOVERNED— That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. BUT WHEN A LONG TRAIN OF ABUSES AND USURPATIONS, pursuing invariably the same object EVINCES A DESIGN TO REDUCE THEM UNDER ABSOLUTE DESPOTISM, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. —it's time for their RECALL !!!

[ArmyCSM]

03:37 AM on 04/23/2012

I salute those who greeted the soon to be Ex-Governor.

[LameDuckHunting]

09:44 PM on 04/22/2012

In light of the upcoming Wisconsin recall elections, I would like to take a moment here to remind the 1% that there are no refunds or exchanges on purchased politicians. Even if you've kept the receipt................................

[jackdablues]

11:22 PM on 04/22/2012

Especially on clearance items.

[idisVA]

09:11 PM on 04/22/2012

Just like the rest of the Republican candidate in 2010, Scott Walker ran on fiscal responsibility and job creation. After he was elected, his first action as Governor was to give tax cuts to his buddies who financed his campaign, thus creating an immediate deficit. ( He was handed over a State that was in surplus). Today, the State of Wisconsin will have a balanced budget, thanks to federal housing monies that should have gone to assist home owners devastated by the housing crisis. And Wisconsin is #1 in job losses for 18 consecutive months. Thanks to Scott Walker.

[idisVA]

09:06 PM on 04/22/2012

He's is clearly the most divisive and polarizing politician in America.

[rawresolve]

09:01 PM on 04/22/2012

Every time I see this guy I feel embarrassed for the decent people who live in Wisconsin.

[TS69]

06:37 PM on 04/22/2012

I love to see peaceful protest and peoples voices being heard.

Sc0tt has ignored his constituents to advance his masters plan, he will be ousted soon enough.

[CPAwADD]

06:03 PM on 04/22/2012

Almost as ugly a welcome as he gets from the bathroom mirror every morning.

[USAmama]

05:16 PM on 04/22/2012

I am self employed, and I do not have the luxury of owning a pension. My understanding is that the state of Wisconsin cannot continue to function under the costs of the pension plans. The same goes for businesses who are controlled by Unions. Maybe I am confused but if the money isn't there, it isn't there. Shouldn't you just be thankful to have a job? Or would you rather have no job, and no pension? Sorry folks, but the math just doesn't add up. And, this is the Governor's fault? People, you can't squeeze money out of a rock.

[Ginger23]

05:25 PM on 04/22/2012

The Wisconsin Retirement System is 100% funded and self-supporting.

If you don't have a pension, it's your own fault.

"Shouldn't you just be thankful you have a job?" - Stuff it.

[jackdablues]

11:41 PM on 04/22/2012

Why the hate against middle class people who have earned their way in this world but none for the oil men and bankers that pay little to nothing to help the country that has allowed them to amass enormous wealth much of it tax payer subsides or corporate welfare?

[USAmama]

02:10 PM on 04/23/2012

Being self-employed does not give you the luxury of a pension. All money saved is money we have earned.

[bastalready]

05:29 PM on 04/22/2012

You need to do a little homework about public pensions in Wi.

[TS69]

06:34 PM on 04/22/2012

it would requiring reading, doubtful that will happen anytime soon

HI Basta!

[demwolf]

04:45 PM on 04/22/2012

This guy ran ads in Illinois for Illinois companies to move their businesses to Wisconsin. The Chamber of Commerce welcomed him with open arms at a speech in Springfield, IL. They should also be protesting along with the unions that would have lost those jobs if the companies had moved. Luckily they did not so Wisconsin has lost over 20,000 jobs since Walker became governor. Illinois has gained over 100 thousand.

[Tim Moore]

06:49 PM on 04/22/2012

Walker was also protested in Springfield. And basically everywhere he tries to peddle his ill-conceived wares.