Will unions repay the $7.5 million in repairs needed to the Wisconsin Capital Building after their protest?
by admin on Friday, April 15th, 2011 | 19 Comments
damage to the marble inside and outside the (Wisconsin) Capitol building where protesters have been camping out would cost an estimated $7.5 million to repair.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/20110304/ts_yblog_thelookout/cops-tackle-lawmaker-amid-layoff-threats-detention-order-tensions-still-running-high-in-wisconsin
Lol no. Liberal thugs do not clean up their messes. They always leave it for someone else to clean up after them
No.
I’m willing to bet the damage is closer to 7 hundred dollars than to 7 million.
OF COURSE NOT! It will come out of MY POCKET (16 year old high school student) and my parents pocket. My parents hardly make enough to provide for 6 people and now we’re going to have to pay for the damage done by idiots? I DON’T THINK SO!!
no but i think the tax payers should be pissed
No, the public workers will just force the private sector to pay more out of pocket to rebuild the Capital Building. I mean, why would public employees pay more for anything right? Just place the debt on someone else. See how successful that was for America already? One generation transfers their debt to the next and the vicious cycle continues as our economy falls.
I hope they take it out of the new contract.
When have liberal ever done the right thing?
that’s how much the governor gives in tax breaks to the rich
make them pay for it
They will just need to repeal some of the >100 million dollars they gave to businesses just before they try to kill the public employees unions. If they don’t have money, how could they afford to give the rich so much money?
They love making the taxpayers pay for stuff. So i doubt they will.
“Walker administration officials also appear to be working to discredit the mass protests, organized by unions and their supporters, that over the last few weeks have drawn outlandish comparisons to the popular uprisings that have toppled dictators in the Middle East. The state said that damage to the marble inside and outside the Capitol building where protesters have been camping out would cost an estimated $7.5 million to repair. Some observers questioned the reliability of that estimate.”
“Some observers questioned the reliably of that estimate.”
“Walker administration officials also appear to be working to discredit the mass protests”
Two + two =?
I think the answer is no since those estimates appear to be …a little…biased…
Look Man
we have the constipational right to protest – and you have the constipational right to clean up our mess
GOT IT
No
The greedy corrupt incompetent union thugs will never voluntarily pay for the damages
That would be a good issue for the State Attorney General to go after the greedy corrupt incompetent Union thugs and force them to pay for the damages.
Its one tactic that Republicans and union busters have used in the past, drag out false accusations, make them defend them in court and drain their treasury.
They did it with Clinton…that’s the reason behind all those multiple false accusations.
They did it with Obama and the endless frivolous lawsuits to prove he was a citizen.
Now they will do it with the unions, to silence them and allow them to do as they wish.
Your article also says there is a dispute as to the amount of the damage, and the costs of clean up and if they were even responsible. I’d like to see at least some before and afters, and when the rotunda was last cleaned before I’d just take that on face value.
No, since that number was pulled out of someone’s a$$.
Earlier in court, state officials said that damage from the demonstration to the marble inside and outside the Capitol would cost an estimated $7.5 million: $6 million for damage inside, $1 million for damage outside and $500,000 for additional expenses.
But the state provided no explanation for their figures or the kind of evidence that one expert said they would need for such a figure. (They said they supposedly came from an architectural expert, but they didn’t; Curran said she didn’t know how the state had arrived at its damage figures.)
Officials said in court that the damage came from tape used for posting fliers and papers and other materials. But DOA spokesman Carla Vigue said she could not immediately provide any detail about how state officials arrived at such a figure.
news quote: “Officials said in court that the damage came from tape used for posting fliers and papers and other materials.”
And putting tape on marble walls leads to 7.5 million in damages? Or crumbs on the carpet from food?
Tell another lie. I dare ya.
No Unions never pay for damages, it is deplorable and a very bad example for the children , Wi needs to prosecute any one who can be proven to have vandalized the building
no. they want someone else to fix it
Funny.