Wisconsin Supreme Court justice: Meatpackers aren't 'regular folks'

[turbinetree]

Source: American Independent



By Emily Singer -May 7, 2020 3:09 PM

Wisconsin judge Patience Roggensack is being slammed as an 'elitist' for her remark that meatpackers contracting coronavirus aren't like other people in the state.

The conservative chief justice of Wisconsin's state Supreme Court is under fire after she said this week that meatpackers in Wisconsin who have contracted the coronavirus aren't "regular folks" like other residents of the state.

Chief Justice Patience Roggensack made the comment during oral arguments conducted via teleconferencing on Tuesday in a suit brought by Republican lawmakers against Wisconsin Democratic Gov. Tony Evers' stay-at-home orders.

Wisconsin Assistant Attorney General Colin Roth, arguing on behalf of Evers, cited a surge in cases in Brown County as an example of why the orders were necessary. Roth said cases in Brown County "surged from just 60 to almost 800" over the course of two weeks. The outbreak was traced to the JBS Packerland meatpacking plant in the county, at which 300 workers were sickened by the coronavirus, according to the Green Bay Press Gazette.

Roggensack interjected.

"These were due to the meatpacking, though," she said. "That's where Brown County got the flare. It wasn't just the regular folks in Brown County."

Read more: https://americanindependent.com/wisconsin-supreme-court-meatpackers-regular-folks-coronavirus-patience-roggensack-covid-19/

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This is a fucking racist she is not a elitist nor is she ignorant she knew exactly what she meant........and she needs to be voted out........

[DBoon]

1. Let the meatpackers shut down and see how the "regular folks" like it

nt

[dalton99a]

2. "They're not our people"

[cos dem]

3. I'm sure she's on McTurtle's short list.

[NoMoreRepugs]

4. May she sit on a lit flare. What a f'en tool.

[sheshe2]

5. Yes.

Wisconsin judge Patience Roggensack is being slammed as an 'elitist' for her remark that meatpackers contracting coronavirus aren't like other people in the state.

A bigoted, racist very, very white judge, Patience ROTTENSACK just threw black and brown people under the bus. They are not like us, let them die.

I can't even.

[CaptYossarian]

6. She's 79 and has 5 more years left on her 10-year term.

Will she or won't she? Cons are egotistical and power hungry. She'll probably run again.

I'm sure we have another Jill Karofsky among our 5.7 million residents. That could flip the SC from conservative back to human.

[dalton99a]

10. I hope she meets an appropriate end very soon.

[CaptYossarian]

21. A sex scandal with Glenn Grothman when he mistakes her

for his mommy.

I'm kidding. Her vibrator has an antique license plate on it. (That's for you, Patience, if you're reading DU.)

[Evolve Dammit]

7. As Warren Buffet said: "It absolutely is class warfare. And we're winning."

Lets go back to 1890. Robber barons, no legal rights for women or people of color, a virtual caste society with immunity for the rich, above all else. Pence, Barr et al want this badly. This is not a test. This is real.

[The Mouth]

20. "They only call it 'Class Warfare'

when we fight back"

Woody Guthrie

Buffet really doesn't care who he bugs when he speaks what he thinks is the truth, gotta give him that.

[Evolve Dammit]

28. Buffet also said the Bush tax cuts would save him 136 million, and he didn't need it.

I respect honest statements.

[The Mouth]

29. Yeah. Having "Fuck you" money must be nice

He doesn't need to kiss anyone's ass.

Sad when the truth is shocking.

[CaptYossarian]

22. Let me translate for you:

In 2010, the Teabilly signs really meant, "We want our Apartheid back."

That was an overreaction to the first black president. The 20 times I watched Blazing Saddles tells me so. Just as the sheriff saved the town, President Obama saved our country.

And then the pendulum swung back to hell again.

[warmfeet]

8. K & R

[Yeehah]

9. Courts across the nation have been corrupted by republican scum

Liberals in every corner of the USA need to fight if we are going to save our country.

[turbinetree]

11. And its being done right now as we speak or type..............lets talk #Moscow Mitch...........

[mwooldri]

12. Her next assignment should be a meat packing factory.

Sometime this week. Work there for one shift.

[Pause]

13. Hammered dogshit

Who wants to buy meat packed in a plant with ongoing active virus spreading all over the meat the wrapping?

Not me, nor would any one I knw personally, but people are just too complacent and unaware of the facts on the ground.



Maybe we should just apply Tsung-Tsu's principle and never interrupt your enemies as they rush upon the sword

[riversedge]

14. This is an example of what we--here in Wisconsin have to put up with. damn

[Cryptoad]

15. I have never known a Republican who,,,,

was not a Bigot and/or a Hate Monger!

[AleksS]

16. Meanwhile, another WI Supreme Court justice

Meanwhile, another WI Supreme Court justice was connecting shelter-at-home orders with the Japanese Internment Camps in WWII.

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/05/05/politics/wisconsin-supreme-court-coronavirus-hearing-japanese-american-internment/index.html

In regards to the stay at home order, conservative justice Rebecca Bradley said:

"I'll direct your attention to another time in history, in the Korematsu decision, where the (Supreme Court) said the need for action was great and time was short and that justified, and I'm quoting, 'assembling together and placing under guard all those of Japanese ancestry' in assembly centers during World War II,"

WTF is wrong with these people????!!

[turbinetree]

18. They were "elected"..........and were bought and sold...............

[Talitha]

17. Some of these judges need to go stand by a window...

[atreides1]

19. An open window

At least ten stories above the street and then they need to lean out...

[Talitha]

23. Yep, that's the idea!

[rpannier]

24. Someone needs to remind her that the 19th century is over

[lark]

25. Recall her slavery approving ass, if possible.

She's making it sound like meatpackers are slaves and have no right to life. Get rid of this fascist repug.

[Judi Lynn]

26. She had such a kinder face just 7 years ago:

Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Pat Roggensack hopes outside money will bring victory for Walker’s future
By . / February 13, 2013

As the continuing John Doe investigation continues into Scott Walker’s sordid past and with the stealth activities of the current Republican-plagued Wisconsin Legislature quietly moving toward ALEC-driven mining laws, corporatized schools, anti-choice overstepping and other issues, there is a very important state Supreme Court race in the works with conservative Justice Patience Roggensack getting lots of money from outside Wisconsin. Some of the contributions include:

$2,050 from Alice Walton, a Wal-mart heir from Texas who has for years been one of the nation’s top donors to “school choice” campaigns.

$1,850 from Jim Walton, another Wal-mart heir from Arkansas who is a big donor to “school choice” campaigns.

$1,750 from Lynne Walton, still another Wal-mart heir from Arkansas who is a big donor to “school choice” campaigns.

$2,000 from Dick DeVos, a Michigan millionaire who has funded assaults on public education nationwide.

$1,800 from Betsy DeVos, another Michigan millionaire who has funded groups that attack public education, teachers and their unions.



While many are familiar with the antics of the Koch Brothers, the fabulously wealthy billionaire right-wing DeVos family is equally funding efforts to destroy environmental policies and regulations, eviscerate unions, defund and implode public schools and privatize social security. Promoting school vouchers to destroy public education is a main mission with Roggensack’s funders.

More:
https://scottwalkerwatch.com/2013/02/13/wisconsin-supreme-court-justice-pat-roggensack-hopes-outside-money-will-bring-victory-for-walkers-future/

[Marthe48]

27. Paraphrase from Shylock:

Hath not a (meatpacker) hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions; fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer as (regular folks are)? If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh?

And apologies to Shakespeare.