Working People Protest Wisconsin Republican Governor’s Inauguration

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.laborradio.org/Channels/Story.aspx?ID=1337785

Working people protested the inauguration of Wisconsin's new Republican Governor on Monday. Jesse Russell reports from Madison:

Wisconsin’s Inauguration event in the capital city of Madison was hit with a protest of working people calling on the new Republican Governor, Scott Walker, to stick to his campaign promise and create 250,000 new jobs. Walker is off to a bad start in the state with many Wisconsinites holding him responsible for the death of an $810 billion federally funded high speed rail project that would have passed through the state and connected it to a Midwestern network. Walker’s strong opposition to rail and his unwillingness to negotiate led to the government pulling out the funding, killing an estimated 5,000 jobs that would have been created by it, and leaving the state with a $100 million tab that will likely need to be reimbursed to the federal government. Jennifer Epps-Addison traveled by bus from Milwaukee so she could speak outside of the capitol building where Walker was being sworn in.

: My grandmother with a third grade education sent her son to law school working in the factories in Milwaukee. Now there’s a different story and that story’s of hopelessness and joblessness with 50 percent unemployment in most of our neighborhoods. That’s the story the Governor needs to hear today.

[PeaceNikki]

1. sigh. We're screwed.

Yeah, sad day here in Wisconsin.

In Scott Walker's world, CEOs never make enough money, and there isn't a working person who deserves what he earns.

[madrchsod]

2. he appointed that woman to run the wisconsin DNR....

i hope that the people of wisconsin understand what this woman will do to their state. we do`t want polluted wisconsin water in northern il.

[PoliticAverse]

3. "$810 billion"!?

Apparently someone didn't proofread this article.