Wis. Official Backs Away From Claims Of Multi-Million Dollar Capitol Damage

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In an amusing footnote to the Wisconsin protests, a Walker administration official is now backing away from another official's dire warning that millions and millions of dollars in damage had been done to the Capitol over weeks of protests. Furthermore, it appears that no professional estimate has actually been done.

On Thursday, as part of the litigation over the state's attempts to restrict public access to the Capitol, the Department of Administration's legal counsel claimed that repairing the damage done to the building -- mainly from adhesive tape used to affix posters to the marble walls -- would add up to $7.5 million. However, it was not clear how these estimates were made.

On Thursday night, Dane County Judge John Albert ruled that the daytime restrictions on Capitol access must be lifted, while also ordering protesters to leave when the building closes at night. And now, the state's facilities administrator -- a former moderate Dem state senator who joined the Walker administration -- is backing away from those high cost estimates.

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/03/wis-official-backs-away-from-claims-of-multi-million-capitol-damage.php

[deutsey]

1. Remember when the Busheviks were claiming that Clinton staffers trashed the White House?

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[dragonlady]

2. If the official, Jeff Plale, hadn't lost in the primary

against now-Sen. Chris Larson, he probably would have been reelected, and very well might have refused to leave the state with the others, so the bill might have been passed and signed a long time ago. We'll never know how that might have played out, but it's another example of "elections have consequences."

[Tx4obama]

3. K & R n/t

[Hubert Flottz]

4. A passer by called 911 to complain about all that shit all over the

capitol building and the 911 operator told the upset caller, that it wasn't really real shit, it was just the republicans sitting around counting their abundant blessings, after class.

Never in the long, long history of clusterfukery, has their been a plague or pestilence, like these greed based republican scoundrels in office around the country. We are living through some very sad times to this day, because of the disaster that Bush II was. Since Bush the GOP has gotten even more greedy.

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5. K&R

[Hannah Bell]

6. big fat liars. all they have is lies that can't stand up to a moment's scrutiny.

they keep lobbing propaganda volleys to test which ones will stick -- but the public isn't buying.

a step too far, walker, can't wait to see you chased out of the capital with your tail between your spindly proto-fascist legs.