WI AFL-CIO blog: Educators Asked to Leave Walker Press Conference on Education?!

[highplainsdem]

This is on both the WI AFL-CIO blog

http://wisaflcio.typepad.com/wisconsin-state-afl-cio-blog/2011/03/educators-asked-to-leave-press-conference.html

and the national AFL-CIO blog:

http://blog.aflcio.org/2011/03/31/educators-asked-to-leave-walker-press-conference-on-education/

03/31/2011
Educators Asked to Leave Walker Press Conference on Education?!



Stan Johnson, Sid Hatch and Mike Langyel were surprised when they were asked by Governor Walker staff representatives and the Milwaukee police department’s professional performance division to leave a press conference this afternoon on education reform

"I wanted to hear first hand what the Governor had in plan for education reform since these changes will directly affect the Milwaukee teachers,” said Stan Johnson, Executive Director of the Milwaukee Teachers Education Association. “We heard there was going to be an announcement about education; we wanted to be able to understand the details of that plan so we went to the conference, only to be asked to leave by one of Walker’s staff and the Milwaukee police."

Dozens of community members protested outside of Hope Christian School in Milwaukee today. All had gathered to participate in the press conference to learn more about education reform but were denied that right.

“The Governor is giving a press conference on education yet he won’t let any educators in, said Mike Langyel President of the Milwaukee Teachers Education Association. “It just doesn’t make sense. One of the values of Wisconsin is openness from our elected officials and letting constituents take part in democracy. Today, that right was denied.”

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[Angry Dragon]

1. I believe it will take arrests and deaths to make the

Regressive Party hold to the letter of the laws of this country..........

[roguevalley]

9. agreed. I am waiting for some despairing young person to light

themselves on fire on his front yard, the fucker.

[Bandit]

13. Bet they would get out the marshmellows if that were to happen

They are the most heartless bastards I have ever known about in any State government..

[cui bono]

2. Reccing to get this BACK on the greatest page. Who would unrec this??? Hmmm...

[madrchsod]

6. paid trolls

[freshwest]

12. Yup, they be here. No reason to knock the union on DU. Discuss, yes. Unrec, no.

[Dappleganger]

3. Fascist prick who can't handle opposition to his face.

[sharp_stick]

5. Pretty much

the standard of the modern Republican party.

Ike Eisenhower is spinning so fast in his grave that he's producing measurable heat.

[bindelh]

4. K&R

They must be attempting to create a situation that ends in violence so that he can point the finger and say "SEE, they are violently opposed to changes for America."

These tactics would shame Russian Party Bosses.

[glinda]

7. What was the investigative division doing there? And why did they act like an army?

[progressoid]

8. Education reform press conference at a private Christian school

That sounds about right. :banghead:

[corpseratemedia]

10. Walker's Putsch

modeled after AH

good ol' fascism

[louslobbs]

11. It makes perfect sense, Walker lives in a Dicktatorship in his mind and not the reality of our

Democracy......this is a sick, unhinged person trying to destroy Wisconsin for his Koch/GOP/FOX masters. Why doesn't that judge let him cool his heels in jail for a few days for contempt of her court orders?
Lou