Green Bay protestors Rout Out Fitzgerald (as he tries to hide from them) -Woo Hoo!!

[eowyn_of_rohan]

Sat Apr 02, 2011 - Fitz's Two-stage Retreat from Green Bay
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/04/02/962959/-Fitzs-Two-stage-Retreat-from-Green-Bay

The tactics employed by Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald in Green Bay today to get out of a negative publicity situation didn't work on a crowd of Dave Hansen supporters who got advance word of the "o.k, we're gone now" crowd-dispersal ploy used previously in Green Bay by supporters of the Walker administration. Complacent local television media, dutifully present at the "recall Hansen" event Fitz had hoped to inspire, left before the real news unfolded.

The van assumed to be carrying the controversial Senate leader drove through an impressive gathering of protestors. However, Fitz wasn't onboard to face the gauntlet. Not yet.

A reporter got word from a Fitz staffer that the Majority Leader remained behind, (hiding) in a building with a few of his support staff while the entourage's van drove away.

...The bulk of the crowd Fitz was dreading to face, alerted that he remained behind, stayed in place this time. Our reporter caught Fitzgerald just as he was sneaking to his car near the back of the lot and pointed him out to the crowd, shouting, "Here's the weasel!", then told Fitzgerald point-blank that he was "owned by the Koch brothers" and that he was "ruining Wisconsin". As he got in his red car he asked with a matching reddened face, "Are you serious?"

Fitz got an earful of "shame" as his car worked it's way through the crowd of hundreds of pro-Hansen, anti-Fitzwalkerstan demonstrators who now closed in.

While Green Bay police cleared the way up front, a Kloppenburg sign somehow found it's way onto the rear window of the escape vehicle for awhile, until one member of the vastly outnumbered pro-Fitz entourage risked exposure to the swarming crowd to remove (it). :toast:

Police present at this second-stage of the departure of an obviously frustrated Senate leader were seen to crack a smile or two. They had little else to manage, as only words were thrown at Fitz's embarrassing retreat. They might really sting your ego, Fitz, but you'll get used to it soon.

[midnight]

1. Good story, but this part made me laugh out loud:

"While Green Bay police cleared the way up front, a Kloppenburg sign somehow found it's way onto the rear window of the escape vehicle for awhile, until one member of the vastly outnumbered pro-Fitz entourage risked exposure to the swarming crowd to remove the powerful talisman."

[eowyn_of_rohan]

6. My favorite, too!

Hopefully someone got a picture of that. I haven't find one online (yet)

[freshwest]

9. Me too!

:rofl:

[ladywnch]

14. that was good, but I personally liked, "here's the weasel" !!!

[ewagner]

2. can you believe

that even with receptions like this, Fitz and Walker still believe they are representing "the silent majority"?

delusional...

[Tippy]

3. Delusional...u betcha

[Jackpine Radical]

4. But Ed, they have thousands of loyal supporters all over the state…

and all we have is a ravening rabble consisting of a few million.

[ewagner]

7. ok...I get it...

they have the MAJORITYof those who SILENTLY WRITE CHECKS! :rofl:

[Jackpine Radical]

8. Egg

zackly.

[rustydog]

5. They do serve who they call the silent majority...Koch

It is so obvious and blatant it is almost comical.

[Omaha Steve]

10. He got out alive?

K&R!

[immoderate]

11. Having the sympathy of the cops seems to make a difference.

--imm

[eowyn_of_rohan]

12. Union SOLIDARITY

Why didn't it work this way in the 60's? Prob because the unions themselves weren't the subject of attack.

[immoderate]

13. Liberals were. Peaceful, anti-war, anti miltarist, a bunch of hippies!

--imm

[eowyn_of_rohan]

15. Peaceful until the cops started lobbing tear gas

and hitting with batons , etc.