Wisconsin Tea Party Activists Weigh In on State Employee Protests, Discover Measures to Recall Lacking Democratic Senators
Some Wisconsin doctors threw their help behind teachers protesting the Republican governor’s efforts to strip unions of their bargaining powers, declaring they’d compose sick notes for teachers to skip work to demonstrate.
The union protesters have been picketing the state capitol in Madison for five days, angered by Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed bill, which has the backing from the Republican controlled state Senate.
The Madison College District has stated teachers who call in sick to protest won’t be compensated, but a group of licensed Wisconsin medical doctors came towards the capitol currently stating they would create a physician’s notice for anyone who asked.
Dr. Kathy Oriel instructed 4VF.net affiliate WKOW-TV in Madison that the doctors realize they might get in trouble for their provide.
“We think its worth the danger,” she stated. “Teachers don’t have any option.”
The doctors advised WKOW-TV that they’re acting on their own, not in connection with any hospitals or organizations, nonetheless they said the notes are legitimate.
The demonstrations heated up these days, when thousands of supporter’s of Walker’s bill — many of them bused in by tea celebration groups — raised their voices versus opponents outside the state capitol.
Regardless of the influx of supporters, pro-union activists had been in the bulk in the dueling rallies in Madison as nearly 70,000 persons filled the square outside the capitol building. Tea celebration members’ voices were additional to the chorus of dissent within the fifth day of the massive, peaceful protests.
Walker supporters chanted “Pass the bill! Pass the bill!” as pro-union picketers shouted back “Kill the bill! Destroy the bill!” Tea party protesters carried indicators studying “Your Gravy Train Is Over … Welcome towards the Recession” and “Sorry, we’re late Scott. We function to get a dwelling.”
As the five-day old demonstrations escalated, tea party groups pledged to begin recall efforts against the 14 Democratic state senators whose absence has left the legislature without having a quorom, preventing Walker’s bill from coming to a vote.
