Teabaggers, Union supporters clash (verbally) at Ohio Statehouse

[cali]

Collective bargaining protestors, supporters clash at Statehouse
Thursday, February 17, 2011 10:48 AM
By Jim Siegel
The Columbus Dispatch

Well over 1,000 enthusiastic supporters and opponents of the Senate's proposed collective bargaining overhaul enveloped the Statehouse this morning with cheers of "kill the bill" and "yes on 5," prior to the latest hearing on Senate Bill 5.

The spacious Statehouse atrium was packed mostly with public union workers outraged at efforts to end collective bargaining for state workers and significantly weaken the ability for local workers to bargain for their pay, benefits and working conditions.

While a strong union presence was witnessed for the bill's first two hearings, they were joined today by more than 200 red-shirt clad tea party activists pushing for the bill's passage. The mix verbally clashed in the Statehouse rotunda, where the two sides did their best to drown out the other.

Meanwhile, the atrium had the feel of a rock concert or an Ohio State football game, as union supporters cheered loudly when Senate sergeants-at-arms led their leaders across the balcony and into the hearing room.


More than 50 witnesses are scheduled to testify today. The first dozen or so will be supporters, and then opponents, including police, firefighters and Ohio Highway Patrol troopers union leaders.

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[HereSince1628]

1. Good luck to them, I hope it stays peaceful

What the R's want is a reason to discredit the unions and union supporters.

[Raschel]

2. Teabaggers have verbal ability? I wonder what their retorts were?

[sakabatou]

3. Throat gutturals and chest pounding.

[FSogol]

4. Grammatically incorrect and poorly phrased, I imagine.

;-)

[roguevalley]

8. baaaaaaaaa! Moooooooo! (Most likely)

[Bandit]

5. 200 red-shirt clad tea party activists

At least they aren't brown shirts...:shrug:

[jdadd]

7. Someone passed out the red shirts,

before driving them down to the statehouse. Wouldn't want Gov Kocksucks brownshirts, mistaking them for the wrong side.

[disillusioned73]

6. The Tahrir squ. thugs have finally come out....

willful ignorance is a disease..