MotherJones AFL-CIO alleges that Walker & Wisc GOPers are welding windows shut at #wiuni

[1776Forever]

MotherJones
RT @AndrewKroll: AFL-CIO alleges that Walker and Wisc GOPers are having the windows welded shut at #wiunion protests in capitol

http://twitter.com/motherjones

[Bozita]

1. How about an alligator-filled moat?

Fort Koch-Walker?

[eleny]

3. Don't give him ideas!

[TheCowsCameHome]

2. This won't go over very well with safety officials

Walker has lost it.

[Bozita]

5. You gotta see this thread...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x529656

[malaise]

14. That's an understatement

He's fugged up big time. He's going to cost ReTHUGS all of 2012. I'm lovin' it. He will be a party pariah in no time.

[drm604]

4. Ed Schultz just announced this several minutes ago.

I have no idea if it's true. It sounds really over the top, but if it's true I guess we'll find out. It certainly sounds like a fire safety violation.

[Ian David]

6. There's something about that here...

RT @Adampdx: @MikeElk WI State Capital designated National Historic Landmark in 2001. Any welding would be federal crime. http://twitter.com/MikeElk/status/42315748365963264

RT @ddayen: Capitol Building Still Closed, Windows Welded Shut, Other Shenanigans http://bit.ly/ej9Cau #wiunion http://bit.ly/ej9Cau

RT @News3David: @evale72 why/how are they welding windows shut? Most window frames are wood. http://twitter.com/MikeElk/status/42302621075255296


* Name Mike Elk
* Location Mount Pleasant, DC
* Web http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mike-elk
* Bio Labor Journalist and third generation union organizer writing for Harper's Magazine, In These Times, and MichaelMoore.com.

[madrchsod]

7. welding window shut? i really doubt that.

you`d have to bring a welding truck or portable arc welding unit to the capital. then you could tack the windows shut but you could shatter the glass to to heat distortion. gas welding would be even worse. i doubt he could find a welding company in madison that would do this. after all-who`s going to pay and worse...does anyone think the welding company would ever get business again...?

sounds like a silly rumor but ya never know about walker.

[drm604]

10. I'm very skeptical.

It just sounds ridiculous and you give some good concrete reasons why it's unlikely.

[cali]

8. this story is evidently false

[eowyn_of_rohan]

9. NOT welding - BOLTING,and cutting off the bolt heads

-- illegal to do this to a Naional Landmark?
-- Fire Code violation?
--by what authority?
-- at taxpayers' expense?

[drm604]

11. What's your source? n/t

[eowyn_of_rohan]

12. Bolts screwed into sashes, preventing window opening. Bolt heads removed.

Isthmus newspaper journalist, Kristian Knutsen: Re: the Capitol windows...

"I was told that there is no welding going on, but that maintenance crews are entering bathrooms and applying bolts to windows",

Here are 2 pics:
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http://twitpic.com/show/full/44stml

[eowyn_of_rohan]

13. Bolting Windows like this violates City of Madison fire code

City of Madison fire code: All double-hun­g and sliding windows and doors below the second story and all other double-hun­g and sliding windows and doors accessible by balconies, fire escapes, trees or other existing means shall be equipped with approved window ventilatin­g sash fasteners to allow each window to be locked at one (1) to five (5) inches open. Such window ventilatin­g bolts or locks shall be movable to permit the window to be fully opened from the inside of the dwelling unit. (Am. by Ord. 10,192, 1-31-91)

I don't know if the Capitol is under jurisdiction of City of Madison fire codes

[Release The Hounds]

17. The Capital is exempt from building codes

Not sure about those fire codes though

[annabanana]

15. kicking for visibility. . . n/t

[Arkana]

16. I don't think this actually happened--they were replacing a bolt

in the women's bathroom on a window that's always bolted shut anyway.

[eowyn_of_rohan]

18. Do you have a source for this?

[1776Forever]

19. I think at the time everyone thought it was being welded. I read that is what happen later. n/t

[Arkana]

20. How do you weld a wooden window shut?

And wouldn't doing this be a massive, MASSIVE fire code violation anyway?