SEIU Protesters Disrupt Ohio Senators’ Dinner, Accost Restaurant Workers
- Posted on March 4, 2011 at 5:18pm by
Meredith Jessup
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Ohio’s fight over collective bargaining spoiled dinner for a number of Republican state lawmakers Wednesday evening.
Easy Street Cafe
Following the state Senate’s vote to limit the bargaining power of public employees, a group of union protesters burst into a local eatery and confronted a small group of GOP senators who were having dinner. The Columbus Dispatch reports:
After the vote on Senate Bill 5, seven Republican senators, including President Tom Niehaus, R-New Richmond, grabbed dinner at the Easy Street Cafe. As the lawmakers neared the end of their meal, a group of five to 10 union supporters angry about the passage of the bill hours before burst into the restaurant and began shouting.
The commotion eventually led to pushing and shoving with the restaurant staff and owner, before police arrived to calm the situation as a police helicopter hovered overhead. No senators were involved in the physical altercations, and no charges have been filed.
“It could have (gotten physical),” said Sen. Frank LaRose, 31, a Fairlawn Republican who served as a Green Beret. “The group was agitated and they were shoving the owner, and he had nothing to do with this.”
LaRose said it didn’t take special intelligence training to notice that while the lawmakers were eating, a woman walked past the window several times, poked her head in the door and got on her cell phone.
“It was planned,” LaRose said. “They gathered as a group and waited until they had about 10 people before they caused a disturbance.”
When the group burst into the restaurant, the woman, Monica Moran, deputy director of public affairs for SEIU District 1199, raised her hands in the air, yelled “Can I have your attention?“ and then shouted ”something nasty,” LaRose said. Soon after, the rest of the group of men and women joined in with a chant.
Restaurant owner George Stefanidis says police came after the protesters refused to leave. Witnesses said Stefanidis and his restaurant staff tried to hold the group back from the senators, but the altercation got heated when the agitators began pushing and shoving.
“They stormed through my dining room,” Stefanidis said. “I told them they had to leave, and they wouldn’t. There were about 70 people in the restaurant at the time.
“I understand [the protesters'] argument, but they should do that some other place,” he added. “It just ruined the whole night.”
Moran, however, was unapologetic about the ambush. “The moment of discomfort Senate Republicans may have felt as a result of my expressing my opinion pales in comparison to the extreme discomfort and financial hardships that public employees will endure as a result of SB5.”
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Comments (395)
Volsense
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 5:49pmWhen you have the president inciting you “to get in their face” this is just the start of the escalation. The GOP are notorious cowards when the pressure is applied and thugs sense the fear. The calls for violence are starting to be more common.Christie, Kasich and Walker are the keys holding the labor movement in reasonable check.
Report Post »turgon
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 5:49pmSo the instigators comments were basically “the ends justify the means”
Report Post »thejackal
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 5:48pmPathetic lazy public sector hacks…. Public employees do SQUAT for work and are WAY overpaid. Instead of making public sector jobs 1/3 more lucrative than private sector jobs I think the taxpayers should unite and make then 1/3 LESS than private sector counterparts. Fire all of the lazy, fat pos’s.
Report Post »dawg of gawd
Posted on March 5, 2011 at 9:05am1/3 is it? I believe number you’re looking for is $2500 PER YEAR.
Now, go back and do your best to put on your thinkin’ cammo cap, maybe douse yourself in some deer urine, go sit in a tree stand and be reeeeeaaaaaal quiet. Some innocent defenseless woodland creature will come along soon enough, and you can shoot it from a safe distance while concealed behind the the cover of nature’s canopy. then you can waddle up and have your picture taken holding its dead head in your hands. Then, of course, leave it to rot because your’e too effing lazy to field dress it and haul it out.
Oh, sorry, was that unfair?
Report Post »mdlwoods
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 5:48pmAgain, who are the violent ones here? It ain’t the TEA Party! WAKE UP, AMERICA!
Report Post »AZBOB
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 5:48pmWatch the main stream media ignore this.
Report Post »vennoye
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 10:04pmWhat Main Street Media? They now only read the NY Times and report on what it says IF it is bad about Republicans, conservatives or Tea Party……..otherwise they are either getting hair cuts, shoe shines or manicures!!
Report Post »Mil Mom
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 10:30pmIgnore WHAT?
Report Post »MSM
Brontefan
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 5:48pmThese Union thugs who come out to protest..do so with “a little bloody” violence or at least they like to incite violence. They have invaded Tea Party Patriot rallies… and like to throw their weight around. I truly enjoyed seeing how much the Union leaders made and how much they donated to the Democratic party. They are one of the biggest lobbyist in DC and they don’t represent the folks.
Report Post »Beware of Romans
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 5:46pmMousellinis Socialists had their ‘Black’ shirt thugs.
Hitlers Socialists had their ‘Brown’ shirt thugs.
Obamas Socialists have their ‘Purple’ shirt thugs.
History repeating…
Report Post »LimoDavid
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 5:45pm“Public employees?“ Did she say ”Public employees?” You mean they work for us? The public? If so, then she needs to be worried about what her employer, THE PUBLIC, is going to say on her next job performance review. Since a majority, a VAST majority, are members of the PUBLIC, but NOT members of a union, she and her cohorts better start treating her BOSS with just a tad more respect. Same thing with cowardly elected officials.
Report Post »Liberty7
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 5:43pmAnother example of “fundamentally transforming the United States of America.” Thanks for all the attention Barry.
Report Post »RED-DAWN
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 5:38pmWould have had to mop the floor with a few of them, the guys that is, would never mop with a female. After all, they are the SEIU, they know what it means to clean a floor….THUGS
Report Post »338lapua
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 8:41pmMakes you mad, does it not? Toilet monkeys are making senators quake! Not what the founding fathers envisioned.
Report Post »encinom
Posted on March 5, 2011 at 12:13amWhy do tea-baggers bend over for their corporate masters? Do you Tea-Baggers enjoy taking Koch up the @$$?
Report Post »Instead of standing with patriots you are standing with tin pot dictators and their rich backers out to destroy the middle class.
roofster
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 5:37pmWhere’s the outcry about civility and angry vitreol from the mainstream media?
Report Post »TERMLIMITSNOW
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 7:21pmthey’ve come to snuff the roofster………….oh yeah
Report Post »JohnQTaxpayer
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 5:36pmThey want a response to justify what they are planning to do in the future
Seiu “we had no choice but to defend ourselves”
Do not give them what they want, let them beat each other in frustration
Report Post »338lapua
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 8:37pmAgreed, you are on the right track.
Report Post »anigmanm
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 5:36pm“The moment of discomfort Senate Republicans may have felt as a result of my expressing my opinion pales in comparison to the extreme discomfort and financial hardships that public employees will endure as a result of SB5.” How about the discomfort of the other patrons of the restaurant, the discomfort and physical pain caused to employees, how about any money lost to the owner of the business caused by these self centered myopic minions of stupidity………….Oh yea if forgot with the Union it is and always be about their wants, their demands, no matter how unrealistic or dangerous to others, they the union people apparently believe the rest of the world exists to cater to their greed…………..sorry I do not agree with them, not now not never.
Report Post »Gozer the Carpathian
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 6:04pmThat’s what I thought! Who cares about the legislators feelings, they’re prepared for this crap. Joe blow and his family weren’t! Let alone the innocent owner! For crying out loud ruined his night indeed! Bloody union crap.
Report Post »Mil Mom
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 10:25pmHow about the discomfort of the other patrons of the restaurant, the discomfort and physical pain caused to employees, how about any money lost to the owner of the business caused by these self centered myopic minions of stupidity…
Report Post »**************
In war that’s called “Collateral Damage” Remember how infuriated the Left was when Gen’l Tommy FranKs used the term in one of his briefings?
mrclean
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 5:36pmMore immature BS from the left. While they’re stupidly causing their own ruination by these antics, no one should be forced to put up with this disgusting and disrespectful behavior.
File charges! Disturbing the peace, if nothing else…
Report Post »Psychosis
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 5:35pmwhy no charges??? disturbing the peace at the minimum would have been the least charge filed and rightfully so
stop letting these hooligans get away with this crap or they will just push harder until people stand up and hold their ground
its just like the bully that wont quit till the skinny little nerd bloodies his nose
Report Post »338lapua
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 8:34pmAs we have learned here in Wisconsin, there is no one to do the policing. The cops are in on it, the courts are in on it, the thugs will bust your head(or your business) if you so much as serve the “enemy”.
Report Post »Folks, we are on our own. The only way out is to convince the malevolent to feed on themselves. It can be done, but to stay true to our(conservative) beliefs it needs to be done carefully and thoughtfully. Research what they do,find out who does it(by name), and find the weakness in that person. Personalize it. All have weaknesses,do not let your anger blind you. Do not do something you cannot live with down the road. Be true to your beliefs. Now is when the weak fold up shop and run to another state. Be smart and capitalize on the weakness that is inherent in immoral behavior. Not the same in everyone, but similar.
teachermitch32
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 5:32pmNo shirts, no shoes….no service! thugs, pushers, being generally a loud, obnoxious, rude ….no service. Picketing or protesting my patrons…..no life. Should be posted in the future.
Report Post »BIGJAYINPA
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 5:32pmHow much longer before someone really gets hurt? It is bad enough that these Union thugs feel free to terrorize innocent people, but to have our so-called officers of the law tanding by and doing nothing is even worse. The Union thugs are only being what they are, brain dead muscle for the bosses, but the Police have supposedly taken an oath to uphold the LAW not their Union brotherhood. Shame on any so-called police officer that turns his back on this atrocity.
Report Post »drbage
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 7:21pmUnortunately, sounds like the Columbus authorities are pulling an Obama/Holder and only enforcing those laws that they like. Let’s see if we can get Jake Flapper to ask Obama if this action and ones in Madison are what he was talking about with his call for “civility.”
Report Post »338lapua
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 8:51pmUmmmm, I like your post. Here is one way we are lighting up the union world here in the battle ravaged but still standing REPUBLIC of Wisconsin. The Law enforcement benevolent organizations are begging right now. I have put them on notice that not only are they not getting any money today, they won’t get any money for any of their affiliated organizations. Basically they are poison until they sit their *sses down and do their jobs. To serve and protect and not just those who agree with them. DO NOT DO THIS ALONE. This will only work in concert with as many others as you can muster. We are two businesses, and we involved close to a hundred others before we did this.
Report Post »Scarab Sport
Posted on March 5, 2011 at 3:32amI am not an expert on history. However, all of this stuff with the unions sounds like the brownshirts in Germany prior to Hitler taking control. The scary thing is the Obama administration is encouraging the unions to fight and is completely ignoring the right of Wisconsin to govern themselves. Obama’s administration encouraging the thugs will only embolden them especially if they are not arrested for their illegal actions by the unionized police. No conspiracy theory here? However, the whole thing stinks.
Report Post »clearasabellnow
Posted on March 5, 2011 at 4:58pmAs much as I question why there were no arrests in this incident, I think I’ll reserve judgement until I have more information. I am not an officer of the law, so I don’t know what violations, if any, transpired. That said, I think this behavior is unconscionable, and would love to see unions abolished, then we won’t have to wonder any more.
Report Post »inexiletill2012
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 5:30pmYou ain‘t seen nothin’ yet
B-B-B-Baby, you just ain‘t seen nothin’ yet
Here’s something that you never gonna forget
B-B-B-Baby, you just ain‘t seen nothin’ yet
(wait till the election gets closer)
Report Post »123gone
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 5:29pmSounds like Moran needs to spend a few months in jail.
Report Post »ozchambers
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 5:49pmThis guy is an embarrassment to my home state. We tossed a bunch of these idiots to the curb, but this weasel slipped thru the cracks. Keep yapping Moran. You’ll be ousted next election.
Report Post »My Two Cents
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 6:13pmIt also sounds like the Columbus cops are a bunch of eunuchs.
Report Post »Mil Mom
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 10:11pmSounds like Moran needs to spend a few months in jail.
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Report Post »The article identifies her as Deputy Director of Public Affairs for SEIU, in days gone by, that was “Press Agent”, since when do those things actually do the organizing of protests. Are the Unions having to save a little money, to bankroll their protests, that their workers have to perform in more than one capacity? (( Hey isn’t that something their contracts all forbid? ))
joefboschsr
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 5:28pmOne of the reasons America is great is because we have a way to change what we dont like Peacefully. All the unions have to do is get control again. They must have forgotten the way the got power the first way. Quietly. I feel we have some rough times ahead.
Report Post »C. Schwehr
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 6:58pmYou don’t understand the union mentality…they lost power….they NEVER lose power. Either they elect their own puppets or bash heads, but they NEVER lose power!
Report Post »338lapua
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 8:22pm@c.schwehr……stay strong. Take a moment to think, clearly. Thugs have a weakness, several actually, but one really glaring one. Think,Think, Think. Let them bash THEIR OWN heads in, give them time, when things are going bad, thugs cannibalize. Retribution is expected……on their own. The trick is to find connections. Close connections, really close connections. Get it. Do your research on these folks, by name. Connect the dots. Everyone has a weakness.
Report Post »michael48
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 5:27pmclassy…very classy….Think the DEA needs to take a gander at what’s in that “Omama” snake oil…had the same problems in San Fran in 67′….hmmm…probably the same crowd….
Report Post »BCNU
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 5:40pmI was in San Francisco in 1967 too……worked at Hunters Pint Naval Shipyard. Almost needed a police escort to enter/depart the shipyard. The hippies seemed to have come out of the woodwork and overwhelm the city overnight…….bad times.
Report Post »michael48
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 6:38pmwas there in Uniform…US Army…dam near got combat pay…wet tulips sting like hell…
Report Post »BCNU
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 7:00pmPresidio??
Report Post »I hated San Francisco but Hunters Point the job offer after my Dec ‘66 discharge from the USAF. Hats off to all Sailors…..this former airman HATED working on ships.
CaptainSpaulding
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 5:26pmThese thugs (SEIU) run our nation.
Thus is life in Obamaland.
Report Post »apollo18
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 6:52pmTHIS is a preview of a “Socialist Amerika”.
Report Post »338lapua
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 8:42pmSeiu……Toilet monkeys
Report Post »TEXASQUINN
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 5:25pmSEIU is no different than the mob…they threaten people,carry out physical abuse and extort money from tax payers / private business owners!
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 6:03pmSEIU IS the mob!
Report Post »barbaraw62
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 6:10pmSounds alot like ACORN tactics! That group did the same to bankers — intimidating them into making unsound loans and thus the Housing crisis… They are trying to take this country down … and into revolution!
Report Post »338lapua
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 8:12pmWhat do all mobsters have in common…….what weakness do they share…….think about that. Exploitation of a primary weakness(shared by all) will bring them down. Watch Wisconsin. We figured something out. These schmoes did the same crap here, and they made a series of really sloppy mistakes. Germans have a word for it…..I can’t spell in German but phonetically it is shoddenfreud. Keep an eye on us , I can’t tell exactly when all the pieces will come together, but judging from what they are doing it will be soon.
Report Post »Silverline
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 9:33pmv
Report Post »Mil Mom
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 9:59pm@Showtime
Report Post »Posted on March 4, 2011 at 6:03pm
SEIU IS the mob!
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And their blessed unholy union was consumated by the buying of the White House. Now we’re dealing with the offspring.
GeneralBeasley
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 5:23pmthe nazi noodle workers are spreading.
Report Post »TEXASQUINN
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 5:28pmNah, they are flailing because they are drowning! We have em on the run!!!!
Report Post »RLTW
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 6:01pmNo matter how they frame it solidarity with socialists is not the same as Uniting with Patriots.
Report Post »thepatriotdave
Posted on March 6, 2011 at 12:52amSEIU = Modern Day Stormtroopers
I hope all their BS backfires on them and they find themselves losing support across the board. They have become the poster-child for Anti-Americanism.
http://www.americasteapartynews.com
Report Post »matt708
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 5:22pmwhat a bunch of thugs. We should go to thier house and protest against them and their demands
Report Post »Beware of Romans
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 5:25pmSign me up!
Report Post »BuckOfama
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 5:28pmAbolish unions and put the thugs in prison, with 3 hots and a cot they will have no need for anything else…..
Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 5:28pmInteresting that they are getting bolder with their tactics; I pray that they will not turn violent yet somehow I feel that they will. Just a matter of time until someone cuts loose, then all hades will be set loose upon the conservatives by the administration and the leftists and anarchists of the land.
silentwatcher
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 5:32pmShoving match going on and it wasn’t considered physical? Created a disruption and refused to leave the eatery? NO ARRESTS MADE? WHY, WHY, WHY????
Each time those knuckledraggers get away with their actions means they will continue to do them. It’s long past due to hold them responsible for their actions.
ozchambers
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 5:41pmSounds like they ordered a little after dinner “whine”.
These unions are really stepping up the volume here lately. I suspect that they just may overplay their hand and have the majority of Americans begin to see them for what they are. One can hope….
Report Post »corchem
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 5:41pmThose TEA party people sure are nasty, Oh wait, its not the TEA party, more thuggery from the left, and all I hear is crickets from the main stream media. My attitude is changed over the years, there are no good Democrats (Demmunist) they are all anti-American!
kryptonite
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 5:47pmGeez, America, Obama’s civil police were simply doing their job.
NickDeringer
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 5:51pmYes, gang. Give them enough rope and they will hang somebody.
nsblues
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 5:56pmThese days the Pinkertons wear purple
Showtime
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 6:01pmSo what else could be expected of the SEIU?
The Communist unions are trying to control the government, and that should not be allowed. Another thing that should not be allowed is the “kill switch” for Obama to use on the Internet. The media is toast except for Fox News. That is the reason Obama hates Fox so much and the reason the lamestream sucks up to him — so they won’t be silenced.
grandmaof5
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 6:02pmWhy no arrests? A hefty, hefty fine, jail time, lawyer and court costs sounds like an appropriate response to me. No arrests just emboldens these thugs to get increasingly violent, unless this was condoned by the police that responded. They are, afterall, unionized.
cheezwhiz
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 6:04pmThe commotion eventually led to pushing and shoving with the restaurant staff and owner, before police arrived to calm the situation as a police helicopter hovered overhead. No senators were involved in the physical altercations, and no charges have been filed.
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So Obama’s thugs stalked the Republicans,
then physically assaulted the restaurant owner and staff inside the restaurant,
then staged a disturbance to harm the Republicans inside that restaurant,
but NO charges were filed by the police ?
WHY ?
CaptGregg
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 6:04pmI have a strong feeling that restaurant owner George Stefanidis won’t be hiring any SEIU members in the near future.
CatB
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 6:13pmTime and Place .. MATT .. time and place!
Report Post »Whostolemypig
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 6:16pmWhy no arrest?
Ohio Law
2917.11 Disorderly conduct.
(A) No person shall recklessly cause inconvenience, annoyance, or alarm to another by doing any of the following:
(1) Engaging in fighting, in threatening harm to persons or property, or in violent or turbulent behavior;
(2) Making unreasonable noise or an offensively coarse utterance, gesture, or display or communicating unwarranted and grossly abusive language to any person;
(3) Insulting, taunting, or challenging another, under circumstances in which that conduct is likely to provoke a violent response;
(4) Hindering or preventing the movement of persons on a public street, road, highway, or right-of-way, or to, from, within, or upon public or private property, so as to interfere with the rights of others, and by any act that serves no lawful and reasonable purpose of the offender;
(5) Creating a condition that is physically offensive to persons or that presents a risk of physical harm to persons or property, by any act that serves no lawful and reasonable purpose of the offender.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 6:17pmCAPTGREGG or anyone .. have a LIST of RESTAURANTS THAT ARE UNION WORKERS? I would love to know .. and boycott them .. or leave as a “tip” a message stating why they are not getting one!
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 6:18pmGODSAMERICA
Report Post »You are correct and it seems like this could be considered a terrorist attack. They don’t have to hurt and kill people and it still be a terrorist attack. In fact I feel that they should be called “Obama’s Terroristas”
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No no no no …..noooo..you don’t understand.
You see when Americans wave the US flag and sing God bless America at a public place, its hate speech
if they do the same facing jihadies, then it is islamophobia,
if they do the same inside a Church , then it is bigotry ,
but
when Obama sends his thugs to beat up and / or threaten people he doesn’t want ,
that my friend is a Constitutionally protected excersise of First Amendment rights
drphil69
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 6:21pmMoran, however, was unapologetic about the ambush. “The moment of discomfort Senate Republicans may have felt as a result of my expressing my opinion pales in comparison to the extreme discomfort and financial hardships that public employees will endure as a result of SB5.”
…And screw anybody that gets in the way! Including innocent restaurant staff and other hard working people who just wanted a nice dinner. Typical liberals, selfish and child-like, with no regard for the innocent.
Report Post »DVT
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 6:34pmI’m in! Lets give ‘em ataste of their own medicine!
Report Post »apollo18
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 6:48pmAre the SEIU members aware that they have been shifted to the “…or we’ll come over to your house and kick your a–” retirement plan? THAT has a better chance of working than the plan they’re currently on, by the way.
Report Post »independentvoteril
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 6:49pmOK I was born and raised in CHICAGO and KNOW all about the mob mentality of the unions.. this will stop when the unions people start getting their butts beat by citizens who are SICK of their BS.. like oh say the CUSTOMERS in the restaurant ..or the owner and wait staff press charges against them.. IF I had been the waitstaff that got harassed BETTER believe I would be pressing charges.. ( I was a waitress).. or defending myself against thugs.. all I have to say is BOTH sides better watch their backs..cause that’s where creeps like these like to attack.. they are cowards..
Report Post »PeachyinGA
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 6:53pmBUCK, very soon 3 hots and a cot will be a luxury!
Why were no charges filed? The restaurant owner/employees need to grow a backbone. If they were shoved around and their requests for the thugs to leave were ignored, why cover for the Union thugs?
Report Post »rodamaa
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 6:54pmCatB
“I hear 7 1/2 MILLION Dollars to restore the WI State Capital”
The left idea of creating jobs.
Report Post »zibadoo
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 6:57pmSend them all to jail!!!! criminals, all of them.
Report Post »rodamaa
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 6:59pmThese are Saul Alinsky tactics–Grab a copy of Rules for Radicals and you will see the playbook
Report Post »DiamondDog
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 7:00pmPoor SEIU members.They are being exploited by a bunch of Con Artists. Their leaders don’t care about them at all. They just shake them down for union dues. I bet the head of the SEIU rides around in a Cadillac Escalade with a Union Credit Card living the good life.
Report Post »Cemoto78
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 7:11pmSounds to me like they should have been arrested for:
Report Post »trespassing, disorderly conduct, and assault.
The problem is they weren’t, so they seem to accept the fact this is a condoned behavior and will repeat it. Once again, the rule of law is not adhered to for the liberal progressives to which they believe they are above such things. Until Americans demand the laws be adhered to, such as the border, hiring illegal labor, etc., then this crap will continue.
Diane TX
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 7:21pm@ Whostolemypig
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The “what is disorderly conduct” list describes the protestors at the Wisconsin Capital to a “T”.
Report Post »Rollo2
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 8:08pmSEIU doesn’t give a rats azz about the middle class. They have an issue with these State Sens., they can phone, write, email their offices, post to their Twitter or Facebook pages, whatever. SEIU has NO RIGHT to cause a disturbance in a privately owned business.
Report Post »Pocono Countryboy
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 8:26pmGood thing for the protesters the former Green Beret had the self discipline instilled in him throughout their training or their evening could have ended quite badly. I’d put one Green Beret up against 10 union goofballs any day of the week.
Report Post »grandmaof5
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 8:55pmCATB, looked but all I could find was “restaurant worker’s union”, such as the one that elected Harry Reid in 2010. NYC is full of them but couldn’t really see specific restaurants. I guess it is a collective thing but would be interesting to know.
Report Post »Sergio Q
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 8:56pmwish I had been there ,,I can see the headline now;
Report Post »~Armed Tattoo Artist defends Senators , five or 10 SEIU members toe tagged ~
Artist quoted saying “After that Arizona GroceryStore parking lot moment its open season on anybody doing or attempting to do anything to Senators” as he giggled…..
NeoFan
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 8:58pmWont be long now. The unions are loosing in their fight against the taxpayers. Soon we will impeach there thug leader.
Report Post »izzyt84
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 9:07pmI think what comes around, goes around. Those of us on the Right could easily play that game also! And personally as an Illinois resident, I am totally disgusted these loser dems from Wisconsin think they can come to my state and hide out! And I am fed up watching these whack-jobs in Wisconsin beating their stupid drums and acting like immature idiots. Fight back? Hell yeah. I wish their governor would just do what he needs to do and get it over with already.
Report Post »Uncle Crusty
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 9:15pmSee, there they go again showing that union ugliness, Wilbur! Union thuggery will get you far, please do keep it up, you people are a laughing stock, quite commical. Problem is we’re not laughing any more…
Report Post »ilovethiscountry
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 9:27pm@Matt708
I agree, no class.
Report Post »Mil Mom
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 9:37pm@Showtime
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 6:01pm
So what else could be expected of the SEIU?
The Communist unions are trying to control the government, and that should not be allowed. Another thing that should not be allowed is the “kill switch” for Obama to use on the Internet. The media is toast except for Fox News. That is the reason Obama hates Fox so much and the reason the lamestream sucks up to him — so they won’t be silenced.
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Report Post »But, didn’t you hear Mrs. Clinton, the only reputable News is on El Jazeera, everything else is worthless.
And it didn’t even take a Complete Takeover for them to turn on their main Cheerleaders.
CatB
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 9:40pm@Grandma
Strange isn’t it .. I can’t find any list of chains that are SEIU restaurants …. If anyone finds a list I would LOVE to have it and circulate the information.
Report Post »Mil Mom
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 9:50pm@rodamaa
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 6:54pm
CatB
“I hear 7 1/2 MILLION Dollars to restore the WI State Capital”
The left idea of creating jobs.
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Report Post »I wonder if there isn’t a law against “Defacing Public Property” in WI, surely someone knows who was camped out inside it all those days. At least you would think someone would know. Maybe their are video cameras inside which could be used in court to identify the perps. Or maybe they could send the bill to Organizing for America!
Limrintz2
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 9:53pmNo use getting into a ******* match with a skunk as my pappy used to say!
Report Post »Xcori8r
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 10:00pmAnd they didn’t spend the night in the slammer for trespass, why?
Report Post »savarulz
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 10:27pmI’m in, I’ll be more than happy to protest them at their place of business, or home, but unlike the I’ll kill them with kindness.
Report Post »Rightsofman
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 10:28pmDoes this violence from the left bring a tear to your eye Nancy?
Report Post »michaeljay
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 11:08pmBut we can’t, you see, because they are under-privileged and have absolute rights. And besides, they are only doing what comes natural to them.
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pitboss711
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 11:23pmThe SEIU is going broke and getting scared. AAAAHAHAHAHAHA!!
Report Post »plunderpower
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 11:24pmMake the Unions start paying for the vandalizing, destruction of private and public property, police costs, and cleanup plus all the other costs these idiots create. The businesses of Wisconsin need to look a class action suit to recoup their losses. The taxpayers of Wisconsin need to get their AG to file suit for the Union made mess. Have the courts seize the Union assets. Make the Unions spread their wealth around. And Somebody tell Obama there won’t be anything left to donate to a re-election campaign. Let Krupka reign his hoards in before they bankrupt the Union. Let Obama start begging them to stop so he can get money.
Report Post »Conservachic
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 11:50pmThis kind of behavior from union people has turned me against unions. They’re so brainwashed into thinking that they “need” the union bosses; it’s pathetic to see the desperation (with pure rage) screaming that they’re all going to die now & lose everything. What the ??? They’re repeatedly told that so much, that they believe it. How silly. They’ll continue to be paid fairly & receive good benefits WITHOUT having to pay the annual union dues of $1000 a year. How do they think the rest of us get by? Sheesh.
Report Post »Theleftisda
Posted on March 5, 2011 at 12:39amCatB
Report Post »Posted on March 4, 2011 at 9:40pm
Strange isn’t it .. I can’t find any list of chains that are SEIU restaurants …. If anyone finds a list I would LOVE to have it and circulate the information
National Restaurant Association
you can find a list for each state NRA is SEIU union
onebigassmistakeamerica
Posted on March 5, 2011 at 12:55amMe too.
Report Post »Rice Water
Posted on March 5, 2011 at 1:41amThe Lawmakers were having dinner in a business open to the public. If they had been having a dinner at someone’s private home, this never would’ve happened.
Jesus Christ, what DON’T you idiots understand about this?
RepubliCorp
Posted on March 5, 2011 at 2:08amTime for tax payers union……..cut off all funds to these thugs! Put them on the street bagging O’carter for food stamps.
Report Post »Fletch
Posted on March 5, 2011 at 2:36amSEIU’s Rivera in Ohio
“When the group burst into the restaurant, the woman, Monica Moran, deputy director of public affairs for SEIU District 1199, raised her hands in the air, yelled “Can I have your attention?“ and then shouted ”something nasty,” LaRose said. Soon after, the rest of the group of men and women joined in with a chant. ”
SEIU District 1199 – Dennis Rivera’s NY local
Remember that name. Rivera wields a big stick in SEIU
THE DEALMAKER – A UNION BOSS WITH HUGE POLITICAL POWER, DENNIS RIVERA MADE THE CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL AGREEMENT POSSIBLE. OBSERVERS SAY HE’S A SKILLED MEDIATOR — BUT HE CAN PLAY HARDBALL.
Buffalo News, The (NY) – Sunday, April 7, 2002
Author: TOM PRECIOUS and CHARITY VOGEL – News Staff Reporters
EXCERPT
He started his life and his union career in Puerto Rico. Back then, Rivera went by the name Dennis Hickey — using the last name of his Irish father.
In Puerto Rico, he honed his organizing skills as a Vietnam War protest leader and started two unions. In 1977, he moved to New York City, where he began his life’s work of organizing health care workers. Along the way, he took on his mother’s surname — Rivera . Today he cites his Puerto Rican roots as a major factor in his success.
In New York, Rivera started out at the bottom of the union food chain: as an organizer, a job with little glamour and little pay but, especially in New York City, a job that demands street smarts and maybe even a bit of hustling.
Rivera rose through the ranks. In 1989, just 12 years after he arrived from San Juan, he gained control of what today is Local 1199 of SEIU , the Service Employees International Union. That union includes 210,000 members — orderlies, cafeteria workers and clerks — who are some of the industry’s lowest-paid workers.
Rivera is also president of the New York State Council of SEIU , a 325,000-member umbrella group that includes 1199 Upstate, which represents 17,000 health care workers from Buffalo to Albany. He makes $103,000 a year — modest by the standards of downstate labor bosses.
Along the way, as Rivera rose to power, politicians learned all about his importance — especially those who relied on his help to make it into office.
In that category are former President Bill Clinton, New York City politicians, and U.S. Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Charles E. Schumer.
“If you want to have one guy in your corner,” Schumer said, “he’s probably the one.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/27/business/27union.html
Dennis Rivera Leads Labor Charge for Health Reform
By STEVEN GREENHOUSEgas
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sodizzy
Posted on March 5, 2011 at 4:42amDear Snow,
That is the definition of violence. Violating borders, people’s space.
Report Post »TaraR42
Posted on March 5, 2011 at 4:59amIll Drive I live in C-Bus and this is the first im hearing of this! Our local media only puts forth one side of the argument,
Report Post »Killtheunions
Posted on March 5, 2011 at 6:05amYeah lets push their wives and children around when we get inside too!!!Lets see how they like the sh*t!!!
Report Post »Rice Water
Posted on March 5, 2011 at 6:56amThose poor senators…they are truly AMERICAN HEROS!!!
Report Post »cunctator
Posted on March 5, 2011 at 8:20amthey are showing us who they are. i love john kasich’s courage
Report Post »straightshooter1
Posted on March 5, 2011 at 8:38amI will help protect the people who try to harm or disrupt the ones who seek to do right! We need to go out in force and stop these union thugs. Notice I said “in force” not “by force”. God has givenb us the right of self defense and I think it is time to use it!
Report Post »jedi.kep
Posted on March 5, 2011 at 8:43amTypical union crybabies. Can’t get their way, so let’s beat up somebody! Let’s get a little bloody!
Stupid people not willing to cut their salaries like everyone else has. At least they still have a job.
Report Post »Boojer56
Posted on March 5, 2011 at 9:41amIt appears to me that the SEIU is a terrorist organization and should be treated as such. Am I wrong?
Report Post »jerry1945
Posted on March 5, 2011 at 10:08amThere were no arrest and there will be none as long as the police are union members.
Report Post »FriggyFrogFan
Posted on March 5, 2011 at 10:55amLet me know when and I will be with you.
Report Post »Godseyesareonthem
Posted on March 5, 2011 at 2:37pmAre these people the same ones who were bullies in school? Because of unions and their outrageous demands is why the American jobs have went overseas and the American worker is out of work! God Bless America and the honest working man and woman who don’t need screamed and yelled at because they did their job proudly. Who are these people. Apparently they did not have a very good upbringing at home with this behavior. Spare the rod spoil the child!
Report Post »vivrobbins
Posted on March 5, 2011 at 6:22pmNo arrests. Will the same thing happen when they finally kill someone with their demonstrations?
Report Post »Mark my words. It will happen.
Parrid1
Posted on March 5, 2011 at 6:52pmBetter idea! Remember the scene from the Bronx Tale when the bikers wouldn’t leave the bar after being disrespectful? The door got locked behind them and they found themselves unable to leave and then the boys came out and taught them some manners……That’s what should have been done.
Report Post »fixer
Posted on March 5, 2011 at 8:08pmsomeone should post these thugs address online,and maybe we can show em what it’s like
Report Post »StonyBurk
Posted on March 6, 2011 at 8:30amBut you don‘t understand these is eric holders’ “My people” / “y‘all just hasn’t suffered enough” to realize these O sheep is just doin the bidding of the Messiah.
Report Post »Chris
Posted on March 6, 2011 at 8:36amYeah and there’s our President out there encouraging unions to keep on fighting. Maybe they just don‘t understand that he didn’t mean actually fighting, or did he?
Report Post »JEANNIEMAC
Posted on March 6, 2011 at 1:39pmThese are typical Alinsky tactics. Thousands of his books have been distributed to Obama’s various groups, teaching them the “community organizer” methods These methods involve chanting, waving flags, shouting down opposition., and now violence. Union members are being utilized as “useful idiots” by the communist union bosses, and by Obama, who is running the show. The head of the AFL-CIO boasted o f meeting with Obama 2-3 times a week in the White House, and speaking with him daily on the phone. They sent out the directives to the union bosses, telling them where to order the workers to march, what to chant, and providing signs, etc.
Report Post »The union bosses want the dues deducted from the pay of members to provide themselves with huge salaries and money to finance Democrats. They do not want members to have secret balloting, because they want to be able to threaten members who don’t vote as ordered.
Our teachers, police and firefighters are being used to advance a communist takeover of our nation.
buzzbrazil
Posted on March 6, 2011 at 1:46pmDon’t these people ever get arrested? I mean the last time I heard pushing someone is assault. I guess you have to be Republican or Tea Party for that one to apply. Geesh.
Report Post »StonyBurk
Posted on March 7, 2011 at 7:10amLook for the union lable,it’s worn by thugs who love their sable.
Report Post »BigPaul
Posted on March 7, 2011 at 5:31pmIf i owned that estsablishment i would have pulled a sawed off shotgun shoved it in monica morans mouth and blown the back of her head off and then asked who’s next MF.
Report Post »I am here, iam waiting