Update: Tackled Wis. Rep Admits ‘I Was Aggressive’
- Posted on March 4, 2011 at 2:08pm by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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Wis. State Rep. Nick Milroy released a statement today regarding the stunning video showing him being tackled by police last night as he tried to storm the Capitol. On one hand, he admitted he was “aggressive.” On the other hand, he railed against Gov. Scott Walker’s “armed palace environment.”
Milroy said he tried to get into the Capitol in order to retrieve some “personal belongings.” At that point, he admitted, “I was aggressive in attempting to re-enter the Capitol and law enforcement was aggressive in trying to keep me out.”
The video, posted early this morning on The Blaze, shows Milroy being taken to the ground and eventually shouting at officers.
Despite the admission, however, Milroy also took a shot at Walker, saying he had created an “armed palace environment,“ and that he has been ”frustrated” with Walker’s “lockdown” of the building. In reality, a judge ordered the building closed for cleaning — a necessary step after weeks of protests.
Said Milroy, who has been holding office hours outside in the wake of the closing, “No lawmaker should have to go to that extent to talk to the people he represents.”
Milroy said he was eventually allowed in the Capitol, and he did go out of his way to praise Capitol Police Chief Charles Tubbs for “skillfully” clearing the building after hours.
“Overall, law enforcement has done an excellent job in a ridiculous situation,” Milroy said. “They are simply following the orders of Governor Walker.”
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Comments (90)
tonyedward
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 3:32pm“No lawmaker should have to go to that extent to talk to the people he represents.”
And the people you represent are at work or at home. Not the freeloaders protesting.
Report Post »Akira Gomi
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 3:28pmProgressives, union dolts, this is perfect, they just love rolling in the gutter. Is this i the audacity of BS change obammy was spouting? What a bunch of losers, they have really lost there minds, I love it..
Report Post »Eyeball
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 3:06pmCollective bargaining loots the private worker tax payer to the mutual benefit of the unions, the politician, and the public worker.
Report Post »mental-indigestion
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 3:04pmGov Walker did not create the environment, the fleeing Dems that refused to do their job and get the issue over and done with did!
Report Post »fyvagirl
Posted on March 5, 2011 at 2:18amAhh yes, and we the working folks have to pay them for walking off the job! If you or I walked off our jobs because we had to deal with this huge issue or anything else that is in our job description we would have been FIRED!! Milroy has had his 15 minutes of fame, he is trying his damnest to spin it and it doesn’t seem to be working!!! Get the building cleaned, get back to work!!!
Report Post »Romans828
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 3:03pmApologies for really poor grammar in some of my posts. My brain is running in too many directions at once.
Report Post »HispanicGrl
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 2:52pm“I was aggressive in attempting to re-enter the Capitol and law enforcement was aggressive in trying to keep me out.”
Report Post »WAKE UP Cops! The people you were standing with and giving them a pass while they destroyed the Capitol, are not on your side. The enemy of your enemy is not your friend.
FiveChels
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 3:41pmI wish they had your common sense.
Report Post »HispanicGrl
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 2:50pm“I was aggressive in attempting to re-enter the Capitol and law enforcement was aggressive in trying to keep me out.”
Report Post »Wake-up Madison cops! The people you were standing with, can’t stand you!. The enemy of my enemy is NOT
jordy2010
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 2:49pmMilroy should have been tazered…… that would have made a fantastic yoputube video……”Dem lawmaker’s
Report Post »imitation of a frying piece of bacon”!!!!!! roflmao
Contrarian51
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 2:44pm“Despite the admission, however, Milroy also took a shot at Walker, saying he had created an “armed palace environment,“ and that he has been ”frustrated” with Walker’s “lockdown” of the building. In reality, a judge ordered the building closed for cleaning….”
Why let an inconvenient little thing like fact or truth get in the way of the point you want to make?
Report Post »Diane TX
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 2:43pmI think that the Democrats are acting disgusting. This “fleeing away” in States where the Republicans are in the majorities, makes all of them sore losers.
Don’t they realize that real people voted to put the Republicans in the majority because they were dissatisfied with the Democrats?
Not only are the Democrats not representing the people who voted for them, they’re nullifying the votes of the people who voted for the Republicans – since nothing can get done without the stated quorum.
Milroy saying that Gov. Walker has created an “armed palace environment“, implying that Gov. Walker is some kind of King is ingenuous. No, Mr. Milroy, Gov. Walker was ELECTED Governor and is not a King or dictator. He IS the CEO of the State of Wisconsin, and he IS in charge.
Report Post »Romans828
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 3:00pmIt‘s hard to describe what it’s like in Wisconsin right now. Frustrations of those of us who are afraid we’ll be seeing the results of the election overturned (not just on this bill but on every future bill: all they’ll have to do after the Republicans cave once is THREATEN to leave the state….). More than half of our Senators have recall petitions filed on them: every single one (Democrat AND Republican) that has held office long enough to be recalled. The Wis. Democrat Party is directly running the GOP recalls. There is NO involvement whatsoever of the Wis. GOP on the Dem recalls.
Report Post »Diane TX
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 3:22pm@ Romans828
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I hope that Gov. Walker can stand his ground. In another State (I don’t remember which one) where the Republicans are the majority, the Dems left the State because they didn‘t want to have their State made ’a right to work State’. That Gov. took that off the table, but the Dems still won’t come back. The Dems are deciding what else they need “taken off the table” to come back.
So, Gov. Walker should not back down. The Dems lost the elections, but they are controlling the legislatures, and that is just not right.
Report Post »FiveChels
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 3:43pmIf the GOP will stand their ground (without the slightest give), they’ll end up the big winners here. This behavior is so childish.
Report Post »BurntHills
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 2:37pm”armed palace”.. after those drugged-up animals and obama union thugs TRASHED the place?! that vile democrat is lucky he was not tasered.
Report Post »Romans828
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 2:52pmThe “armed palace” reference is in going along with what the union thug a.k.a. Dane County Sheriff’s comment that he pulled his deputies off “palace guard” duty. Unfortunately that meant that there were no cops around the outside of the building when Sen. Grothman was mobbed while trying to enter the building for the governor’s budget speech this week. The Sheriff’s name is Dave Mahoney by the way. Or jerk. Whichever you prefer.
Report Post »Hisemiester
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 2:56pmprobably should have been tasered,
Report Post »moonpeace
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 2:37pm2ddd @pajamash
Report Post »To answer your question, he was trying to get rid of evidence. Use your imagination as to what evidence.
moonpeace
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 2:36pm@pajamash
Report Post »To answer your question, he was trying to get rid of evidence. Use your imagination as to what evidence.
Barb1954
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 2:33pmQuote: “No lawmaker should have to go to that extent to talk to the people he represents.”
Umm, excuse me, but, umm, your constituents are IN YOUR DISTRICT which is OUTSIDE THAT STUPID BUILDING! Man! These people say REALLY STUPID things when they are DESPERATE and OUT OF POWER!
Report Post »Romans828
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 2:45pmMoving their offices outside was just a publicity stunt. Fortunately it worked amazingly poorly. I’ve been devouring the media (both sides) here in Wisconsin and this is the first I’ve actually seen this and only heard one rumor of it prior to this.
Report Post »Barb1954
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 2:49pmAs a matter of fact………why doesn’t this little PERP go HOME and TALK TO the people he “represents” since NOTHING ELSE is getting done right now ANYWAY! Maybe…….he‘ll find out HE’S WRONG in what he BELIEVES “his people” want him to do! Ya think???
Report Post »pwatkins
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 2:30pmAt least Walker has given GW Bush a break from blame by the democraps.
Report Post »solabola71
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 2:27pm“Milroy also took a shot at Walker, saying he had created an “armed palace environment,“ and that he has been ”frustrated” with Walker’s “lockdown” of the building. In reality, a judge ordered the building closed for cleaning — a necessary step after weeks of protests.”
So because the unions caused Walker to step up security at the Capitol, Milroy is crying foul? Milroy also doesn’t seem to be able to tell the truth when it was the judge who order the Capitol closed to clean upo the funk left by the union thung er I mean protestors.
Report Post »fertlmind
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 2:24pmThey should have tazed him
Report Post »I’ve seen the police taze perps for doing less
Now THAT would be a fantastic YOUTUBE video!
Wis. State Rep. Nick Milroy on the floor of the capitol, tazer engaged, doing the lightning dance!
angroehl
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 2:23pmWhy is he trying to sneak in during the night? Coward.
Report Post »doing the Works of God
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 2:49pmwhy must you be filled with so much hate?
Report Post »FiveChels
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 2:23pmIn other words, “I did something stupid, but it wasn’t my fault. I was the victim!”
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 2:19pm@Jon Seidl ~
Report Post »They’ll be along in a few minutes.
grandmaof5
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 2:19pmTypical, one minute he admits he was wrong to storm the building and then ruins a perfectly good admission by blaming it on Walker. Do they ever take personal responsibility for anything? I was actually giving his an “atta boy”, then he blew it, and then he didn’t, then he did. The demonstrators should remain outside in respect of the capitol building to begin with instead of treating it like their personal motel.
Report Post »Blackhawk1
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 2:25pmThat’s right Granmaof5. Democrats can never admit they did something wrong without later blaming it on someone else. I wonder if Milroy will go to his union buddies to get the 7.5 million it will cost to get the Capital Building back to the condition it was before the union mobs occupied it?
Report Post »sissykatz
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 4:00pmBlackhawk1 I was thinking they should charge the “RUNAWAY 14” for it, They were the ones that said they wanted to hold everything up until the other side was heard, Of course you know that was at the direction of the “UNION”, But none of this would have happened if they had voted like they were supposed to do, Instead of calling in the unions.
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 2:17pmWhere is everybody?
Report Post »poverty.sucks
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 2:32pmRapture? Begining of the end times?
Report Post »Richard Compton
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 2:15pmOk so first you atenpted to enter and locked building which just happen to be the capitol of the Stae of Wisconsin, then you try to blame the security police for doing their job, but it’s the govenors fault?
Report Post »Am I missing something here?
Showtime
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 2:22pmYes, you missed something.
” In reality, a judge ordered the building closed for cleaning — a necessary step after weeks of protests.”
Report Post »aLinedog
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 2:22pmI know what you’re missing, Richard.
The wierd-colored glasses (made in Eastern Europe) they issue Proggies at what can only be described as a freakshow within a sideshow. I‘d sell tickets but then they’d know I had infiltrated their secret circle of Bodysnatchers.
Ed.Note: yeah, that was satire. Seriously, you would have to see it from their point of view which has a very anti-Republic slant and only a passing resemblance to fact-based reality.
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doing the Works of God
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 2:52pm@showtime Please do some fact checking. Never bare false witness.
Report Post »aLinedog
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 3:09pmI‘m not usually one to pick at spelling on BBS’s…. people get rushed, and passionate in their thoughts to text. I understand… but please, at least here, try harder everyone.
Report Post »I can’t figure out if Doing the Works is quoting the Ten Commandments (bear false witness) or poking fun at the idea of stripping a proggie naked (removing the barrier of lies they throw up to hide behind), e.g.: to ‘bare a false witness to the light of the truth.” As we know that would be ‘Cruel and Unusual punishment’..like applying salt to a slug.
I prefer the latter interpretation. Too funny.
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Bullcop34
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 3:22pmSomething else you missed is that the Rep put his hands on a police officer. As a former police officer, I don’t care who you are ….do not put your hands on me or my fellow officers, period.
Report Post »old white guy
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 4:08pmshowtime , i read it will cost about seven million more taxpayers dollars to clean up the marble the socialists wrecked.
Report Post »poverty.sucks
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 2:14pmHe was aggressive to get on YouTube
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 2:13pmEverybody’s upset, tired, and worn out over the Wisconsin protests. Not surprising, whether he’s Democrat or Republican. He’s a human being.
Report Post »pajamash
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 2:22pm“Milroy said he tried to get into the Capitol in order to retrieve some “personal belongings.”
What personal belonging is so important that you are willing to butt heads with police officers?
Report Post »cap0ne
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 2:30pmIf he was GOP he would be in jail with a felony wrap. Plain and simple.
hifi74
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 2:48pmSaid Milroy, who has been holding office hours outside in the wake of the closing, “No lawmaker should have to go to that extent to talk to the people he represents.”
Well Mr. Millroy it shouldn’t take a judicial order to close the capitol just so it can be cleaned now should it. Maybe you should talk to the squatters in the halls that you represent before it gets to that point again. How about taking responsibility for your own foolish actions. Sorry Mr. Millroy you brought this one upon yourself, no one to blame but yourself.
jeffnun
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 2:51pmSorry I cant go for that, these people have generated their own mess now they can wallow in it. He fully intended for his position to allow him to circumvent the police and the Governors directions to them.
Report Post »ConstitutionalPatriot
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 2:57pmRight…. That is called political speak, just like when a person knowing their being filmed and is trying to instigate an issue acts without malice. He saw the next day that his attempt didn‘t work and ’they’ wrote him another response blaming Gov.Walker (who is doing the correct thing for the people) for something the union’s caused, THE SHUT DOWN OF THE CAPITAL!
Report Post »GODSAMERICA
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 3:01pm@Showtime
I was not aware on the first story that it was a Democrat but it now explains a lot. The whole thing was a set-up that he created. He knew that it was a judge that ordered the evacuation and that Walker had nothing to do with it. He went in as aggresively as he could so that aggression would be used to stop him as he knew it would. I would have felt sorry for him being handled that way if it wasn’t totally clear now that he wanted it that way. The tricks these democrats create, whether it is for publicity or to avoid doing their job and voting like they were elected to do shows the complete and total lack of integrity, honor and pride in themselves and the total disregard, arrogance and dislike for people that do not bow down and obey whatever they want.
waggie
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 3:22pmidiot
Report Post »kryptonite
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 3:39pmA judge, Walker……. eenie meenie miney mo — it was Walker who ordered it. Who cares. I am above the law, anyway.
Report Post »HUGGINGMYBABIES
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 3:54pmSo over this…..truly…..just stop already. The only idiots out there are not worth mentioning any more.
Report Post »Ghandi was a Republican
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 3:55pmuh– I know your being facetious but- The kind that can get him into a lot of trouble if he loses control of it, to be clear..
Report Post »338lapua
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 3:59pmWhen questioned further, he admitted he was after “some really gnarly bud,and a couple of hits of blotter” from the top drawer in his desk. He was allowed to retrieve the items when he promised to share.
Report Post »P C BE DAMNED
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 4:29pmI just want to know if he is better than us little people and didn’t get charged. You know to us common folks even a charge we have to hire a lawyer to defend against is devastating as the cost takes away years of our productivity. Thats time out of our life. Are some people better than others?
Report Post »koyettsu
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 6:04pmThe police have already taken sides in this matter, they are refusing to arrest or press charges against someone that commits a crime against a conservative. Madison is damn near a war zone at this point, citizens are afraid and people/business’ are being threatened by union thugs to get their own way. In Madison it would not surprise me if they all knew what they were doing to create a video to try and damage Walker.
Report Post »independentvoteril
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 7:00pmI have been to protests on various occassions at our state capitol in Springfield and NEVER.. was the Capitol Building open AFTER hours EVEN for a protest.. NOR did they allow people in on SATURDAY‘S or SUNDAY’S.. Walker should have NEVER allowed them to stay from day 1.. and this Rep should have told security who he was and ASKED to please be allowed to enter to retrieve whatever it was he wanted.. The one thing that is getting to me is the passiveness of the Republicans.. while I do not expect nor want any physical violence.. it’s time to QUIT walking on eggs for the nuts on the extreme left.. it’s like REPUBLICANS need AL-ALON meetings.. cause they are dealing with a bunch of drunks.. … RULES are RULES public building close at a certain time.. and quit being so PC about standing up..
Report Post »Cemoto78
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 7:38pm“Overall, law enforcement has done an excellent job in a ridiculous situation,” Milroy said.
Report Post »A ridiculous “thing” brought on and manifested by progressive democrats who are more worried about their loss in campaign contributions from the unions and their misguided members. In bad, and I mean BAD, economic times great Americans look to each other for help and assistance, not to government for more handouts and entitlements. These public workers who are so twisted over their possibility of temporary loss of such luxury bargaining tools as binding arbitration, should be totally ashamed. To not believe they should have to pay more for their healthcare and pensions just smacks of the entitlement mentality that has been fostered through the years by these progressive liberals.If the public employees bothered to look at the big picture they would understand where their bread is being buttered, by the private sector employees who pay taxes which amounts to the public sectors salaries. What is wrong with these clowns other than, “I’ve got mine and you owe it to me”.
I would like to thank all those AFL-CIO union bosses for helping me decide to cancel my membership in their union, to which gives me great pleasure knowing no more of my money will be going to them and helping them promote the downfall of this country.
calamari12
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 8:33pmWell, thank goodness he understands this wasn‘t the cops’ fault. Now if only he would acknowledge that A JUDGE ordered the lock down for cleaning, not Gov. Walker.
Report Post »angelcat
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 10:21pmyes, but if he had been a Republican human being the lamestream media would be painting him as a wildman and worse. Everything would be made to be the police’s fault.
Report Post »sablegsd
Posted on March 5, 2011 at 4:07pmGot a link to him being human?
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