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Wisconsin Governor Not the Only One Threatened by Unions

What does it take to stand up to the threats from union bullies in Wisconsin?  Dawn Bobo knows.

Dawn is a self-described, 54 year old grandmother who runs a ‘dollar store’ in Union Grove, Wisconsin. She was recently approached by union thugs who demanded that she post their sign in her store window.

She said ‘no thanks’ and was threatened with boycotts unless she complied with the pressure from AFSCME.

Instead she posted her own sign.

Wisconsin Governor Not the Only One Threatened by Unions

Dawn stood her ground and has received an outpouring of support from the community, with some reports saying that her business has quadrupled!

Comments (192)

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  • avi8tor
    Posted on April 2, 2011 at 3:51pm

    Seen this lady and her story last night on Fox. I feel for her and it’s great that she is standing her ground !

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  • Hisemiester
    Posted on April 2, 2011 at 3:50pm

    What the stores in Wisc should do is not to sell to Union members period. Do a card check and if union out of here spot.
    What Gov. Walker should do is start laying off workers. If that is stopped, hold a press conference and tell the voters in Wisc. that he is resigning as he can’t help.
    When the Union workers destroy the state they will have no jobs. Will be good then. Ha.

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  • momprayn
    Posted on April 2, 2011 at 3:49pm

    Great news! More power to her & hope and pray that this will really spread all over. I’m encouraged b/c of the internet & good Consv. cable news now that we didn’t have years ago. They were used to using their old tactics of bullying, lying, bribing, etc. but now they can’t “hide” anymore. Evil groups are being exposed for the first time ever. I take this as a good sign & hope it wakes up the whole nation to do their part.

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  • alaskajohn
    Posted on April 2, 2011 at 3:47pm

    Now all the union thugs that call us scabs, for working non-union, want us to join arm & arm with them to stand up for workers rights. They haven’t stood for anything but union rights for 50 years if ever.

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  • commonsensesue
    Posted on April 2, 2011 at 3:47pm

    Where the heck is the civility? After the Arizona shootings there was such a demand for civility…oh gee, I forgot…that’s only for the conservatives. WHAT was I thinking???

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  • SheriS
    Posted on April 2, 2011 at 3:47pm

    I celebrate the people like this woman! Unions have turned evil and outlived their right to exist, but Obot will do everything to protect their existence to the point of attacking the people who have no respect for union thugs! I commend the Governors of Ohio, Indiana, and Wisconsin for taking the stands they have taken! Love it and hope more Governors join the coalition! STOP THE UNION THUGS and return civility back to our country! Unfortunately the only way this will happen is to send our robot prez back to his ritsy neighborood in Chicago and his favorite neighbors, Bill Ayers and Farrakahn.

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  • alrunner58
    Posted on April 2, 2011 at 3:44pm

    What a patriot. You go girl. It just shows how good does overshadow evil.

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  • alaskajohn
    Posted on April 2, 2011 at 3:44pm

    When I had to cross picket lines years ago to work and support my family, I was called scab, I’ve had coffee thrown at me and had the tires flattened on my truck on one occasion.

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    • lizaz
      Posted on April 2, 2011 at 4:01pm

      Sounds like an airline strike in 1985…i was in ANC at the time.

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  • Jim in Houston
    Posted on April 2, 2011 at 3:39pm

    They only way to deal with a bully is to call his/her bluff. Great job by the lady in sticking it to these thugs. I hope her business grows exponentially!

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  • Marylou7
    Posted on April 2, 2011 at 3:39pm

    Whatever happened to the law against extortion?? Do laws only apply to conservatives??

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  • 123gone
    Posted on April 2, 2011 at 3:38pm

    Way to go lady, stand up to these bast*rds!
    I just hope the good citizens of Union Grove will watch your back – These thugs are not above rock throwing and firebombing. They are the dregs of our society.

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    • MaggieRose
      Posted on April 3, 2011 at 9:28am

      @Dweeb… you really want to go there? You have just rained hell~fire on your little dweebie head, my friend…

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  • lizaz
    Posted on April 2, 2011 at 3:36pm

    We support Dawn Bobo 100%. Unions use extortion to try and get their way…similar to democrats…but fortunately there are American citizens like Dawn who stand up to them. If we lived there, we would shop at her store as often as we could. Public employees should not be unionized, EVER…didn’t we see that with the air traffic controllers??? They provide a public service, work for the public and are paid by the public, and should not use their service or lack of service to extort support or money from citizens. Nothing more than a bunch of crooks….unions have outlived their usefulness. We are sorry to see public employees such as police and firefighters who USED TO BE IDOLIZED, taking up with crooked union leaders….I thought this type of person had more self respect and intelligence than to be used by their unions. We pray for you, Dawn…..don’t let them intimidate you!!!

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  • BetterDays
    Posted on April 2, 2011 at 3:35pm

    Repeat, but more personalized story which we commented on a bit ago, recall the letter from Mr. Parrett to a store owner, this fine lady is that store owner.

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  • joan k
    Posted on April 2, 2011 at 3:35pm

    Taking a play from the Obama book….Her sales are “necessarily going to skyrocket. And rightly so!

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  • BigEd
    Posted on April 2, 2011 at 3:34pm

    We need more people like this brave lady to stand up for what is right and resist the bullying tactics of the unions.

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  • NHwinter
    Posted on April 2, 2011 at 3:33pm

    President Obama said he would put on comfortable shoe and walk the unions. Did he sign the threatening letter to Mrs. Bobo too? Is this Chicago politics=Washington politics? Isn’t it time the President made an address on TV (as he does everyday anyway) and ask for all this union bullying to stop? We need more people to take a strong stand as Mrs. Bobo has done. Are there courageous people out there? God bless her and her business.

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  • sissykatz
    Posted on April 2, 2011 at 3:32pm

    Good for her!!!!! Maybe if everyone would do that the “Bullys” will slink away. But hopefully not until they serve time for threatening people.

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  • Jezcruzen
    Posted on April 2, 2011 at 3:32pm

    Great response. I agree 100%.

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  • suran
    Posted on April 2, 2011 at 3:32pm

    Hopefully, the internet with all its connections and passage of information will help bring an end to unions as we have known them. Their ugly, bullying tactics are out in the open now. No more hiding under a rock for them. Let‘s pray we all will see the unions’ true colors and that will be the end of them.

    Their original purpose – to help their workers – was thrown aside decades ago – they’ve been nothing but an ever-expanding bullying political machine for years. Keep it up, boys – show yourselves in the light, and we’ll soon be saying “good riddance to bad rubbish”!

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    • 1TrueOne55
      Posted on April 2, 2011 at 4:13pm

      When I worked at Boeing the Union started to fail in 1986 when they won a concession from the Company that removed the right to work at Boeing without being a Union Member. And since then Union members have been ripped off by both the Company and the Union, most of the Union Management get larger salaries than the membership they represent and if they go out on strike they continue to collect those salaries. If I were a member again I would start a movement to take away those large salaries.

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  • wildwood
    Posted on April 2, 2011 at 3:32pm

    WHEN IS OBAMA AND TRUMKA, GOING TO GIVE THIE THUG A SPEECH ON BULLING????????
    THe democrats and communists deserve each other!!!!!!

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  • tired of taxes
    Posted on April 2, 2011 at 3:26pm

    Good for this woman, wonder how much exposure she will get in the MSM.

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    • Psychosis
      Posted on April 2, 2011 at 4:11pm

      MOSSBRAIN IS A DISGUSTING TROLL GO AWAY

      (required lower case )

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    • Fina Biscotti
      Posted on April 2, 2011 at 4:22pm

      @mossbrain – you opened with a ridiculous nasty comment –
      the rest was worthy of your time.

      btw, Usurper President Barack HUSSEIN OBama/Barry Soetoro – as soon as he attained The White House through his acorn-seiu-vote-rigged presidency – completely closed down the UNION OVERISGHT Division of The Dept of Labor.

      These corrupt machinations occurred – under the radar – to prevent union members from having any access to expose corruption in UNIONs and of UNIONS BOSSES = FREE PASS for union and union bosses to do whatever they want = threats and intimidation tactics – and embezzlement of union dues.

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  • LadyIzShy
    Posted on April 2, 2011 at 3:25pm

    GREAT for her and nice to see her business has picked up so much..

    Go Granny Go

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  • JP4JOY
    Posted on April 2, 2011 at 3:25pm

    Good for her! These thugs are using the same shakedowns as the Mafia did. Maybe the union bosses should spend time in the same hole as Al Capone and others similarly convicted.

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  • TruthTalker
    Posted on April 2, 2011 at 3:24pm

    Unions are sealing their own fate.

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    • Ethereal
      Posted on April 2, 2011 at 4:53pm

      The problem with this that there is a big piece of the public that will read this and still think that the people who are part of unions and the union leaders themselves are in the right. They will still think that the workings of the union and their tactics are justified and that Gov Walker and the Repubs are trying to take “rights” away from workers. They never see how the union mentality has changed over the last 50 years and it is no longer about standing up for poor and dngerous working conditions. I equate it to eating peanut butter sandwiches for a year, then being given an entitlement to eat steak if your neighbor pays for it. When the neighbor can no longer pay for it and you are asked to once again eat peanut butter somehow it is the neighbor’s fault you cant have steak any more.

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    • teachermitch32
      Posted on April 2, 2011 at 7:13pm

      Every once in awhile I am blessed with a story like this one…and it makes my heart soar. I am so proud of this woman. I know what it’s like to have a struggling business (california) and have an oppressive government making it harder, then have to contend with a heavy union force.

      This smile may just last for a few days. Thanks Blaze!

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    • tifosa
      Posted on April 3, 2011 at 11:19am

      ETHEREAL, the reality is that THEY DO still have a place in today’s working environment. An example is classroom size. The conditions that the teachers work in are the conditions that children are expected to learn in.

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    • Therightsofbilly
      Posted on April 3, 2011 at 2:37pm

      Hey Tifosa,

      One of the largest union scams of all time. The classroom size argument does not fly.
      I don’t know how old you are, but back before our wonderful benevolent government had the wisdom to create the Department of Education, class sizes were significantly larger. In the mid 60′s, elementary grade class sizes were routinely between 25 – 40 students.

      The creation of the Dept. of Education, coupled with JFK’s earlier gift to the nation of allowing public employees to unionize, has crippled our society.

      It’s just more examples of how the insidious creep of liberalism / socialism / leftism / whateveryouwanttocallitism, is destroying us from within.

      Didn’t someone say something like that once? Any takers? JZS? Encinom? Akmiikeus?

      Certainly, there are other factors involved. Like the moral decay of society in general, the lack of proper parenting, etc. No surprise that even these can be directly attributed to our leftward creep. (Those two words just kinda go together well, don’t they?)

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    • Ethereal
      Posted on April 4, 2011 at 12:57pm

      @tifosa
      I do agree with you. There are certain conditions that I think should be seriously looked at and there are flaws because speaking for myself I think my child would learn better in a smaller class size which is why I send my children to private school. I know not everyone can afford that so that is not an option for many. It should be a case however that teachers negotiate with the employer and this employer should make the best effort to make the most efficient practice for all. but once again I dont see this as a “right.“ I have the ”right” to go into my bosses office and tell him that I am being worked too hard and my family and health are suffering. He also has the “right” to tell me to go find another job if I dont like it. Wh ydo you think class room sizes would get larger? Seriously, I ask because many people would have a different opinion on why this would happen. I think that a reason so many schools consolidate is because there is less money to go around for teacher benefits which in turn results in larger class sizes. Mishandling of these funds are what caused the problem.

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  • redneck
    Posted on April 2, 2011 at 3:22pm

    Nobody Community Organizes like Barack Hussein Obama Jr

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    • Revere1
      Posted on April 2, 2011 at 3:36pm

      Teachers unions have become a major problem not only in Wisconsin, but in many states. They’re the same all over: They focus on money for themselves rather than teaching: http://www.battlefield315.com/2011/02/teachers-unions-explained.html Scott Walker was the first, but there will be many others who have to face down these issues.

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    • and to the republic
      Posted on April 2, 2011 at 3:39pm

      Just think what would happen if all the businesses where she lived had the guts to do what she has done. Can you imagine? I can tell you I would shop at any place that had the sign she has up.

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    • ISeeDanger.com
      Posted on April 2, 2011 at 3:43pm

      Go Grandma!!!
      Why don’t we see this on CNN?
      Sorry, my time for a stupid question.

      http://www.ISeeDanger.com

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    • sissykatz
      Posted on April 2, 2011 at 3:44pm

      Off subject slightly, But wouldn’t it be nice and the right thing to do if the “moderate” Muslims would stand up against the Radicals. Maybe the perceptiion of muslims would change if we could see that they stand for good also.
      ‘

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    • taxed
      Posted on April 2, 2011 at 3:44pm

      The unions are in an absolute state of panic right now. Their nightmare is finally coming true.

      http://conservativepoliticalforum.com/index.php?board=1.0

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    • Sgt.Crust
      Posted on April 2, 2011 at 3:49pm

      Unions are intimidators, and we need to get rid of them, period!

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    • banjarmon
      Posted on April 2, 2011 at 3:51pm

      Stand strong Granny…God Bless You!!

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    • mtnclimberjim
      Posted on April 2, 2011 at 4:00pm

      As a business owner I would be just a bit more harsh if I was bullied like that. They would most likely leave my establishment with their sign in their a$$.

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    • grandmaof5
      Posted on April 2, 2011 at 4:09pm

      AND TO THE REPUBLIC, and I would be right there with you! I hope this catches on like “wild fire”. God bless and stay safe.

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    • redneck
      Posted on April 2, 2011 at 4:10pm

      Hope there’s some good folks watching her store front, bastard thugs are a relentless enemy.

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    • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      Posted on April 2, 2011 at 4:20pm

      God love her!!!

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    • sleazyhippo
      Posted on April 2, 2011 at 4:33pm

      “The greed that led teachers into the education profession has led to the corruption of it.”

      Don’t Forget — union folk also have a fetish for their “Buy American,” Made In America,” HARLEY-DAVIDSON, and similar product lines! We must resist these and punish the Union-lovers! Go WALMART!
      Speaking of the Waltons, Arkansas is simply an excellent example of a free state and Mike Huckabee tells us why in his new book, “A Simple Government” just out in bookstores. As seen on FOX!
      (peace love dove)

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    • Gold Coin & Economic News
      Posted on April 2, 2011 at 4:35pm

      Thank God for women like Dawn Bobo who stands up to extortion by the modern day mafia: Unions.

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    • Cemoto78
      Posted on April 2, 2011 at 4:52pm

      This just goes to show you, these union bullies are all talk. They thing they can bully people into their cause and just don’t understand there are people out there that think they have gone over the top with these tactics.
      I’ve been a union member for the last 30 years and these type of bully tactics make me ashamed and I am quitting the union immediately. The union bosses are just punks and are scrambling to make sure their easy money continues to roll in from the rest of the members who drink their lool-aid.

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    • BecksADweeb
      Posted on April 2, 2011 at 5:04pm

      She’s exactly what I imagine most you here at duhBlaze look like. Or yer women folk. PERFECT!!!!

       
    • valricoslash
      Posted on April 2, 2011 at 5:04pm

      All public employee unions should be made illegal. There is absolutley no need for empolees of the taxpayers to have a union. If they do not like the condiditons of employment like virtually being unfireable, higher than average wages, evrey holiday off, and the benefits that the taxpayers can afford and are willing to pay for, then they can find another job. I am sure there will be plenty of peolple willing to take their place.

      As bad as the public employess union members are, the teachers are worse. They are self-centerd, money hungry, and don’t give a rats ass about their students, nomatter what they say. What other job besides congress, do youu get 2-weeks off for CHRISTMAS, a week for spring break, nearly every holiday, and the entire summer off in addition to personal days and sick days. The rest of us shouldbe so lucky. What a rackett. And they never stop whining like selfish children for more. Don’t look at their overall salaries, look at their hourly rate for a true comparison. Teachers work on the order of 1440 hour per year, while the rest of us are required to work a minimum of 2080 hours a year. So when you divide their salry by the annual hours you get pay rate on the order of $40-50 per hour or more. How many people do you know that are making those kinds of wages? And don’t give me the BS about how they have to take work home at night like gradeing papers. ther rest of us professionals are often required to work 50-60 hour work weeks for no additional salary including weekends. And besides, how much homework do your kids actually have anymore? All fo this for an outcome that is sinking fast as compared to the rest of the industrialized world. They say that “Those who can–do. Those that can’t–teach,Those that can’t teach–become school administrators ,And those that can’t administer–run for the school board.” And thus is the crux of the problem. Ii call it school system incest.

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    • Treaty
      Posted on April 2, 2011 at 5:31pm

      BecksADweeb, you admire Rachel Maddow and Markos Zuniga and you’re criticizing this woman why?

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    • Now this is Art
      Posted on April 2, 2011 at 5:53pm

      arent these the same tactics that the mafia uses? oh, btw, how many korans do we need to burn until all the muslims kill themselves off?

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    • waggie
      Posted on April 2, 2011 at 5:58pm

      GO Dawn!

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    • Bum thrower
      Posted on April 2, 2011 at 6:04pm

      What you have is those “in the wagon”, and those “pulling the wagon”; those “in the wagon” want more and more and more for doing less and less and less; those pulling the wagon get less and less and less for shelling out more and more and more.

      Think the tipping point has been reached; Cut federal pay by 40-50% and a big dent is made in the defficit. do the same at the state and local level, and a lot of budget problems will go away.

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    • CatB
      Posted on April 2, 2011 at 6:09pm

      Good for her … more people need to STAND UP TO THE UNION THUGS .. including the union members who are being USED by the leadership.

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    • MadinIllinois
      Posted on April 2, 2011 at 6:29pm

      Really, Redneck – you think our “Clown-in-chief” is really that good?! Simple question, – “Is your life better now then it was four years ago”? If it is, then you’re doing something illegal. If you’re like the rest of us, then you’ve noticed that everytime this fool opens his mouth he LIES! He’s a puppet for Soros – stupid!

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    • TXPilot
      Posted on April 2, 2011 at 7:12pm

      I think with the union behavior as of late, the jingle of the future is “Dont accept the union label”…..I have nothing against the union worker in general, but I don’t want my money going to support their managements shameful and Communist agenda.

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    • 229Mick
      Posted on April 2, 2011 at 7:20pm

      Which is the key word in the phrase “Teachers Union”? It’s Union. They care about the union. They don’t care about the teachers, they don’t care about teaching. They care about the union. And sadly they’ve got a whole lot of teachers still tricked into thinking that they should care about the union too.

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    • ginsberg
      Posted on April 2, 2011 at 8:07pm

      Companies like enron, tyco, arthur anderson, and halliburton have repeatedly robbed anf bullied the american taxpayer, yet beck doesnt talk about that and focuses on made up crap about union bullies. Yeah those scary people trying to make 50,000 a year after 20 years of work, they are really the problem. Beck is a lier, nothing more than a corporate schill.

       
    • grandmaof5
      Posted on April 2, 2011 at 8:52pm

      SLEAZYHIPPO, I guess you finally got out of the hospital, hope you are doing well.

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    • glenng2
      Posted on April 2, 2011 at 11:09pm

      Trouble is we don’t need another organized crime family, Your commander in grief organizer is destroying your nation, just like the Unions destroy American jobs and companys, but we know you leftest liberals like buying red chineese goods made by yoour commie buddys.

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    • Therightsofbilly
      Posted on April 3, 2011 at 1:39am

      Becksadweeb wrote:
      “She’s exactly what I imagine most you here at duhBlaze look like”

      @dweeb

      She looks like a PATRIOT to me, so I’ll take you “comment” as a compliment, thank you.

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    • Therightsofbilly
      Posted on April 3, 2011 at 1:41am

      Edit to read: Your “comment”

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    • Aegis
      Posted on April 3, 2011 at 9:47am

      We (Tea Party/Conservatives) need to organize like the union THUGS and fight back!

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    • tifosa
      Posted on April 3, 2011 at 10:55am

      EDITORS, you must have read this, (the examiner appears to be a fave source) why no thread? http://www.examiner.com/conservative-in-chicago/judge-re-mcpier-no-interference-collective-bargaining

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    • tifosa
      Posted on April 3, 2011 at 11:07am

      Union members (firepersons, policepersons, teachers, construction workers, those in utilities, telecommunications, and transportation industries, etc) are paying attention to who is saying what. Will they remember this in 2012? :)

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    • jhaydeng
      Posted on April 3, 2011 at 11:23am

      What cracks me up is that the guy‘s who do stuff like this are guy’s that are on the “out of work list‘ and don’t realise that they are doing this because there is no work. If they took the time to find out why business is not hiring they would re-evaluate the circumstance they are in and second guess the reason for them approaching a “dollar store”.

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    • S G Applebee
      Posted on April 3, 2011 at 3:37pm

      We need a WASTE Czar: 4 minute video.
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMSXwxLeCu4

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    • Mikeyyy
      Posted on April 4, 2011 at 1:38am

      It really baffles my mind that Unions are like elementary school bullies. I hope the majority of the people rise up against their evil practices.

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    • hologram5
      Posted on April 4, 2011 at 8:21am

      He’s more in the lines of a community ORGAN GRINDER, actually methinks he’s the monkey with the hat.

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