Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker

[wiphan]

Originally Posted by Riot

"Union thugs" ??? - LOL Who are they physically beating? Way to go with the hyperbole.

Try a far more accurate description: "free market solution" or "voting with your feet and dollars".

It was independent firefighters that started that boycott of M & I Bank, before any of the unions got involved. They were in Madison to protest, and all went into the bank and withdrew their money - about $200,000 worth that afternoon. The bank closed that afternoon in fear of a run.

It was so successful, that everyone else picked up on it.

People are completely entitled to use whatever merchants they wish - and to boycott those whose behaviour they do not like. Worked for Glenn Beck.

Merchants in Wisconsin, who donated to Republicans, are not going to get certain people's business. It's a simple as that. Donation lists are public.

Let the people decide. That's the pure capitalist way

My definition of a thug or a bully is someone who threatens someone if they do not act in the way that the thug or bully demands them to. Your definition may be different.

Also FYI- $200k to M&I (now Harris Bank a canadian bank) is really nothing and already I am positive that republicans have deposited more money into that bank to offset it.

No one boycotted North Shore Bank(local WI bank) when they and governor Doyle ran a government subsidized home buying program for illegal aliens. Why not, because the media didn't pick up on it and the democrats weren't losing their precious campaign funds from a union.

[Riot]

Originally Posted by wiphan

My definition of a thug or a bully is someone who threatens someone if they do not act in the way that the thug or bully demands them to. Your definition may be different.

I go with the time-tested dictionary definition of the word "thug" (you didn't say bully) which is a cutthroat, hoodlum. violent person. The historical definition of a "union thug" referred to union members who were physically violent.

Because, you know, that's what those words "mean" when they are used.

Also FYI- $200k to M&I (now Harris Bank a canadian bank) is really nothing and already I am positive that republicans have deposited more money into that bank to offset it.

Good for them! That's a free market solution, to which I'm sure you do not have the same objection as you expressed about the people taking money out.

The manger of M & I got a free VP slot at Harris Bank Chicago after the sale

No one boycotted North Shore Bank(local WI bank) when they and governor Doyle ran a government subsidized home buying program for illegal aliens.

Guess people were not as pissed off then, as they are at Walker and the current GOP group up there.