Posted on 02/20/2011 11:56:46 AM PST by Libloather
La Crosse protester describes Capitol crowds as peaceful
Amy Morgan spent Thursday night on the second floor of the state Capitol in Madison, sharing a sleeping bag and watching "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" projected on the marble walls.
The Capitol's new tenants: Some protesters have made the building their home this week
Hanson is just one of, he estimates, one or two thousand people who have been protesting Scott Walker's proposed budget bill by spending the past few nights sleeping inside the Capitol while legislative sessions bloated by public speakers stretch far into the night. "It's kind of like a weird sleepover atmosphere," he says. "Last night people were watching movies, playing music, throwing footballs around, playing hacky sack. It's a party atmosphere, but it's made up of people who care a lot about this issue."
With no public showers, no lodging area and no food preparation area, the Capitol's temporary tenants have created makeshift quarters, giving parts of the nearly century old building the approximate feeling of the world's most luxurious refugee camp. Blankets, coats and pillows are clumped in otherwise abandoned stairwells and hallways. Granola bars, water bottles and pudding packs are jammed into corners of ornately decorated nooks and crannies on the second and third floors.
I misread the headline as you trying to devise a scheme to score with a commie girl inside the Capitol building!
With all these union thugs scrounging free living quarters during their Destruction of America “rallies”, I’ll bet those “judges” are working their asses off keeping the toilets clean.
Say, my library is a public building. How many days of the year would it be open for CAMPING?
Get some RAID and fumigate the place. Bunch of hippie freeloaders. Sheesh.
” How can I score a permit to sleep INSIDE the Wisconsin Capitol Building for a few days? “
I think you have to be elected....
You can’t score a permit and that’s the problem.
When is law enforcement going to start enforcing the law?
It’s one thing for the democrat senators who fled Madison to avoid voting. It’s another, to deny the remaining senators and assembly members from voting on other issues, because, law enforcentment are not doing their job.
Very odd that “they” are allowing people to live in there like that !
Squatters. What would happen to a just plain taxpaying WI citizen who decided to have say a Tea Party sleep over in the state capitol in Madison? Would the participants receive the same tolerance as is being extended to these squatters who are protected by their unions and the US president? I don’t think so. What good are the security police, also tax paid, if they cannot secure this union crowd?
How is this lawful, I think we have all been wondering? The National Guard in most cases would be ordered in to clear a landmark building particularly a state capital building, not to mention the Fire Safety Marshal.
Why has the governor permitted this squatting?
If you pretend to be a homeless bum, they’ll let you stay at the Capital all the time for free. At least that’s what local radio host Vicki McKenna says happens in the lower levels of the building all the time, the bums hang out there.
If they haven't fled to another state - eh?
A National Historic Landmark filled with ANYONE who wants to sleep overnight. So much for security.
It’s a nice trend though. I’ve a trip planned in a month or so, I’m thinking of camping on the White House grounds instead. Good location, and from pictures I’ve seen not too crowded, though that could change now that it’s open to camping.
Ask for forgiveness
Not for permission
My hero Richard Haliburton wrote the essence of a place was felt at night. He would stay in a restroom or other such place till after closing and then had it all to himself
The Madison capital building actually hosts homeless people in the basement year round. Google around and you’ll find news reports from Milwaukee with photos.
Morgan, a 29-year-old education major at Viterbo University, said she hopes to teach in the Wisconsin public school system after she completes her student teaching next fall, but says her decision will depend on what happens with Gov. Scott Walker’s anti-union budget bill.
“If they’re not treating teachers with respect, then I will have to find a job elsewhere,” Morgan said.
Morgan said she’s protesting not about the money teachers are being asked to sacrifice, but for their ability to collectively bargain over working conditions.
Morgan, a 29-year-old education major at Viterbo University, said she hopes to teach in the Wisconsin public school system after she completes her student teaching next fall, but says her decision will depend on what happens with Gov. Scott Walker’s anti-union budget bill.
“If they’re not treating teachers with respect, then I will have to find a job elsewhere,” Morgan said.
Morgan said she’s protesting not about the money teachers are being asked to sacrifice, but for their ability to collectively bargain over working conditions.
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