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What was cost to protect right-to-work demonstrators, Capitol building last month?
Mlive.com ^ | January 04, 2013 | Tim Skubick

Posted on 01/04/2013 4:43:09 AM PST by cripplecreek

Your tax dollars were hard at work but so far nobody knows how many were spent to deploy 500 Michigan State Police officers to guard the state capitol and Right to Work demonstrators last month. Five hundred is darn close close to half the entire force.

“I’m waiting to find out,” advises Inspector Gene Adamczyk, who was calling the shots on that historic day when 12,000 angry protestors showed up to battle for and against the RTW legislation that was eventually adopted and signed by the governor.

The inspector says there were times when “we were hanging by the skin of our teeth” as the protestors moved in and out of the Capitol building.

Clearly outnumbered, the MSP forces were augmented by officers from the East Lansing and Michigan State University police departments. Mounted troops on horse back were also on hand from the Ingham and Clinton County Sheriff’s departments. No price tag on how much that cost either. (BTW they count officers on a horse as one, not two cost items.)

Officials are also waiting to do a debrief, or a “hot wash” as they call it, to ascertain what went well and not so well. The inspector describes it as a chance to have a “family” discussion, which could come this month.

When asked for his analysis, he will say, “I was very pleasantly surprised at how well it turned out.” Everyone knows it could have been a nightmare as it was in Wisconsin, where a similar pro-labor demonstration cost the cheeseheads somewhere between $400,000 and $7 million in repairs.

One early estimate here had the figure at around $1,000 with 11 arrests and a hot dog stand that got trampled in an outburst on the capitol lawn.

To get some sense of what the taxpayer hit was, when they brought the Super Bowl to Detroit, the tab was $700,000. The All-Star baseball game in the same city was about $100,000.

Whatever the final number, the inspector concludes protestors and the building were protected and it was “a big victory,” he asserts. Anxious to hear how much the "victory" cost.


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: michigan; rtw; union
Tim Screwloose is a liberal suddenly concerned about how taxpayer dollars are spent.
1 posted on 01/04/2013 4:43:19 AM PST by cripplecreek
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Tim Skubick is suddenly worried about Michigan taxpayers. The comments ae special as always.

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2 posted on 01/04/2013 4:46:00 AM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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Tim Skubick is suddenly worried about Michigan taxpayers. The comments ae special as always.

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3 posted on 01/04/2013 4:47:04 AM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: cripplecreek
Everyone knows it could have been a nightmare as it was in Wisconsin, where a similar pro-labor demonstration cost the cheeseheads somewhere between $400,000 and $7 million in repairs.

The numbers came in over the $7 million mark. It is easy to document repairs. I don't believe that number includes the police overtime (The police were sympathetic o the bad guys and worthless. They were paid to watch. Throwing the imaginary $400K number is completely disingenuous.
4 posted on 01/04/2013 4:50:29 AM PST by Dr. Sivana ("C'est la vie" say the old folks, it goes to show you never can tell. -- Chuck Berry)
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To: cripplecreek

Send the bill to the unions - they are the reason that security was needed.


5 posted on 01/04/2013 4:54:55 AM PST by meyer (Proud member of the 53%.)
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To: Dr. Sivana

Guys like Tim Skubick would be happier if they had burned the building to the ground. Then he would have written that it was wrong for them to do so, but their anger was righteous.


6 posted on 01/04/2013 4:59:04 AM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: cripplecreek

“the inspector concludes protestors and the building were protected and it was “a big victory,”

Yeah, who cares about those pesky Americans for Prosperity folks. So long as the building was protected from damage we can all be satisfied.


7 posted on 01/04/2013 5:12:44 AM PST by CSM (Keeper of the Dave Ramsey Ping list. FReepmail me if you want your beeber stuned.)
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To: cripplecreek

Governor needs to bill the Unions, and all the school districts that allowed the useless teachers to call in sick and close school districts for what a protest. It was like the protest were going to change the minds of the Senate and Representatives who already approved the bills, that had to go to each other for final approval before the signing by the Governor.

Just wonder if Odumbo in DC had a hand in the protest, send the One the bill too.


8 posted on 01/04/2013 5:24:40 AM PST by hondact200 (Candor dat viribos alas (sincerity gives wings to strength) and Nil desperandum (never despair))
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To: cripplecreek

Whatever the cost, send the bill to AFSME.


9 posted on 01/04/2013 5:32:42 AM PST by FrdmLvr (culture, language, borders)
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To: cripplecreek

Whatever it cost, send the bill to AFSME.


10 posted on 01/04/2013 5:34:32 AM PST by FrdmLvr (culture, language, borders)
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To: cripplecreek
One early estimate here had the figure at around $1,000

Is this Democrat math?

For 500 police, plus County police?

Libs really are demented. the "early estimate" was exceeded in the first five minutes.

11 posted on 01/04/2013 6:04:37 AM PST by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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“(T)he MSP forces were augmented by officers from the East Lansing and Michigan State University police departments. - Interesting that there no officers from Lansing, where the capital is actually located. Perhaps this has something to do with Virg B?


12 posted on 01/04/2013 7:04:50 AM PST by a.c.t.32
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To: a.c.t.32

There are a few different jurisdictions at the capitol. I know the state police are charged with protecting the building and those inside but the grounds are a different jurisdiction.


13 posted on 01/04/2013 7:16:58 AM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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I'm not an MLive fan, but I clicked on the article to see if Skrewbick mentioned that the union thugs were, you know....actually violent and there to intimidate.

He didn't. Amazing, such fine "reporting"......

The comment section was wild, like a flame thread on FR with both libs and conservatives name calling. One lib commenter tried to claim the conservative who was attacked threw the union supporter on the ground unprovoked. LOL (sort of, it was a pathetic example of one lone person's idiocy showing us how bad America's ability to find truth has become, and how difficult it will be to win the long war)

14 posted on 01/04/2013 7:38:20 AM PST by Lakeshark (!)
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Thanks cripplecreek.


15 posted on 01/04/2013 8:30:43 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
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