It's really awful - you don't want to go NEAR our City/County Building. The people who work there have had bums defecating in the hallways and in their offices! The Mayor does nothing.
Rumor has it many city/county workers are filing a lawsuit over this. As well they should.
But the irony is Oh, So Sweet - unlike the trash and poop and booze bottles scattered all over this TAXPAYER FUNDED PUBLIC PLACE!
Even temporarily giving up booze, drugs and feral animal behavior in return for a night's sleep in a shelter is not an option?
Mayor Soglin (Retread, Hippie Party) VETOES action which would add homeless’ people as a ‘protected class.’
“The present public policy of compassion for the homeless with no rules is a failed policy which does not make life better for the homeless community or for the rest of the city,” Soglin said.
Supporters of the change took particular issue with Soglin’s third assertion in the veto, arguing that other classifications in the ordinance like marital status or source of income also change over time and that adding more protection doesn’t remove other people’s protections.
“I’ve heard that argument before, or that criticism that there’s so many so everyone’s protected. My response is that everyone should be protected,” DeMarb said. “This basically calls out and gives rights to those that have been discriminated against.”
Ald. Marsha Rummel, who sponsored the measure, agreed, saying the city would not be diluting people’s rights by adding more protected classes.
“I just challenge that assumption,” she said.
The liberal mayor of liberal Madison is upset about the homeless??? But liberals want us to be compassionate about the homeless and let them p8##$ and s##-$ and sleep wherever they want, to prove how liberal and compassionate we are. Liberals are against clearing out homeless encampments because that is perceived as cruel to the downtrodden homeless peoples. This story is rich in irony,LOL.
THESE PEOPLE WILL NOT STOP.....IT WILL NOT STOP!
HA! Indeed.
If Section 8’ers have the right to crash a private pool party in McKinney, TX, then how does Soglin expect he has the right to demand these same types of individuals be kicked out of City Hall?
Even aging hippies have their limits
Wasn’t Soglin a big time leftist agitator back in sixties and seventies?
One begins to understand how death squads get started.
Well, I’m going to stand up for Soglin. Did he help create the current situation? Well, yes, I suppose if you consider his activist days decades ago, but actually Soglin is a good guy. Is he a misguided liberal? No question about it. But he is a lot less liberal and a lot more reasonable than the old caricature of him would lead you to believe.
The Marxists really don’t like Soglin, just look at the fact that he’s almost always at odds with those buffoons on the city council and county board. The reason Soglin is mayor-for-life in Madison is very simple. All the business types know Soglin and trust him. He is, in fact, a very reasonable and practical guy.
To wit, his now ongoing crusade to get the bums off the municipal building is direct evidence of how far he is from his caricature. And, Soglin is right on this.
These guys don’t want housing, they are brain-addled anarchists and bums. Soglin knows that if this is not fixed - soon - the city will become a mecca for all Midwestern bums. He saw what happened when Madison opened its doors to all the dregs of Chicago and he isn’t going to have an even worse repeat act.
The MENTALITY of the LIBERAL LEFT on display.
I remember the Madistan libs lauding their Red Bike Project years ago that let people use an unoccupied bike that was painted red to pedal free around the isthmus. Then after about a month, all the red bikes were in disrepair, with the few functional ones being monopolized by the homeless. Major lib fail.
I went to High School with Soglin in Highland Park, Illinois, though he was 2 classes ahead of me.I remember he went to Madison in the mid-60s and became a big political player there, playing the champion of anti-war hippies/students, and getting elected Mayor while very young. FINALLY all his chickens have come home to roost.
But isn’t that a ‘sanctuary city’?
Soglin, intolerant reactionary ! #HomelessLivesMatter !