Okay, it’s a shoo-in for my favorite of the day, but there were plenty of others I loved:
What Would Bob Do? (reference to Fighting Bob LaFollette)
Dread Scott
I Blame Favre
In Russ We Trust (alongside Feingold for Governor)
If You Can Read This, Thank a Teacher
It’s too bad the people who could run this state are too busy teaching
You can’t scare me, I teach Middle School
Don’t refudiate our education
The Superbowl was won by a union
Unions: thanks for the weekend
This private sector bitch supports unions
. . . & for me, seeing the wildcat emblem of the IWW, a portrait of Joe Hill & calls for a General Strike = priceless. Seeing so many unions out was amazing too: AFSCME, Iron-workers, Fire, SEIU (my grandma’s), and an immigrants rights’ group were shouting Si Se Puede until they were hoarse. My favorite chant? What’s disgusting? Union Busting! But the much more direct kill the bill was chanted to drown out the other side whenever they started trying to defend Walker’s power grab.
The attendance by Tea Partiers is greatly exaggerated. I’d say it was maybe 1:100. Really, they weren’t even a blip: a lone guy with a sign here, a group of five there, & then a kind of gauntlet on the way into the building, but that was it. The mood was peaceful, celebratory, determined, and full of joy and music. The 4PM rally started with the singing of “God Bless America”.
No riots, no thugs.
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