with preferred or supreme. my money. my choice. my meineke. look at this, it s a sign of just how tense things have gotten in the political standoff over wisconsin s budget. that s a member of the state assembly being wrestled to the ground as he tries to enter the state capitol in madison. the building has been closed to the public and police officers are trying to keep him out. now, milroy later said that he was aggressive in trying to enter the building and that s a quote, aggressive, and that law enforcement were in his words aggressive as well in trying to keep him out. the republican wisconsin governor is threatening to lay off state workers if there is no deal soon and he s trying to balance the state budget by cutting spending and restricting
take one more look at this videotape. this one where wisconsin state assemblyman nick milroy is tackled on his way into the capitol yesterday. gets brought down to the floor by a uniformed officer. this will not be obvious from the tape, and in a way a small part of the story, but the guy tackling mr. milroy is not a member of capitol police, he is not even from the police department in the city of madison where the state capitol is. the guy who tackled that state rep is from the police department in the town of two rivers, which is about 150 miles away from the state capitol. he was on special duty in madison this week. even as governor walker was prepping 1500 layoff notices to state employees today, the governor has also been staging an extraordinary display of public sector man power at the capitol, calling in police officers from across the state to quiet the capitol building,
milroy. he was trying to get to his office last night and having it end that way. this is what scott walker s fight has done. this is what scott walker and the republicans have done to the state of wisconsin. they declared they are not willing to negotiate, they are not willing to talk. so they locked everything down to stop the opposition and the state capitol looks like this. the next images republicans threaten we will see are images of democratic senators being brought back to the capitol in handcuffs. the republican leader in the senate reportedly raising the prospect yesterday that republicans could hire private security, aka, bounty hunters to arrest them and force them to do what the governor wants. remember the stand with scott idea that the republican governor s association rolled out a few weeks ago? you have a choice, america. the democratic party as