By Steve Gunn
EAGnews.org
MILWAUKEE – You think Wisconsin labor leaders might be a bit bitter about Gov. Scott Walker’s victory in Tuesday’s gubernatorial recall election?
Consider the words of Gilbert Johnson, president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Workers Local 82, who addressed an Occupy Milwaukee rally Wednesday, the day after the election.
Maybe Johnson was just peeved off because the massive Big Labor effort to remove Walker from office failed so miserably. Perhaps he was just trying to please his young radical audience.
Or maybe Johnson really believes Walker voters are a “bunch of haters” who advocate for “white man rule.”
“You never see this at a Tea Bag, man,” Johnson, standing before a banner that said “Repeal Act 10.”
“What you have is a bunch of haters, people that tell lies, people that want to go back to the 50s. White man rule. White man only. Here in the state of Wisconsin we have people that lie. They want money and they only care about themselves.
“You know the statistic came out that the minority population would soon be exceeding the white population and all of the sudden we start having fear. And they started (saying) ‘Let’s get guns. And you know, let’s go back to the ’50s ways, where we could just kill people and hang people’ and go back to that time that we tried to get so far away from. That’s what we’re up against.
“We’re up against people … who want to concentrate on those type of things so they don’t have to concentrate on their pocketbooks. In the meantime, they’re voting for someone who’s taking money out of their pockets, but tells them they can have guns and be hateful.”
For what it’s worth, we’ve never heard Gov. Walker, or anyone in Wisconsin for that matter, call for white people to arm themselves or act violently toward minority citizens.
And when it comes to people who “want money” and “care only about themselves,” that sounds more like a very accurate description of Wisconsin public sector union leaders.
Being bitter about an election result is one thing. Accusing an entire state of blatant racism is quite another.
Do the members of AFSCME Local 82 really want a jerk like this to be their president?
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Tags: #Wisconsin, Act 10, AFSCME Local 82, American Federation of State, Big Labor, County and Municipal Workers Local 82, Gilbert Johnson, Gov. Scott Walker, labor leaders, Occupy Milwaukee, recall election
You are stupid trying to always make things a white man black man thing It is about politics and the economy. Thats just great with all the trouble we have in the U.S. you try to start rhetoric about blk and white stick the facts man. stick tot he facts dont obliterate its just plain dumb and combustible
completely agree with Nick. I had never considered this to be about anything but economy and Unions wanting a bigger slice
everything that boss johnson says should be turned around and put on union people, us tea baggers are just the opposite from what he says
You liberals have been letting our material, physical, mental, and spiritual infrastructures fall into decay for 50 years while you take the cream off the top!
Wake up Obama! Your greed party is over! Necessity is the mother of invention; and Obama, and his socialist policies have taken the necessity to get a real job, or take real responsibility for finances out of society, and dumped it on the backs of the people who pay the taxes to support you all cradle to grave!
Boohoo: teachers, firefighters and public workers need to go get real jobs now! We the tax payers are tired of paying for government union, and government official greed!
Job security wasn’t good enough for all you glorified welfare recipients! You all want to retire as millionaires off of those of us who carry you on our backs! Go get a real job! No more farming crime, mental illness, illiteracy, and pot holes for your job security!
The idiots on the left never see the hypocrisy of their own words. A black man complaining about white people getting guns. The best quote was that the white people lie “They want money and only care about themselves.” Sounds to me like that quote applies to the Union leaders in Wisconsin more than anybody else.
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WE ARE NOT BITTER, WE WON THE RECALL. GOV. SCOTT WALKER IS BACK IN OFFICE IN GOD WE TRUST FOR IT AND THINGS WILL BE RUNNING SMOOTHLY FROM HERE ON. WE CONTINUE TO SUPPORT GOV. WALKER. HE HAS GOOD POSITIVE PLANS FOR WISCONSIN, JOB CREATION TO PUT EVERYONE TO WORK, UNION PACK OF CRYING BABIES DON’T CARE ABOUT WISCONSIN BUT POWER AND CONTROL.
Poor libtard brother beeas all mads and sheet.
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As stupid as GJ is, just think how stupid are the people who are clapping for him, or the ones who voted for this clown.