Ryan Seven end occupation out of respect for police
Post by Jesse Russell on 8/18/2011 5:17pm
Constituents occupying Rep. Paul Ryan's office in Kenosha have left the building after negotiations with police officers. Upon leaving the office the protesters made statements to those who'd been picketing outside. They gave accolades to the Congressman's staffers for being "amazing" and "polite." They said they chose to leave out of respect for the police officers who alleged the department is currently short staffed.
However, they had very few positive comments for the District 1 Representative. The constituents were disappointed that Ryan, after allegedly sending the same form letter to anyone who requested a meeting during the August recess, couldn't be bothered to pick up a cell phone during the protest to schedule a face-to-face meeting. They ended the rally by saying they planned to come back tomorrow. More on this story following the links below:
Unemployed occupy Rep. Paul Ryan's office; demand an audience
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Jesse was born and raised in Connecticut, began blogging in 1997, and moved to Madison in 2003. In 2005, he co-founded dane101 along with Kristian Knutson and Shane Wealti. In addition to helping nearly a dozen contributors run this website he's helped launch various events in the city including What's Your Damage?!, the MadPubQuiz of Awesomeness, the Fire Ball Masquerade, Dane101's Freakin' Halloweekend, and more.
Why start something if you
Submitted by PaulRyanLixTaint (not verified) on Thu, 2011-08-18 22:31.
Why start something if you didn't have the balls to see it through? Sorry to be critical, I mean I am not doing anything better, but why start something if you don't have the balls to see it through? I know police are scary, or maybe they were really friendly with their puppy dog eyes asking you to "please step down, we are understaffed".
This is really just embarrassing. While the Democrats have the moral high ground they give it away by acting like pussies.
Paul Ryan sucks a big Johnsonville. But I fear, he will at least have the balls to see his plan for world (or at least US) destruction through to the end.
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It depends on what the true
Submitted by Daniel (not verified) on Fri, 2011-08-19 08:01.
It depends on what the true goal of the protest was. Was it to get arrested? I don't think so. Was it that they really wanted to meet with the Congressman? I don't really think so. Was it to bring attention to the fact that he isn't holding town halls and is instead charging $15 per head and, maybe, holding a teleconference? I think that was their actual goal and that goal they achieved. 100 people showing up to protest outside of a Republican legislators office only achieves media attention if they're wearing pointy hats dangling tea bags in their faces. These folks clearly needed to up the ante in order to get the news trucks and, likely not coincidentally and is not mentioned in this post, shortly after a local news truck arrived is when the protesters walked out "with respect for police."
Update on The Ryan Seven
Submitted by Ann Longo (not verified) on Tue, 2011-08-23 11:47.
Congressman Paul Ryan's staff has threatened to have the Ryan Seven arrested this morning if they do not leave his office rather than wait for him to see them. The Ryan Seven have been accused of keeping Paul Ryan's staff from doing their work and ‘dealing with constituents’. Sounds like if you are unemployed, you are not a real constituent!
Their goal is not to get arrested, it is to get Paul Ryan to represent his constituents!
Oddly enough, this news is not important enough for actual news agencies to cover. Go figure.
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