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Madison Teachers’ Union Gets Death Threat

Republican legislators in Wisconsin aren’t the only ones getting violent threats. On Thursday, Katherine Windels pleaded not guilty to making death threats to Republican state lawmakers. Her crazed threats have gotten a lot of media attention.

But what hasn’t gotten attention is the ugliness directed against labor.

“We’ve gotten a lot of threats,” says John Matthews, executive director of Madison Teachers Inc (MTI).

MTI received a death threat on April 15.

“You’re all going to die. I’m going to kill you. I’m going to kill you,” said a man’s voice calling from the (252) area code, which MTI saw on caller ID. That area code is in North Carolina
The man called about ten times that day, according to a summary prepared by Matthews. One of those times, the caller said, “This is the evil conservative who’s coming there to kill you.”

He also called the woman who answered the phone some ugly names, such as “retard” and “gay.”

Matthews notified the Madison police, and that afternoon, Officer Richard Wipperfurth came over to the offices of MTI. While he was there, the man called again. “The officer answered the phone,” says Matthews’s memo. “The officer told the man that he needed to stop calling MTI. The officer told him that we were feeling threatened, and if he did not stop calling MTI, he would put a warrant out for his arrest.”

A few minutes later, the man called again and left a voice mail message that said, “I can’t believe you called the cops.”

Officer Howard Payne, a spokesman for the Madison police department, confirmed that Wipperfurth went to the MTI offices and answered the phone when “a man with a Southern accent” called back and was raising his voice. Once Wipperfurth returned to the police department, “he did a number of traces through the Internet and criminal intelligence,” but couldn’t verify a name to go along with the number, says Payne. Wipperfurth also contacted local law enforcement in North Carolina, but they weren’t able to trace the number to a particular individual, either.

“This officer went through a number of things to try to locate someone who was responsible for making these phone calls, but was not able to do so,” says Payne.

At the moment, the case is on a detective’s desk, Payne says.
http://bit.ly/haJvnkRepublican legislators in Wisconsin aren’t the only ones getting violent... more

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Union to employees: Save money, boycott Florida and Ohio

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How To Fix Hollywood’s Obsolete Residual Payments System

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Newstalgia Reference Room - The State Of The Unions In 1969 | Newstalgia

Looking at the Labor Movement 42 years ago. A lot has changed, but not much.

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Labor History You Should Learn

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Workers protest Florida Governor Rick Scott

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Clerk Kathy Nickolaus’ Fuzzy Math Doesn’t Add Up in Wisconsin Race

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Thousands of Zombies March In WI Searching For Missing GOP Brains

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Running From the Law: Trouble in Wisconsin for Republicans

The Republicans in Wisconsin, led by the hubris of Gov. Walker, have made a real mess of things for the state, the people, but also for themselves. With Governor Walker’s entire career hanging in the balance, he and the Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald attempted to push through the anti-union bill late on a Friday night, without notice to the public. Now the Republicans are on the run from the law.

When a judge ruled that it appeared the plaintiff in a case against their passage of the bill would prevail, and so ordered the bill not to be published into law, the Republicans violated the court order by having it published by another entity. The judge came back with a second court order. The cowboys said they were going to do as they pleased in spite of the court order, but then the judge clarified her position and suddenly the boys got into line. Third time is a charm, apparently.

And so the bill is not law yet. The judge is now hearing testimony about how the Republicans originally passed the law and it’s clear they have violated the open meeting law, as alleged. They are now claiming legislative immunity in order to avoid the lawsuit.

Currently, the judge is only hearing testimony on the open meeting law challenge. After this, there is the violation of a court order, the violation of the state constitution in the original legislation, the failure to have quorum, and a likely conspiracy charge regarding the pressure put upon another body to publish the law against their wishes– among other hurdles they face. Right now, the judge is looking into their claim that their meeting was an emergency meeting, but the testimony so far as well as empirical evidence via Walker’s press conferences on the subject make it appear as if they deliberately misled the Democrats and the people. Conspiracy and deliberate and multiple violations of the open meeting law are not small matters.

As far as the issue before the country trial court right now (where all litigation begins, contrary to the conservative smear going around that county trial courts have no business interfering in the legislative process; the court system is a check and balance on both other branches of government and this is exactly how it is supposed to function), the violation of open meetings law, there are several factors being weighed. Republicans claimed it was an emergency meeting that did not need to meet the requirements for open meeting laws under a special senate rule. So the questions are: 1) Was it an emergency meeting. 2) Does the senate rule apply. 3) Was notice given. 4) Was access provided. The access question involves several factors as well: General access to the Capitol as well as access to the assembly chamber and then lastly, as the Republicans took the meeting in a small private room and shut the door (itself a violation of open meeting laws).

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http://www.politicususa.com/en/running-law-wisconsin-republicansThe Republicans in Wisconsin, led by the hubris of Gov. Walker, have made a real mess... more

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