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If Keith Olbermann were still doing his Worst Person feature, it’s a fair bet that WI Sen. Glenn Grothman would take home the gold, along with Gov. Walker and a host of Republicans bent on breaking unions. The Wisconsin protests are heating up, with penalties having been handed down to the 14 Democrat representatives who are wisely AWOL, and what is accurately called Republican Class Warfare getting more ugly by the day.
The real people speak out in defense of their extended and uncomfortable stay in the State Capitol building, and the attempts by Sen. Glenn Grothman to marginalize them with broad generalizations and name calling. Polls show that most people agree with their fight for collective bargaining. Dismissing and calling firefighters, teachers, nurses and other hard-working members of the middle class ‘slobs’ is winning no converts to the Republican’s heavy handed tactics.