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29. Damned true ...

Reply to AtomicKitten (Reply #19)

Sun May 27, 2012, 02:33 PM

May 2012

.... But I'll bet many of them are police officers. Police Departments are quasi-military organizations that enforce rigid conformance, and attract personalities who are comfortable in a working environment like that. Progressives probably need to professionalize and reform most departments, before their members will see the political light-of-day and then incidentally start voting for Democratic candidates.

In general, I have been dismayed at how out-of-touch most Wisconsin Union officials are with their own memberships. When the protest effort started in February 2011, it didn't begin to see Union officials speaking up in support for more than six weeks. Disgraceful.

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