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Liberal In Texas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-03-11 08:09 AM
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Scott Walker smuggles ringers into the capital for the legislative session
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The Awl's Abe Sauer is at the Wisconsin state house with press credentials, and he describes the scene after rogue governor Scott Walker defied a court order and violated state law by locking the public out of the capitol. But then something even weirder and creepier happened: a cadre of out-of-town ringers in suits were smuggled into the gallery through the civil defense tunnels to bleat their approval for Walker's budget proposal:

http://www.boingboing.net/2011/03/02/scott-walker-smuggle.html

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