Bullying

There are all types of bullying. Today, my home town got a first hand look at political bullying. All of our democrat leaders bailed out a couple weeks ago and headed to Illinois because they don't like the right to work bill. Union workers have been protesting every day at the State House. The republicans threw the bill out and promised not to bring it back into play this year. The Democrats say they think the republicans are lying. In the meantime, no one is working.
Anyway, today there was a public rally at the state house. We were informed yesterday that traffic could be brutal today because there could be 20 to 30 THOUSAND protesters! Well, as it turns out, that information came from union leaders who were just trying to scare the hell out of everybody. We ended up with about 8000 demonstrators. Nothing to sneeze at, but a far cry from 20 to 30K. Anyway, one of the local stations got a hold of the flier sent to union workers, that went something like this;

The rally took place just as thousands more packed into downtown Indianapolis for the Men's Big Ten Basketball Tournament, just blocks away. In fact, demonstrators hoped the rally would cause gridlock downtown and reinforce the importance of their cause.In a flier organizers stated "this will help us jam things up downtown. If we can take up as many parking spaces as possible people will complain. This will impact businesses, and the Chamber causing them to tell their friends in the General Assembly to do whatever it takes to keep these people from tying up the town like this."

First of all, since they already threw the bill out, this was all just so much pomp and circumstance. But besides that...doesn't that sound like bullying to you? AND blackmail? I really do like seeing democracy in action, but this is ridiculous. Y'all are a minority for a reason. It's called "voting", you know, where your constituents (the folks who pay your salaries by the way) decide to keep you or fire you?