Saturday, May 21, 2011

Nevada Students Need To Learn From Wisconsin Students

This is too funny.
From the Las Vegas Sun: The student campers who briefly constructed “Sandoville” on the lawn of the Legislature came to Carson City last week looking for a fight.
Angry at Gov. Brian Sandoval for his unwavering insistence on cutting millions from the education system to avoid a tax increase, the students organized by liberal activist groups wanted to send a strong message.
Some came with the idea of stopping traffic on the main highway through Carson City or blocking the legislative parking garage.
Convinced that those measures would simply antagonize lawmakers and the public — and probably result in some arrests — the students ditched those plans.
Instead, they decided they’d do a sit-in at the governor’s office, refusing to leave until Sandoval met with them. But the governor was in Las Vegas on the afternoon they had planned the sit-in.
So, again, their civil disobedience plans were scrapped. That led them back to the Legislature, where they regrouped and plotted ways to provoke intransigent Republican lawmakers into having a conversation with them.
In the end, the 60 or so student protesters left Carson City — after weathering freezing temperatures, rain and snow in poorly equipped tents — without the aggressive confrontation they had sought.

http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2011/may/21/doughnuts-nice-theyre-no-promise-raise-revenue/
Wow, what a bunch of liberal wimps.
But who helped feed the students?: Rather, they were plied with doughnuts by the governor and pizza by the mining industry. Republican lawmakers sat on the floor in the hallway of the Legislative Building and had that conversation. And traffic flowed freely in and out of the parking garage.
And according to the story, the Democrats gave nothing.
Nevada students need to go to Wisconsin and see how things are really done.
Too funny.


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