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Not all the brats were on the grill
Topic Started: Jun 12 2012, 01:11 PM (354 Views)
Mikhailoh
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I didn't know these folks were still around.

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Scott Walker Summit Upsets Women's Christian Temperance Union With Plans To Serve Beer


By SCOTT BAUER 06/12/12 02:26 PM ET







MADISON, Wis. — Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker can't avoid union troubles, even when he's trying to be bipartisan.

Walker invited state lawmakers to a cookout at the governor's mansion after winning a recall election last week that was spurred by anger over a law he pushed through the Legislature effectively eliminating most public workers' union rights.

Now, he's angered the Woman's Christian Temperance Union with his plan to serve beer at the Tuesday cookout designed to help bring Republicans and Democrats together. The WCTU successfully lobbied for Prohibition, which made selling alcohol illegal from about 1920 to the early 1930s, and its 5,000 members continue to spread its anti-drinking message nationwide.

"I don't think it's cool at all," said Rita Wert, president of the WCTU. "It sets a very poor example."

The cookout menu features brats, a local sausage whose name is pronounced "brahts," and beer produced by a number of Wisconsin companies. Root beer from Milwaukee-area brewer Sprecher, which made a special label saying "Moving Wisconsin Forward," also will be served.

Walker pitched the event as a laid-back way to heal political wounds, find common ground and encourage political opponents to work together. Ninety-eight lawmakers, including 37 Democrats, 60 Republicans and one independent, along with about 240 staff members plan to attend the two-hour cookout Tuesday afternoon.

Thirty-four lawmakers have declined the invitation, with at least four publically stating their displeasure with the idea. But their reasons were all tied to politics, not abstinence.

Wert said the problems facing Wisconsin are serious, and policy makers shouldn't cloud their judgment by drinking alcohol.

"That portrays kind of a party atmosphere, and I don't think that's what people want," she said. "It's just really a shame that it has to be that way."




The group raised similar objections in 2009 when President Barack Obama invited a black scholar and the white police sergeant who arrested him to the White House to share a beer and talk about race relations.

Walker spokesman Cullen Werwie said the governor respectfully disagreed with the WCTU's objections.

"In keeping with the bipartisan theme of the event, in this case we agree with President Obama," Werwie said.
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Mark
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Unreal.
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brenda
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I had no idea their group still existed.
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George K
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Finally
brenda
Jun 12 2012, 01:26 PM
I had no idea their group still existed.
Frances Willard, one of the founders (iirc) of the WCTU was from Evanston, Illinois, the home of Northwestern University. In fact, "Willard House" was (and still may be) university housing. It was at the far western end of "sorority row."

Yeah, they drank beer there too. :lol2:
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Willard Residential College is a residential college .[8] It was built as an all-female dormitory in 1938. The dorm was originally named "Willard Hall," after Frances Willard, a women's suffragist and leader in the temperance movement who served as Northwestern's first dean of women. Willard Hall was renamed "Willard Residential College" in 1972 when the dorm became a part of Northwestern's newly inaugurated Residential College program and became the first co-ed housing on campus.
Notable Willard events include Fall Formal (held in the past at such noted locations as the Sears Tower, the Adler Planetarium, and the Chicago Public Library), Polka Party, and Woo-Au Loo-Au (a grill-out noted for its pudding wrestling followed by a plunge into Lake Michigan). Willard is proud to list notable Northwestern figures, including Nicola Beisel, Gary Saul Morson, Carl Smith, and Irwin Weil, among its faculty fellows. Past Masters of Willard include Gary Galbreath, Carl Petry, Dan Garrison, Shep Shanley, and Irwin Weil. Willard is the best and largest residential college at Northwestern University.

Notable alumni include Shelley Long, Julia Louis-Dreyfus (room 420), J.P. Manoux, Seth Meyers, William Bonk, Jeanne Sparrow, David Schwimmer (room 427), Nicole Sullivan, Dave Revsine, Richard Penniston, Richard Kind, and Stephen Colbert (room 114).
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Kincaid
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"That portrays kind of a party atmosphere, and I don't think that's what people want," she said.


Wow, is she ever out of touch.
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Cheers
Women. [shakes head]
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brenda
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As part of a historical character program, I portrayed a WTCU member from our little town. Oh, I had great fun with that. :lol:
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"That portrays kind of a party atmosphere, and I don't think that's what people want," she said. "It's just really a shame that it has to be that way."


If these guys/gals actually partied together a bit more, the government might actually do the people's business more efficiently.
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They can't vote though can they?
He shouldn't have to worry...
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Jun 12 2012, 02:59 PM
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"That portrays kind of a party atmosphere, and I don't think that's what people want," she said. "It's just really a shame that it has to be that way."


If these guys/gals actually partied together a bit more, the government might actually do the people's business more efficiently.
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brenda
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In Minnesooota, legislators used to get together regularly for social events, and it made quite a difference in the level of trust and confidence across the aisle. Rules changed and much of that social time has ended, as has the trust.
“Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.”
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