In Wisconsin, public sector workers' demonstrations include surrounding GOP State Senator Glenn Grothman in a threatening manner (h/t Dennis Sevakis). The public sector workers are much more violent than any major Tea Party demonstration. The left has repeatedly accused the Tea Party of violence while the demonstrators whom they support in Wisconsin surround and verbally assault elected officials. Compare the violent, abusive anger in Wisconsin and the person screaming, "don't touch him!" (conscious of the legal implications of battery but ignoring that assault is a wrong even if it does not involve battery) with Tea Party demonstrators in Broward County, Florida and Danville, California. My friends at the Kingston Rhinebeck Tea Party tell me that the Washington police have repeatedly told them that Tea Party demonstrations never involve problems of the kind that the public sector employees in Wisconsin illustrate.
I have researched and written about employee benefit issues and in my previous life was a corporate benefits administrator. I am currently associate professor of business at Brooklyn College. I hold a Ph.D. from the Columbia University Graduate School of Business, an MBA from UCLA and an AB from Sarah Lawrence College. I am working on a project involving public policy. I blog on academic and political topics.