Paul Ryan's office calls cops to disperse unemployed protestors

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Paul Ryan's office calls cops to disperse unemployed protestors

by Joan McCarter

Unable to afford the ticket price Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) has imposed on his constituents if they want to talk to him, unemployed people in his district have been staging a sit in at his district office. It was a good idea—how could he avoid talking to them if they were right there?

By calling the cops on them, of course.

Staffers for Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) called police on Thursday evening to disperse unemployed protesters staging a sit-in at his Kenosha, Wis., office, according to the protesters and police.

Two protesters told HuffPost they're unhappy with Ryan's proposals to gut social programs and also his new policy of not holding free public meetings with constituents during the congressional recess.<...>

"People don't realize that they have every right to stand up and talk to their congressman," Shanon Molina, 31, told HuffPost on Friday.<...>

Molina said she and other members of Wisconsin Jobs Now, a coalition of community groups, neighborhood associations and labor unions, organized the Kenosha protest, which at one point on Thursday she said attracted more than 100 people.

"I went there to talk to Paul Ryan," Molina said. "They said he was on vacation with his family in Colorado."<...>

Lt. Eric Larsen of the Kenosha Police Department told HuffPost that Ryan's office called the department around 4 p.m. on Thursday, and that the officers who responded found seven protesters inside the building where the office is located and about 50 protesters outside.

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[KansDem]

1. Is it fascism yet?

[animato]

2. Ryan is a shyster

It must be illegal to charge for this!

[PatSeg]

3. "The Path to Prosperity"?

First, get a job as a congressman.

[tanyev]

4. Ya'll want to talk to your congressman, you got to show him the money.