Is This Any Way for a Senator to Talk About His Constituents?

I heard him Annie! Mr. Grothman obviously has no respect for the people of Madison ... how arrogant was it of him to call American citizens "slobs" ... that Capitol Bld. is THEIR HOUSE ... the people's house ... they pay the darn taxes to keep it there so his butt, butt may enter! And, those who clean it are also public servants doing their jobs ... cleaning it! That is of course, if the maintenance thereof has not been privatized! I find that republicans (lately) are wearing their underware on the outside ... they are truly disrespectful folks! I guess he clearly forgot who the heck the electorate is! There are petitions circulating via emails from Wisconsin grassroots people including all who are protesting ... collecting millions of signatures on recall petitions ... I received one today ... they are planning to file recall resolutions any day now .. on many of the republican reps. By law they must wait for at least a year to call for recall of the governor ... which they also plan to do timely.

...Hi annie, He certainly has no class, Lawrence asked him if he would apologize to the four people who were there, he refused saying they were lovable slobs. He lied because he said the protestors were all college students. What a joke. I hate to call him this but Governor Walker created this budget shortfall by giving corporations 100 million dollars in tax cuts I'm sure to curry favor for donations just like the Koch brothers who are getting plants in Wisconsin with no-bid contracs. Governor Walker should be recalled. God forgive me he is the slob. There is a petition being circulated to recall five Republican Senators and there is a strong possibility they will lose their seats. Fifty-Seven percent of Wisconsin people think that the Governor is wrong. If he were up for re-election he would lose. Corruption personified. Grothman.... it takes a slob to know a slob. The out of town police wrestled a repesentative to the floor when he went to his office in the Capitol building to get his clothes. His own office they would not allow him in. Thugs they acted like. They locked the Capitol building keeping people waiting outside to get in. What a crowd. The GOP is trying to break the unions because they know they support the Dems., get rid of the unions you break the Democrats. But they had better be careful because the people may just turn and decide the GOP is too harse and not vote for them or stay home which is the same thing and the Dems will take the vote. This is all out war. With the Supreme Court handing over Freedom of Speech rights to corporations, they are trying to squeeze the country into a GOP rule. Also those who think he GOP has their interest at heart they don't, they want to control where the money goes and they will be the next ones they come after. Just like they kept health care from the 9/11 first responders, they are cold and calculating. Cheers

These types of people forget what they are there for, who they are working for and should be gotten rid of, how dare they comment on people speaking their mind...I think we all have to start really looking into who we are voting for, make them respect the people who gets them there.

Gov. Walker asked to have the demonstrators leave overnight on Sunday so that cleaning crews could clean the building. They refused, with a spokes person saying that it would be too difficult (the momentum would be broken) to have the people return the next morning. I live in Wisconsin and have visited the capital with my family and have had to leave the building at a certain time because the building was closing for cleaning. The demonstrators refusing to leave tells me they have no respect for others or the state property.

OMG! We have all sorts of shady and and unusual senators here, but I don't think there's one as rude as that! How disrespectful! And of people sho VOTED FOR HIM! Sorry, senator, we "slobs" won't be voting you no more!

I think they believe they can get away with anything, knowing they already have some people who follow them, and all the monetary support they have already gotten from the past. These individuals either truly don't realize or don't care anymore. Think about when they were first introduced to the scene they tried to do anything to gain the ecceptance of everyone and then eventually their true feelings come out.

Annie, there is no evidence that he's talking about his own constituents, since the only ones that are his constituents are the people living in his district. As for the SLOBS! Repairing the damage and cleaning the mess has been estimated at $7 million. They destroyed the finish on the marble walls with duct tape and glue, they leave their garbage where ever they drop it. There are people who haven't taken a shower in a week. Yes, they are SLOBS!!

Strange Annie, you thought it was just fine for a democrat to call his constiutents racist rednecks, yet it somehow offends you when a "republican" calls people responsible for over $7 million in damages slobs? There are people taking a dump in the freaking stairwells in that building Annie. As for him calling "his constituents" slobs, I'm not so sure that these are his constituents. A lot of these people were bussed in by the unions and don't even live in the state. I'm sure MSNBC hasn't bothered to show you how a mob of these people came after him either. Take a look for yourself. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Cx77K8e3WE&feature=player_embedded#at=109

He's a republican, of course you'd vote against him. His conduct unbecoming aside, what would you call protesters that caused 6 million dollars in damage to the capitol building? "Nice, neat people"?

You must have heard only part of what he said. You must not have heard about the approximately 200 protesters who were shouting, pushing and threatening him as he tried to enter the Capitol building. Maybe it was while they were in this close proximity, during their rush on him, that he smelled them. I can't say if they smell or not, I haven't sniffed them. But as some of them have spent much of the last couple of weeks sleeping on the floor of the Capitol building, it's a possibility their showering schedules have been interrupted. As for how disrespectful Grothman was, I probably wouldn't speak respectfully of a crowd of yobbos who were threatening me... but there ya go, it's all a matter of perspective. I guess you also didn't hear him say that it was only some of the protesters to whom he objected and that many of them were respectful, peaceful people. He said ""There were many friendly people in that crowd." Some of the protesters there didn't think it was very friendly: "Tony Castaneda, a musician and middle school coach, told the paper that several people got “squashed” and “pushed” against the Capitol doors. Another protester said it was the first time in two weeks he worried things could have turned ugly." I think that rushing and threatening and blocking the path of a state senator is reprehensible and if the protesters don't want people to think they are street thugs, then they shouldn't behave as if they are. But, there ya go, it's all perspective.

They are slobs. Don't know about the smell and really don't want to but picture after picture shows what slobs they are. Usually a rank smell goes along with slobs. Not only that, but they are acting like slobs. I've stood with people for the right reason and would do it again, but I will never stand with those who act as though their rights supersede mine or anyone else. If these people want my sympathy and support they have to convince me they deserve it and as yet, none of them have.

Anyone leaving garbage all over, crappin' all over, destroying property, etc, will be called a slob or worse by me. Anyone - my wife, kids, parents, grandparents, preschoolers, anyone. There's quite a difference in exercising one's Constitutional right and being outright disrespectful of where they're doing it. This has been par for the leftist protest course - always piles of garbage and plenty of damage after they're done exercising their rights. (Perhaps they need to practice less exercise and actually be exorcised! ) It's about time someone called them on it. Seriously. I can only imagine what sort of things would have been said about the TPers had they caused damaged, used public property as a toilet, threw gargabe around like they simply didn't give a pluck, and worse. One moron who allegedly screamed a racial insult and reportedly spat upon a politician caused a nationwide backlash, yet the evidence was 0 and the man supposedly reporting the incident went into hiding when the validity of the claims were questioned. I'm honestly sad that vile, nasty, careless, disrespectful members of this protest are not being called out. I can see not calling out the entire protest. We can all see that there are many peaceful, respectful people in those crowds. But most media outlets are refusing to tell the story of any of the bad element. Shameful. Shameful. Shameful. So, some people were called "slobs." Well, if the shoe fits! Exercise your rights all day long, but how far can people go until their "rights" cross the line? Setting fires and breaking windows and smashing cars last year didn't seem to cross that line, so it's no surprise that all this damage and pure nastiness wouldn't either. Shameful. A person's politics shouldn't come into play with unruly behavior. Sane people in this nation universally voice their outrage against vile protest groups like the Phelps'. Why isn't it the same for these bought-and-paid-for union thugs whose presence is really a disservice to honest men and women out there peacefully voicing their rights?