From Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Demonstrators were carried out of the Assembly by police Thursday as Gov. Scott Walker’s administration again closed and then reopened the building to the public.
About 11:30 a.m., the statehouse was opened after police cleared the Assembly so the body could vote on Walker’s bill on union bargaining.
After protesters said they were willing to risk arrest to block a vote, police began escorting or dragging some of them out.
“Shame! Shame! Shame!” demonstrators shouted.
Taylor Tengwall, 21, of Duluth, Minn., said, “They grabbed me by the shoulders and took me out.”
The statehouse did not open at 8 a.m. Thursday, which is the time it is supposed to open for business. The Assembly is scheduled to convene at 11 a.m. to take up the bill to repeal most collective bargaining by public employee unions, a measure that has sparked massive protests and drawn international attention.
Administration Secretary Mike Huebsch said he wanted to open the building up. But first, he said, he wanted demonstrators to clear out of the Assembly antechamber, gather on the ground floor of the rotunda and allow themselves to be checked with metal detecting wands.
But so far demonstrators in front of the Assembly said they don’t want to leave. Several dozen protesters gathered earlier in the morning in the antechamber and have filled the narrow hallway leading to the office of Assembly Speaker Jeff Fitzgerald (R-Horicon).
Those protesters told a Journal Sentinel reporter they had no plans to leave, which sets up the possibility of arrests and a delay of Assembly action. They said they could be checked with wands without having to leave the antechamber.
“We’re prepared to do whatever it takes to kill the bill or shut it down,” said Daniel Ginsberg of Milwaukee, an organizer with Students for a Democratic Society.
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