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Originally Posted by Riot
"Union thugs" ??? - LOL Who are they physically beating? Way to go with the hyperbole.
Try a far more accurate description: "free market solution" or "voting with your feet and dollars".
It was independent firefighters that started that boycott of M & I Bank, before any of the unions got involved. They were in Madison to protest, and all went into the bank and withdrew their money - about $200,000 worth that afternoon. The bank closed that afternoon in fear of a run.
It was so successful, that everyone else picked up on it.
People are completely entitled to use whatever merchants they wish - and to boycott those whose behaviour they do not like. Worked for Glenn Beck.
Merchants in Wisconsin, who donated to Republicans, are not going to get certain people's business. It's a simple as that. Donation lists are public.
Let the people decide. That's the pure capitalist way 
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My definition of a thug or a bully is someone who threatens someone if they do not act in the way that the thug or bully demands them to. Your definition may be different.
Also FYI- $200k to M&I (now Harris Bank a canadian bank) is really nothing and already I am positive that republicans have deposited more money into that bank to offset it.
No one boycotted North Shore Bank(local WI bank) when they and governor Doyle ran a government subsidized home buying program for illegal aliens. Why not, because the media didn't pick up on it and the democrats weren't losing their precious campaign funds from a union.