Union Goons Storm Restaurant- Attack Owner and Threaten Republican Lawmakers (Brown, politicians)

[KoobleKar]

Ohio Union thugs stormed the Easy Street Cafe last night where a group of Republican lawmakers were dining. The union thugs attacked the owner and staff, then threatened the Republican lawmakers. Police had to be called to remove the thugs.

The Columbus Dispatch (http://www.dispatchpolitics.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2011/03/04/copy/senate-bill-5-drama-spills-into-restaurant.html?adsec=politics&sid=101 - broken link) reported:

a group of five to 10 union supporters angry about the passage of the bill hours before burst into the restaurant and began shouting.

“The group was agitated and they were shoving the owner, and he had nothing to do with this.”

LaRose said it didn’t take special intelligence training to notice that while the lawmakers were eating, a woman walked past the window several times, poked her head in the door and got on her cell phone.
“It was planned,” LaRose said. “They gathered as a group and waited until they had about 10 people before they caused a disturbance.”

[SourD]

Typical iron fisted Stalinism.

[Frank DeForrest]

Were they wearing brown shirts?

[oz in SC]

What did the restaurant owner do to provoke them?

I know he must of done something.....

[Moth]

You gotta love the new civility.

[KoobleKar]

Obviously, the restaurant owner and politicians provoked them in SOME way.

Union folk are like the nicest people on Earth.

[carterstamp]

Actually, the restaurant owner and staff blocked the (R) Senator diners, which led to the scuffle. If you're going to report it, get it right.

And, no, I do not think they should have disrupted the entire restaurant to get a point across to the Senators.

Union supporters disrupt GOP state senators' restaurant meal | The Columbus Dispatch

"...After the vote on Senate Bill 5, seven Republican senators, including President Tom Niehaus, R-New Richmond, grabbed dinner at the Easy Street Cafe. As the lawmakers neared the end of their meal, a group of five to 10 union supporters angry about the passage of the bill hours before burst into the restaurant and began shouting.

The commotion eventually led to pushing and shoving with the restaurant staff and owner, before police arrived to calm the situation as a police helicopter hovered overhead. No senators were involved in the physical altercations, and no charges have been filed.

[mb1547]

From your link:

"Moran, who is married to a top researcher at the Ohio Republican Party, was unapologetic."

So it was a republican union member who made a stink?

[KoobleKar]

Originally Posted by carterstamp

Actually, the restaurant owner and staff blocked the (R) Senator diners, which led to the scuffle. If you're going to report it, get it right.

I DID get it right:

The union thugs attacked the owner and staff, then threatened the Republican lawmakers.

[oz in SC]

When the group burst into the restaurant, the woman, Monica Moran, deputy director of public affairs for SEIU District 1199, raised her hands in the air, yelled "Can I have your attention?" and then shouted "something nasty," LaRose said. Soon after, the rest of the group of men and women joined in with a chant.
"They stormed through my dining room," said George Stefanidis, owner of the Easy Street Cafe. "I told them they had to leave, and they wouldn't."

Stefanidis said he called 911 when the protesters refused to leave. LaRose said there was pushing and shoving with the restaurant staff. Meanwhile, someone on the outside slapped an anti-Senate Bill 5 sign on the window near where Niehaus was sitting.
"I understand their argument, but they should do that some other place," Stefanidis said. "It just ruined the whole night."
He said about 70 people were in the restaurant, at 197 Thurman Ave., at the time.

Union supporters disrupt GOP state senators' restaurant meal | The Columbus Dispatch