Ryan: Madison Protest 'Like Cairo'
The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reports:
House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan compared the protests in his home state of Wisconsin over Gov. Scott Walker's budget plan to the pro-democracy movement in Egypt.
Ryan, a Republican from Janesville, made his comments on MSNBC's Morning Joe program. In the Wisconsin state capital, teachers and labor union supporters swarmed the Senate chambers today to protest a bill that would strip most public employees of nearly all their collective bargaining rights.
"It's like Cairo's moved to Madison these days," Ryan said on MSNBC. "All of this demonstration ... it's fine. People should be able to express their way."
Ryan defended Walker, a friend and fellow Republican, for trying to get state workers to pay part of their health insurance and pension benefit costs, as their counterparts in the private sector do.
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