Still Even More Union Thuggery On Display

The umpteenth example of just how the new tone and civility is working with union thugs desperate to hold on to their power and ability to milk taxpayers comes from Sacramento, Calif., during the MorOn.org rallies on Saturday.

A union thug physically assaults a Tea Party counter-demonstrator. The headline poorly describes the altercation as a “shoving match.” It was clearly more than that. It was am assault.

The opposing rallies were divided by 10th Street, west of the State Capitol. All was peaceful, until members supporting unions crossed the street.

An amateur videographer caught a shoving match on tape. The video showed a face to face argument right before Richard Andazola, 28, of Stockton, shoved a tea party activist.

“He bum rushed across the street, came right at us, swung his bullhorn at me, hit me in the hand and then put his hand around my throat and started choking me,” Rodney Stanhope of Placerville said.

The video doesn’t show the choking incident, but clearly shows the shoving. Because of it, Sacramento Police officers cited Andazola for battery.

Andazola tells a different story though.

“He was spitting on me, he’s bigger than me, and I told him to get off of me,” Andazola said. “I was backing up and he was staying on me ’til the point that he spit in my mouth.”

Here’s the video:

Says Chuck Devore at Andrew Breitbart’s Big Government:

I spoke to Stanhope, as he drove to the hospital for x-rays and treatment for the injuries sustained at the rally, and asked him what happened.  Mr. Stanhope said that he was with a group of about 150 Tea Party activists across the street from the MoveOn.org-organized union rally.  A union man with a bullhorn, Richard Andazola, 28, was yelling across the street at the Tea Party activists, calling them “fascists.”

Then one of the Tea Party activists, also bullhorn equipped, replied, “We pay your salary!”

This enraged Andazola, who, according to Stanhope, rushed the Tea Partiers, chanting “Fascists go home! Fascists go home!”  He violently shoved Stanhope twice, the second time apparently striking Stanhope in the throat.

Big Government has video of Andazola ranting like a lunatic, as well as a picture of him receiving his citation, with his Teamsters jacket clearly visible and identifiable.

These people are frightened. They realize that the end is near for their stranglehold over taxpayers’ wallets. They also realize the momentum is to adopt right-to-work legislation for all workers, including those in gummint, and that means the end of the Democrat money laundering machine as well.

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