WHO are the thugs?

Supporters of Republican recall-bound Senator Luther Olsen "forced" their way into a private Democratic function--a Thursday night rally for Baraboo Democratic Rep. Fred Clark, who will be taking on Olsen in the recall election.  The GOP backers who burst uninvited into the room, held signs and reportedly shouted at Clark, who was addressing his supporters during a non-public meeting in a room rented by the Sauk County Democratic Party. 

The GOP'ers said the disturbance was the Democrats' fault, not the fault of those who crashed the event. "This gang is very good at instigating events and then pointing fingers the other way,"  said Sauk County Republican Party Chair Tim McCumber, speaking of the Democrats.  McCumber, believe it or not, was actually one of the event crashers.  More info here and here.

As party chair, McCumber says on the party website that his group believes in "the right to American liberties as established by the US Constitution."  He may want to look up the First Amendment part about the right of the people peaceably to assemble.

Could this have been foreseen?  The slogan for McCumber's unsuccessful bid for the 47th Assembly District in 2010 appears to have been, "Already fighting for the 47th." 

Now it appears he's fighting for the entire Republican Party.