Union protestors cost taxpayers $7.5 million in damages
Madison – State officials said Thursday that damage to the marble inside and out the State Capitol would cost an estimated $7.5 million.
Cari Anne Renlund, chief legal counsel for the state Department of Administration, said in Dane County court that estimates of damage to marble includes $6 million to repair damaged marble inside the Capitol, $1 million for damage outside and $500,000 for costs to supervise the damage.
Much of the damage apparently has come from tape used to put up signs and placards at the Capitol.
That’s right. $7.5 million. Contrast this with how much it must have cost to clean up the mess those tea partiers made after nearly a million marchers descended on the west lawn.
Pretty comparable, right?
