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    quickhits: Wisconsin’s decidedly pro-worker flag confuses writer for Politico. Talking Points Memo: When President Obama spoke to workers in Wisconsin last week, Politico accidentally made itself the story. The paper’s reporter mistook the Wisconsin state flag for the seal of a local union, and cited it as an illustration of President Obama’s pro-union bias. Politico cleaned the egg off its face by wiping the story from the Internet. But the gaffe made the rounds among actual union officials in the state and now that the laughter’s subsided, they’ve turned it into a membership drive. “When national news blog Politico came to Milwaukee to cover Pres. Obama’s visit, they incorrectly identified the Wisconsin flag as the “flag for the local union, Wisconsin 1848.” Many people got a chuckle at the embarrassing mistake, but we think it really represents something larger,” reads a new AFSCME petition. “So let’s say it loud and say it proud! Join as a charter member of ‘Wisconsin Local 1848’ today. We’ll share up-to-the-minute information on statewide issues that affect us all.” I’m getting me the t-shirt. In Politico’s defense, the flag is all about workers. It features a great lakes sailor and a miner and references farmers and factory workers. Our mascot, the badger, is also a reference to miners (lead and tin were once big industries here). Even the name of our football team, the Green Bay Packers, refers to dockworkers on the shores of Lake Michigan. This is historically a very pro-worker state. So, when Politico said the flag was a labor flag, that was pretty much on the money. The mistake was in thinking it was the flag of a single union. It’s the flag of all Wisconsin workers.

    quickhits:

    Wisconsin’s decidedly pro-worker flag confuses writer for Politico.

    Talking Points Memo:

    When President Obama spoke to workers in Wisconsin last week, Politico accidentally made itself the story. The paper’s reporter mistook the Wisconsin state flag for the seal of a local union, and cited it as an illustration of President Obama’s pro-union bias.

    Politico cleaned the egg off its face by wiping the story from the Internet. But the gaffe made the rounds among actual union officials in the state and now that the laughter’s subsided, they’ve turned it into a membership drive.

    “When national news blog Politico came to Milwaukee to cover Pres. Obama’s visit, they incorrectly identified the Wisconsin flag as the “flag for the local union, Wisconsin 1848.” Many people got a chuckle at the embarrassing mistake, but we think it really represents something larger,” reads a new AFSCME petition. “So let’s say it loud and say it proud! Join as a charter member of ‘Wisconsin Local 1848’ today. We’ll share up-to-the-minute information on statewide issues that affect us all.”

    I’m getting me the t-shirt.

    In Politico’s defense, the flag is all about workers. It features a great lakes sailor and a miner and references farmers and factory workers. Our mascot, the badger, is also a reference to miners (lead and tin were once big industries here). Even the name of our football team, the Green Bay Packers, refers to dockworkers on the shores of Lake Michigan. This is historically a very pro-worker state.

    So, when Politico said the flag was a labor flag, that was pretty much on the money. The mistake was in thinking it was the flag of a single union. It’s the flag of all Wisconsin workers.

    (via pacifus)

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      Wow. That is quite sad,
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