The " Rally for Hoosiers" is hoping for 25,000 people to descend on the capitol. Like their protests inside the Statehouse for the past few weeks, many say they will continue to demand union rights and protection for the middle class.
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With street construction, and tens of thousands of visitors in town for the Big Ten tournament, some of the labor unions are hoping for downtown gridlock. That's an actual goal. They want supporters filling up downtown parking garages.
In a flier they stated "this will help us jam things up downtown. If we can take up as many parking spaces as possible people will complain. This will impact businesses, and the Chamber causing them to tell their friends in the General Assembly to do whatever it takes to keep these people from tying up the town like this."
Are these people delusional? Somebody actually thinks causing a massive traffic jam and irritating thousands of Big Ten basketball fans is going to win them support? Businesses are going to complain to the Chamber, which will then beg legislators to make the
