Look For The Union Scapegoat Label, Part 4

PolitiFact has hit the right with a Pants On Fire liar alert on the supposed $7.5 million cost to clean up the Wisconsin State Capitol after union protests.

While urging a judge to scale back protests, a state Department of Administration official said the state Capitol sustained $7.5 million in damage. State officials could not immediately provide a basis for the number, and later backtracked from it.  The new estimate: $347,500, some 20 times less than the original one. And there are indications that even that could be high.

This smells like an effort to pour gas on the anti-protester fire. The claim was ridiculously high. And that gets a Pants on Fire rating.

Gosh, you mean Republican state officials would flat-out lie in order to paint union protesters as "thugs" and "criminals" in an effort to destroy unions and hurt the Democratic party in the state?  I'm shocked.



Yeah, but it's all about the state's deficit.  Right?