From Breitbart Occupy LA turned out to be a lot more costly to the city than originally anticipated. After the park surrounding LA’s City Hall was cleared by the LAPD in November, published estimates suggested the total cost of the two month occupation would be about $2.3 million. A new report released Friday by the [...]
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Occtrocites: Taxpayer-paid clean up edition
From Marathon Pundit The messy–in many ways–Occupy movement, which purports to represent the “99 percent,” once again leaves it to the taxpayers to clean up yet more disarray. WSMV-TV in Nashville is reporting that the occupiers there left their mark. So much so that a chemical power wash is needed to clean up after Occupy [...]
US taxpayers paying to clean-out porta potties at Occupy DC
From Gateway Pundit Your Tax Dollars at Work… Rep. Joe Walsh (R-IL) questioned the Mr. Jonathan Jarvis, Director of National Park Services during an Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee hearing yesterday. During the questioning, Walsh played a video from the #Occupy DC criminal camp at McPherson Square where occupiers reveal that the National Park Service [...]
Taxpayers stuck with the bill for OWS porta-pottie rental
From Weazel Zippers Absurd. Via Washington Whispers: America’s taxpayers, already on the hook for watching over the Occupy movement’s three-month seizure of Washington’s downtown McPherson Square, are getting stuck with another bill to cover the police protection and port-a-potty rentals at today’s Capitol protest. For today’s protest, where several hundred Occupiers toting signs lingered in [...]
Occupy New Haven taxes city budget
From Daily Yale News Occupy New Haven organizers continue to protest what they perceive as corporate America’s costs to society, but over the past several months, the demonstration’s presence on the Green has handed a hefty tab to city taxpayers. Since the protest movement began last October, city officials said they have spent over $60,000 [...]
Hartford spent almost $45,000 on ‘Occupy’ costs
From WTNH New figures show Hartford spent almost $45,000 in overtime for police and public works crews as part of its response to the Occupy Hartford encampment. The Hartford Courant reports more than $37,000 of the cost was for police overtime, including the Dec. 6 action to clear away the activists’ campsite in downtown Hartford. [...]
Occupying the Cleveland taxpayer’s wallet
From the Cleveland Scene Cleveland Municipal Court is having trouble obeying its own procedural rules — at least when it comes to Occupy Cleveland protesters. Ten Occupy members are making their way through the court after being arrested in unison on the night of October 21. All were charged with the same $100 minor misdemeanors: [...]
Occupy Minnesota costing Minneapolis taxpayers $100,000 a week
About four weeks into the “occupation” of Government Plaza in Minneapolis, Hennepin County Sherriff Rich Stanek reported that his department’s cost to babysit the unruly mob has so far amounted to $200,000. The Minneapolis Police Department reported on October 18th that it had spent nearly $100,000 policing the round-the clock protestors. So far a total [...]
Atlanta mayor says occupiers putting city on ‘path to escalation’
From CBS local: Atlanta’s mayor is ready to put an end to the “Occupy” protests. Amid rising costs to keep law enforcement present in and around Woodruff Park, Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed has urged an end to the “Occupy Atlanta” movement, a demonstration that began more than three weeks ago in response to “Occupy Wall [...]
