Politics

Sen. Ron Johnson Booed at Juneteenth Event

WHAT DID HE EXPECT?

He then complained: “This isn’t very nice, is it?”

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Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI), who blocked passage of federal Juneteenth legislation two years ago but relented in recent days, was roundly booed when he showed up at a holiday event in Milwaukee this weekend. A crowd gathered around a GOP booth at the celebration, shouting, “We don’t want you here.” Johnson was clearly annoyed by the response. “You come down here and try to interact with people and be nice to people. But this isn’t very nice, is it?” he said, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, calling the hecklers “nasty.”

Read it at Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

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