State Lawmakers Talk Tough On Twitter About Pack Sitdown

Wisconsin legislators talk tough about Sunday’s response to the president’s call that N-F-L players be fired if they protest during the national anthem. Most Packers locked arms and three players sat as the anthem was played at Lambeau Field — and Gannett’s U-S-A Today Network surfed the lawmakers’ Twitter feeds on this day after. Assembly Republican Jesse Kremer of Kewaskum says he never came back to baseball after the 1990s strike that canceled the World Series — and he’s ready to shut the Packers off, too. G-O-P Representative Ron Tussler of the Appleton area called the anthem controversy a “convenient distraction” from the N-F-L’s “domestic violence and concussion problems.” But Democratic gubernatorial hopeful Dana Wachs called the Packers’ protest a “show of solidarity against prejudice and our divisive president.” And Milwaukee state Assembly Democrat David Bowen said performers have a “real important role supporting justice.”