Ticketed for honking at Wisconsin gov every day
September 13, 2011 2:22AM
Republican Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker speaks to the press in Madison on Monday, Feb. 21, 2011. Walker's office admitted Wednesday that he was pranked by a caller claiming to be a supporter.
Updated: November 9, 2011 4:47PM
MILWAUKEE — A Wisconsin state employee says his daily horn honking outside Gov. Scott Walker’s house in Wauwatosa is a matter of free speech.
But a Milwaukee County judge doesn’t see it that way.
A state trooper ticketed 36-year-old Azael Brodhead for noise violations after he drove by Walker’s house day after day, week after week, blowing his car horn, sticking his middle finger out of his sunroof and shouting “Recall Walker.”
Brodhead, a probation agent upset with Walker for trying to break up public employee unions, told the trooper he was simply exercising his First Amendment rights.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported a judge last week found no precedent for constitutionally protected horn honking and fined him $166.20.
Police said Brodhead used repeated profanities as he was ticketed, such as saying the troopers protected the “piece of [expletive] governor” and saying “your boss is a [expletive] [expletive].”
Brodhead still makes his daily drive past Walker’s house to shout his protest. Only now, he doesn’t use his horn.
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