Remember back in 2009?  When the Tea Party rally came to Saint Paul, did its business, set about the task of changing Minnesota and the US, and paid their own bills – which, naturally, launched a round of conspiracy theories as to who paid for the materials and porta-potties and so forth?

Well, “Occupy MN” certainly hopes you don’t.  The weeks-long excellent adventure for college “progressives” and superannuated hippies has cost you, the over-taxed Minneapolis and Henco taxpayer (and let’s be honest, probably the rest of us too)  a quarter of a million dollars

The cost of Occupy Minnesota protests is starting to add up for Minneapolis police. Tuesday afternoon, Sgt. William Palmer says the total cost to the Minneapolis Police Department is closing in $100,000.

Palmer says the city has had to pay $43,500 for approximately 726 hours of overtime. “While the MPD has worked proactively to reduce overtime this year, these hours were unavoidable,” said a statement from Minneapolis police.

Additionally, Minneapolis police say approximately 1,245 hours have been spent in the planning and support of the protest prior to the overtime. The cost for this time is approximately $56,000, according to numbers released by Minneapolis Police Department.

Minneapolis is broke, remember?

And Henco is on the hook too:

These costs are only for the Minneapolis Police Department.

Hennepin County officials said Tuesday their costs for supervision and management is $152,295.

Let’s start chanting.

“They Are The One-Hundredth Of A Percent Of The 99%!”