LETTER: Stop already

To the Editor:

How many ads can $25.3 million buy? We are finding out as we are relentlessly battered with negative, false and misleading ads – ads paid for by out-of-state billionaires who care nothing about Wisconsin, but very much about consolidating their political power and increasing their net worth.

Think for moment. Would anyone give Scott Walker that kind of money and not expect something in return? Of course not. These billionaires have an agenda, and Walker is carrying it out. How? By taking down voters most closely aligned with the opposite political party: middle and lower income wage earners.

These are voters most likely to oppose tax cuts for the very rich and subsidies for businesses with billion dollar profits. These are voters most likely to demand stronger regulation of Wall Street. These are voters most likely to insist on a safety net for those in need, and a promise for the future with Social Security and Medicare. These are voters who will invest in public education as a foundation for economic prosperity. These are voters who believe planet earth is our home, to be kept environmentally safe from greed or recklessness.

How do we know attacking this voting block is the agenda? From Scott Walker himself. Taking a $510,000 check from billionaire Diane Hendricks, he assured her that his sustained goal was “to divide and conquer.” And this means? Just what he has always meant: Break the public sector unions first, then go after private sector’s. Break apart our state. By manipulating the truth, Walker could pit worker against worker, neighbor against neighbor, friend against friend. By name-calling, he could set up a false enemy: union bosses, union thugs.

Just who are these union bosses he keeps talking about? No one ever says. Thirty thousand non-union bosses did the work to get recall petitions signed; 1.9 million people signed them. They weren’t union bosses, nor were a majority of them even union members. And no Badger deserves to be called a thug.

The ads can stop. We already know the false game this governor has played.

Mary Meiser

Eleva

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