If there is a Heaven, my Great Grandfather Thomas Jefferson Cunningham is either crying or shaking his fist or probably both. He was a loyal union Democrat who worked in the cabinet of Progressive  Wisconsin Governor Robert “Fighting Bob” LaFolette. Wisconsin was a pioneering state in worker’s rights. T. J. was born in Brooklyn after his parents arrived at Ellis Island from Ireland. As a young man he traveled to Wisconsin with a portable printing press and started a newspaper. He loved his family. He loved his country. He loved the dignity of working people.

MAKE NO MISTAKE:

When Scott Walker says he’s fighting for the Wisconsin tax payers, he means he’s fighting for them to foot the bill for tax dodging billionaires and corporations. He’s fighting for them to loose their union rights, their education system, their police and fire protection, their health care, and yeah, that means their reproductive rights too. He’s fighting for middle class tax payers to turn against other middle class people still in unions. He wants the workers no longer in unions to say: “Hey, we’re fucked, why shouldn’t you be too?” He’s fighting to, as he said in his own words, “divide and conquer” the middle class.

If you’re interested in seeing Scott Walker’s vision of America, take a look at South America.

MAKE NO MISTAKE:

End of Unions = end of the Democratic  Party = Karl Rove’s dream of Corporate Fascist single party rule in America made reality for generations.