I went to school in Wisconsin- four years at the University in Madison where it is colder than I ever imagined cold could be.
The people of the State are not unusually sophisticated. They are like most mid westerners, concerned about their families. They don't have the time nor inclination to read the New York Times from cover to cover or to think about politics in detail. That is why they elect representatives, to represent their interests, the interests that they assume their politicians who live next door to them share and want to see realized.
In up state Wisconsin it is so cold that often the parents of school age children do not go to social functions or even to P.T.A. meetings. They allow teachers to teacher and administrators to administer a Democratic academically sound curriculum.
It is unimaginable that the foundation of their lives, their values of democracy, of taking care of the middle class, of having feelings for and about other people are not being respected. To see their politicians with
Scott Walker at the forefront of this malaise is not only abhorrent to the Wisconsin citizen, it is unthinkable. And although Wisconsin is a Republican State each person seems to remember the great Governor at the turn of the last Century, Lafayette who brought to life the idea that Republican/Democrat means nothing. It is the middle class, the financial emotional wealth of the State that must be realized and maintained, a lesson Scott Walker has yet to learn.
150 thousand strong took over the Capitol last weekend. Next weekend, there will be more and then more and more. And banning the Pizza from Egypt won't stop the Wisconsin citizens from protecting the exercise of their Democratic process. This struggle isn't about which Party rules, it is about middle class values, the right to discuss, negotiate, bargain. Wisconsin isn't a Monarchy/Plutocracy , not yet.
Keep up the good, the great work, Wisconsin. .
Change, it is a coming
even to the U.S.A.
Linda Zises
Reporter at lage
