stop

William Cronon, a professor of history at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, posted a blog on March 15 in which he detailed the historical connections of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) to the extremely problematic anti-union legislation in Wisconsin and across the nation right now. A few days later he received notification from Scott Walker, Republican governor of Wisconsin, via email of an Open Records Law request made for emails sent from his University of Wisconsin email address from January 1, 2011, to the present. Based on the terms being searched for in the emails requested, it is clear that this is an intimidation tactic being employed by the Wisconsin Republican Party as an attempt to undermine and discredit a scholar and citizen who is critical of the party’s current legislative agenda.

Cronon has a full and detailed explanation, interpretation and history of this conflict on his blog, linked above. PLEASE GO READ IT RIGHT NOW. It includes the full email notification from Walker, as well as an explanation of how this is an attack and an intimidation tactic.

ONCE YOU HAVE READ IT: SPEAK OUT. GET ANGRY. BE HEARD. This is not just an attack on one man, but a party’s complete disregard and disdain for its citizens, constituents, and critics. This is NOT how democracy works. And moreover, it is DISGUSTING. Let the Wisconsin Republicans — and Republicans all over the country — know that this culture war is UNACCEPTABLE. We are in a time of economic crisis, when people need jobs, need food, need support and help from their government. Instead of focusing on creating jobs and using the government to provide support for our citizens, Republicans are only interested in fighting a culture war that would strip women, unions, minorities, CITIZENS of their rights and their access to health care, jobs, insurance, benefits, and success. We MUST fight back.

PLEASE REBLOG THIS. SPREAD THE WORD. THE REPUBLICANS WANT A CULTURE WAR? WELL, THEY BETTER PREPARE BECAUSE WE’RE READY TO FIGHT BACK.