Letter to the Editor, Sheboygan Press
Published March 15, 2025

My wife tells of her dad Russell loading his family, their dog Gypsy and four furry guinea pigs into the family station wagon in Massachusetts and heading West for his shot at the California Dream.

Fresh from the great carrier battles in the Coral Sea and around Midway and Guadalcanal, he and his shipmates knew the American Dream didn’t get better than life and liberty in the port cities of Seattle, San Francisco and San Diego.

His death spared him seeing Californians, too busy living the dream to maintain it, delegate it all to bureaucrats who created chaos and bureaus to increase their authority. He didn’t see their prosecutors refuse to enforce the little laws, allowing his golden cities to spiral into the squalor of today’s San Francisco and the smoking dysfunction of the City of Angels.

By then, it was too late for them. Bureaucrats had seized their Supreme Court and ordered them to shut up or ship out, because they really worked for the bureaus, not the reverse as had been taught in the old civics books their schools no longer used. They found themselves residents, not really citizens.

Now, Wisconsin, which had used Walker’s ACT 10 to escape bureaucratic control, is back in their crosshairs. If they can get Susan Crawford, notorious opponent of Act 10 and even voter ID, elected to form a majority of our Supreme Court, the Wisconsin dream will evaporate, too.

We need to elect Brad Schimel to keep Wisconsin Dreamin’.

Art DeJong

Sheboygan