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Suffrage in Wisconsin 8 21 2026

Suffrage for the primaries occurred in Wisconsin. Francesca Hong, the democratic socialist, was not a winner. Instead, David Crowley will be the candidate taking on Tom Tiffany for governor of Wisconsin.

Tiffany looks like he is trying to suggest he is not beholden to out of state interests, when Richard (Dick) and Elizabeth (Liz) Uihlein, the billionaire co-founders of Uline, primarily reside on a large 22-acre estate in Lake Bluff, Illinois..

They together from out of state have given the maximum allowable individual direct contributions to Tom Tiffany’s campaign allowed. The Uihleins donated millions of dollars (including $4 million specifically reported during critical 2026 pre-primary fundraising windows) to the Republican Party of Wisconsin, which in turn transferred over $6 million directly to Tiffany’s gubernatorial campaign. Under Wisconsin law, political party committees can make unlimited transfers to candidates.The Uihleins also contributed massive sums—such as dual $500,000 donations—to auxiliary groups like the Wisconsin Federation of College Republicans, which subsequently channeled funds into Tiffany’s campaign.

Hong did not run television advertising in her campaign to lead the state as governor. She came very close to winning, but Tony Evers supported David Crowley, who ran TV ads, resulting in Hong’s loss .

Tom Tiffany on his website says:

” From serving as a Town of Little Rice supervisor to representing Wisconsin in Madison and Congress, Tom has fought for Wisconsin at every level of government. He knows how to make government work for the People, not the elite. He has balanced budgets, secured our borders, and never backed down when it came to putting Wisconsinites first.

“Wisconsin gave Tom everything: a chance to raise three daughters, start a small business, and live the American Dream. But today that dream is slipping away under Democrat leadership in Madison, and four more years of the same could turn Wisconsin into another Minnesota or Illinois, where families are crushed by rising taxes and opportunities fade.

About: Tom Tiffany for Governor

When as we can see he is financially supported by Uihlein’s millions, and the same people he supposedly says he is having trouble with are living in suburban Illinois, “ where families are crushed by rising taxes and opportunities fade.” Tiffany tells us.

Perhaps taxes are higher in Illinois than Wisconsin, but that didn’t stop Tiffany from gladly taking the millions which he used for TV attack ads against Hong from Uihleins. They even spent millions on ads supposedly run by Hong, the likes of which she never did or supported.

It looked pretty ghetto. We’re not done with Tiffany yet though. The 11.5 million dollars given to Tiffany and the Wisconsin Republican Party also contained 2.5 million dollars from Diane Hendricks.

“Diane Marie Hendricks (née Smith; born March 2, 1947) is an American billionaire, businesswoman, and conservative political donor.^[2][3] She is the widow of the late businessman Ken Hendricks.^[2][4] She is the largest political donor in the state of Wisconsin.

Wikipedia Diane Hendricks.

She is also Wisconsin’s richest woman.

Donald Trump

“Hendricks served as an economic advisor to Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign.^[19][20] Across the 2016 and 2020 election cycles combined, she donated $1.4 million to the Trump Victory committee; in 2020 she also gave $4 million to America First Action, the principal pro-Trump super PAC that cycle.^[3] Hendricks contributed a total of $1.1 million to Trump’s 2020 presidential campaign.^[21] As of 2023, she had contributed $5 million to the super PAC Make America Great Again, Inc.^[22] She spoke on the last night of the 2024 Republican National Convention, where she was listed as an “everyday American” by convention materials.^[23] A 2026 Wall Street Journal report identified Hendricks as the third-highest known donor (and highest non-corporation donor) to MAGA, Inc., at $27 million since the 2024 election.^[24]”

Other Republican candidates and committees

“She also supported Paul Ryan.^[13] In 2014, she donated $1 million to the Freedom Partners Action Fund, a pro-Republican Super PAC created by the Koch Brothers.^[25] In both 2015 and 2016, she donated $2 million to Freedom Partners Action Fund.^[26] In the 2016 U.S. presidential election, she gave over $5 million to the Reform America Fund, a super PAC which opposed Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton and supported Republican U.S. Senator from Wisconsin Ron Johnson.^[27] In 2015, she gave $5 million to a PAC associated with presidential candidate Scott Walker, of which $4 million was ultimately refunded.^[28] Prior to Scott Pruitt’s resignation as head of the EPA in July 2018, she donated $50,000 to the Scott Pruitt Legal Expenses Trust.^[29] Hendricks contributed $2,800 to the 2020 primary campaign of Georgia representative Marjorie Taylor Greene

WIkipedia ibid

Granted she is from Wisconsin, her primary residence is listed here. I don’t know if it’s like the Uihleins, who own property in Wisconsin, as well as Florida, etc., but reside in Illinois But here is another billionaire supporting Tiffany, who uses the money to buy attack ads on cable television.

Yet Tiffany tells us he is not in favor of the elites and will “make government work for the people.”

Well, the rich people… He obviously doesn’t mind taking their money.

Perhaps we will get another Donald Trump out of Tiffany, a casino owner promising a fair shake for the proletariat, if you support capitalism. We have seen Trump’s bourgeoisie enriched by billions from Middle Eastern oil money, all channeled through crypto currency, a business of pure speculation. There isn’t even a commodity being speculated on, like a tool or something. It is wealth speculating on wealth, a gross display of capitalist power.

Given the choice David Crowley looks more honest. We know him here as the Milwaukee County Executive. He is not a billionaire, David Crowley’s campaign funds come heavily from labor unions—which account for nearly half of his contributions—alongside a mix of major individual donors from within Wisconsin and a strong base of grassroots small-dollar contributors.

He is less in the pocket of out of state capitalists. He also is urban, and could be able to run industry like the port if there was a crisis.

It’s too bad Hong lost, for governor I say David Crowley will do.

Nicholas Jay Boyes

Milwaukee Wisconsin

American Democratic Republic

8 21 2026

The current condition of society, modern culture, is a relatively recent phenomenon. It was only 1865 when it became illegal to own a human being.

It is hard to say that when slavery was present it was not a stage of barbarism. Slavery has its roots in the barbaric period of society, primarily in the mid to upper levels of barbarism. It would seem that black slavery was the higher stages of barbarism, eventually replaced by capitalism.

A slave was not paid. That is the most basic essence of slavery, the slave worked for a master who owned him, and was used as forced labour. In the east slaves were used for domestic purposes, for instance by the Muslim Arabs until fairly recently.

“Slavery was formally outlawed in Saudi Arabia in 1962 by a royal decree from King Faisal.”

Google search: What year did Saudi Arabia abolish slavery?

Christianity and Islam have much in common. Slavery was practiced in the New World from its discovery by Europeans. It lasted about 400 years; Spain and France were Catholic countries; clearly the ideology of the slave master was Catholicism.

The British practiced slavery in the New World too, they were Protestant Christians. Canada was the exception, black slavery was never practiced there. But the practice was present in America, and continued unabated for 91 years after independence.

The revolution did not abolish slavery. The feudal system of economics reigned supreme, with slavery practiced. Society was still barbaric. It wasn’t until 1863 slavery started to end.

It was replaced by capitalism; it was cheaper to hire a freeman to create commodities than a slave. Slaves escape, and when this occurred the owner was out the value of money he paid for the slave. They also had to be fed and clothed, and it was cheaper to have a freeman paid as wage labour than to have a slave to labour.

But barbarism is still partially present in capitalism. The practice of part of the day being worked with no pay may be an advancement from the whole day’s labour being unpaid, but the practice of working for a master and not being paid part of the day has lingered on into modern society.

It is precisely this relationship that capitalism is based on. It is rooted in the upper stages of barbarism, patriarchal society. The arrangement common to barbarians, slavery, was present in the New World. The slaves were for labouring on large farms, as opposed to Arab domestic slaves I mentioned earlier in this article. Domestic slavery took place in the New World too, but working slaves were more common in the west.

The lower stages of barbarism were a more civilized arrangement. Native Americans owned little property, and hunted and fished as a means of living for thousands of years before the upper stage of barbarism reached them, when Spain, France and Britain arrived. What they found was a matriarchal society with no state, at least nothing like what we know of as the state. There was little property, and no fraud or extortion. Society was organized in gens, familial and tribal. A good description of this is found in Friedrich Engels The Origin of the Family, State and Private Property.

The upper stages of barbarism also practiced genocide. Extermination of the native Americans can hardly be considered civilized. To qualify that though, the Holocaust should show us just how far we are from barbarism. Clearly we are still in the upper levels of barbarism.

Ecological society comes at and after the late stages of barbarism. Part of this is when the mechanism that creates the surplus value is uprooted, when the state machinery is placed in the museum. The state is the mechanism which, paid for with surplus value, the class structure is maintained. It is slowly going away, as less and less people own property, like joint stock company paper.

Another form of barbarism is the practice of polluting air and water by non metric industry. And it should be obvious the Republican bourgeoisie are still most connected to ownership of these primitive operations, periodically bailed out by the state.

Legal rights to pollute the ecology are a part of barbaric modern culture. Although pollution is inevitable, barbarism and modernism condone it.

An ecological society will outlaw pollution altogether, recycling and composting are part of this. These two movements came about out of ecological necessity rather than as a surplus value producer for capitalists. It may cause pollution to recycle, but it is a recognition of man’s effects on ecology to attempt to remove pollution. It does not condone pollution, rather accepts it as inevitable sometimes. Making it legal leads to modern ideas of trading carbon emissions, in other words condoning pollution, just making the more primitive pollution causing factories to have to pay for the right to pollute the air and water. The fact it is traded on the stock market should be enough to tell us where this is going. Society will no longer condone any pollution, but it will still pollute the ecology, the pollution will not be traded on the stock exchange, speculated on to create a profit.

The feudal system of property, when it was acceptable to own a human being, is only a little over a century away. In Asia minor it is only 63 years away. Modern society still retained wage labour; work for a master with no pay for part of the day. Ecological ideas came in the late modern period. Society will come to relate to ecology as a process of symbiosis, rather than as a source of resources to be exploited by capitalism for surplus value.

Nicholas Jay Boyes

Milwaukee Wisconsin

American Democratic Republic

9 17 2025