Let’s Act Now for Lyndee

If profit, financial gain, is the true bottom line or key result area (KRA) for every successful business or corporation, would it not be correct to assume that most commercial newspapers, including this newspaper, will ultimately write the story, print the add, or ask the question to serve that end? Isn’t it the truth that the newspaper’s number one customers are really their shareholders? Of course this is true of our radio and television companies as well.

This fact makes even more courageous what the Wisconsin State Journal did back in 2001. The Journal was the first to publish the Caucus allegations which ultimately sparked criminal charges against several lawmakers in our State legislature.

I believe that most Wisconsin citizens believe that the profit motive should stop at the entrance to our State Capital. The bottom line or KRA for our legislators should be solidly, and always, based only on the public good - what is in the best interests of the people of Wisconsin? Certainly the Journal’s editors know this. If you too really believe that this is the way it should be, then please call your state legislators today and tell them that you want them to pass public campaign financing now.

We need to do this before the series of caucus prosecutions end, and before things at our Capital return to what was before. I propose that we put a face on this fight for public campaign finance reform. Who better that our courageous whistleblower, Lyndee (Wall) Woodliff. Let the banners read, “Let’s do it for Lyndee.” Let's do what Lyndee Woodliff did. She cared enough for the people’s democracy that she gave up a secure job so that you and I could be represented fairly and justly. (See the Journal’s Monday story, “Whither the whistleblower?”) Call your legislators now, and tell them, that you too, like Lyndee Wall, have had enough!