What is this passionate farmer, Tony Schultz of Athens, WI, doing at a rally against Gov. Scott Walker's budget? He is fiery and eloquent as he talks of the shared values of farmers and unions and ties the struggle all together.
Watch him, and imagine him as a candidate on the stump. He's dynamite. Meanwhile, there's this report from the Capital Times, as Walker -- surprise! -- sides with realtors and developers over farmers and conservationists:
Farmland will be less expensive to develop and harder for farm families to permanently protect under a series of proposals in Gov. Scott Walker’s budget.
The governor’s plans to eliminate the farmland conversion fee and a farmland preservation program still in its infancy gut key components of the Working Lands Initiative. The moves hand developers a victory and deal conservationists and those who want to keep farmland in the family a blow.
Every day, Walker helps grow the coalition working to defeat him and his policies, and more and more people realize we are in this together.